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Revolutionizing environmental monitoring with photonics

Envirotec Magazine

This article contains paid for content produced in collaboration with Hamamatsu. With applications ranging from drone surveys to in-situ soil and water analysis, photonics is enabling more sustainable practices and transforming the way we monitor and protect our environment. Gas Analysis Photonics is also indispensable in gas analysis.

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Inside Eastman’s moonshot goal for endlessly circular plastics

GreenBiz

Inside Eastman’s moonshot goal for endlessly circular plastics. But something extraordinary is going on at this Eastman chemical plant: two breakthrough processes to turn waste plastics of all kinds back into new plastics, continuously, with no loss of quality. Joel Makower. Mon, 05/11/2020 - 00:44.

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Project recycles CDs into flexible biosensors

Envirotec Magazine

Nature Communications has honored the article among its Editors’ Highlights, showcasing the 50 best papers recently published in a research area. The first step is removing the metallic coating from the plastic beneath using a chemical process and adhesive tape. The sensors can communicate with a smartphone via Bluetooth.

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How corporations can jump-start industrial electrification in the US

GreenBiz

Those processes use a lot of energy and largely come from fossil fuels; one-third of U.S. A key route to industrial emissions reductions is electrification (replacing industrial fossil fuels with electric alternatives). For example, continuous cooling of plastics during injection molding can be precisely controlled using heat pumps.

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Hotel Sustainability & Waste Management: Reducing Food, Water and Plastic Waste

Green Business Bureau

Hotels require a vast amount of energy and resources in order to run, and with this comes an equally vast amount of waste generated. This article exposes the flawed system of waste management within hotels and provides practical solutions for reducing three prominent hotel wastes: food, water and plastic waste.

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Recycling firm fined ÂŁ20k following illegal export of household waste from Scotland

Envirotec Magazine

A leading UK and European recycling company was fined £20,000 at Airdrie Sheriff Court on 16 November after Scotland’s environmental regulator, SEPA, uncovered what it described as the largest single illegal export of household waste from Scotland. It was loaded inside 51 forty-foot shipping containers destined for recycling in China.

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Circular economics and the $57B e-waste opportunity

GreenBiz

The plastic waste problem gets plenty of attention, and for good reason: If we continue mismanaging this material as usual, there could be 7.7 Just as stunning: Plastic isn't the fastest growing waste stream the world needs to deal with. . percent of electronics are collected, refurbished or recycled worldwide. Heather Clancy.

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