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.
Writing in the journal Sustainability, researchers from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia and Universiti Malaysia Sabah have reviewed current and future perspectives on the reuse of banana peel waste, a major agricultural waste stream.
Writing in the journal Petroleum Exploration and Development, scientists from the China University of Petroleum in Beijing and CNPC Engineering Technology R&D Company Ltd. have explored the development of sustainable and green bio-based flat-rheology drilling fluids.
A paper recently published in the journal Resources, Conservation and Recycling proposed a new mechanism to recover iron and lead from disposal residues of lead-acid batteries (DR-LABs).
In a paper recently published in the journal ACS Energy Letters, researchers reviewed the elimination of cobalt (Co) from lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) in order to improve sustainability-related issues and explore the features of Co-free cathodes.
In an article recently published in the open-access journal Materials, researchers discussed the development of films made from biopolymers that are more environmentally friendly and have improved photooxidative resistance.
Research into utilizing waste products has benefited several industries in recent years, improving their sustainability. Writing in the journal Energies, a team of scientists from Armenia and Poland has investigated the use of waste coffee and alcohol products to produce biofuels.
In a paper recently published in the journal Icarus, researchers studied the basaltic samples recovered from the Apollo 17, 15, 12, and 11 missions using X-ray computed tomography (XCT) to evaluate the emplacement mechanism of lava on the surface of the moon.
Vaccine distribution faces big challenges, as the COVID crisis has shown. Now, a multidisciplinary research team has overcome some of the major issues that plague the distribution of biomedical materials.
In a paper recently published in the journal ACS Energy Letters, researchers demonstrated that reactive metal electrodes could be stabilized by regulating their conductivity using ionically non-conductive substances that form cation-transmissive interphases.
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