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waste management

a) Thin film polycrystalline CdTe (Schottky diode) PV cell, glass side (left) and contact side (right), and b) device structure.

Scientists Turn Nuclear Waste into Electricity with New Micro-Battery Design

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Technology
Infographic: Top 10 Plastic Polluters Ranked. Credit Dr Angeliki Savvantoglou of Bear Bones

Global Plastic Pollution Crisis: Uncollected Waste, Open Burning Major Culprits

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Health
Industrial waste red mud raw material (left) and pelletized red mud catalyst (right)

Innovative Catalyst Turns Industrial Waste into Powerful Tool for Fighting Climate Change

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Technology
Landfill burps from three sites in Florida, such as this one, contain high levels of airborne PFAS, including fluorotelomer alcohols.

Some landfill ‘burps’ contain airborne PFAS, study finds

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Health
sludge pond

Toxic Traces Found in Sewage-Based Fertilizers

Categories Health
reactor process

Chinese reactor mineralizes CO2 with help of coal waste

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Technology
floating plastic bag

Millions of Tons of Plastic Piling Up on Ocean Floors

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment
steel pipes in a warehouse

Transforming Aluminum Production Waste into Green Steel

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Technology
Cocoa pods, like this one with parts of the husk removed for analyses, could be a useful starting material for flame retardants.

Cocoa pods — a source of chocolate, and potentially, flame retardants

Categories Technology
Plastic fork. Pixabay

Nudging food delivery customers to skip the fork drastically cuts plastic waste

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Social Sciences
Dry toilet in Charles Léopold Mayer Foundation for Human Progress, in Paris.

A review of how wealthy societies dispose of their excrement

Categories Social Sciences
Fish raised in closed-containment farms can be coupled to plant cutltivation through a production model known as aquaponics. The researchers have now established a system to treat the hitherto ignored solid waste produced by these fish while also generating biogas from fish waste.

Transforming fish farms into biogas producers

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Life & Non-humans
Stack of diapers

The house that diapers built

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Technology
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