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Mashup Score: 5Rebound effects undermine carbon footprint reduction potential of autonomous electric vehicles - 7 month(s) ago
Nature Communications – Autonomous electric vehicles reduce operational emissions but increase manufacturing emissions due to rebound effects. Recycling helps, but their full life cycle emits 8%…
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Mashup Score: 0BD explores plastic blood tube recycling - 11 month(s) ago
BD’s blood tube recycling pilot will evaluate the recycled plastic’s quality and investigate safety and hygiene precautions.
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MailOnline looks at 10 weird and disgusting future uses of human waste, from brickmaking, charging electronics and storing poo in banks for transplants.
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Net carbon emissions from plastics could be negative by 2100.
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Researchers have identified a way to recycle the PVC that is widely used in medical technologies such as tubing and blood bags.
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Mashup Score: 4Ericsson Product reuse services for telecom networks - 2 year(s) ago
Ericsson Product Reuse services for telecom networks equipment, refurbishment, reuse, and recycling.
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According to the United Nations, less than a quarter of all U.S. electronic waste gets recycled. In 2021 alone, global e-waste surged at 57.5 million tons, and only 17.4% of that was recycled.
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Mashup Score: 0Remember all the disposable stuff you used when COVID-19 hit? It made the plastic crisis much, much worse - 2 year(s) ago
The plastics industry lied to us to sell us more masks and disposable bags during the pandemic. How do we turn things around?
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Mashup Score: 4This is how to ensure sustainable alternatives to plastic - 2 year(s) ago
In trying to solve the plastic pollution problem, we may have created another problem: we are replacing plastic with materials that have a carbon footprint up to 3 times higher than plastics themselves, some of which are not even biodegradable in real-life conditions.
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Mashup Score: 2Solvent-driven fractional crystallization for atom-efficient separation of metal salts from permanent magnet leachates - Nature Communications - 2 year(s) ago
Rare earth elements are essential to electrified infrastructure and clean energy production. Here, authors show reagent- and energy-efficient separation of lanthanides from secondary feedstock using dimethyl ether-driven fractional crystallization.
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