We’ve managed to accumulate so much plastic trash that it’s daunting to think about what could be done with the tons upon tons of nonbiodegradable waste. And as much as we are trying to scale back our ...

Waste eucalyptus bark can be turned into carbon material that cleans water, filters air, and traps carbon dioxide using a ...

Researchers have come up with an innovative approach to improve the energy efficiency of carbon conversion, using waste material from pulp and paper production. The technique they've pioneered not ...

Using naturally-occurring resources for construction, such as wood and bamboo, have been used for centuries. Meanwhile, other nature-derived materials like mycelium are only just becoming increasingly ...

With the increasing population worldwide, waste generation is multiplying uncontrollably. Municipalities find it challenging to manage such wastes for further separation, recycling, transformation and ...

Template-Free Fabrication of Nitrogen-Doped Hierarchical Porous Carbons from Waste Oil. The schematic illustrates the transformation process from linoleic acid and melamine into nitrogen-doped HPCs ...

A University of Cape Town (UCT) student may have found a practical response to South Africa’s housing challenges using soil and waste materials. Matimba Mabonda and his team completed a three-bedroom ...

We’ve managed to accumulate so much plastic trash that it’s daunting to think about what could be done with the tons upon tons of nonbiodegradable waste. And as much as we are trying to scale back our ...