Tech innovations and Startups
Recycling
Recycling
Hawaii’s innovative approach: transforming recycled plastic waste into roads
Hawaii battles severe plastic pollution, leading researchers to explore innovative solutions. A new project transforms recycled plastic waste into durable asphalt for roads, aiming to reduce environmental…
Paolo Travisi•24 March 2026
Recycling
How AI can cut greenhouse gases…
An AI-powered food recycling system could turn Whole Foods food scraps into…
Erminia Voccia•18 December 2025
Recycling
Eco-friendly breakthrough in Teflon disposal
Researchers in the United Kingdom have developed a sustainable method to recycle…
Editorial Team•23 October 2025
Tech innovations and Startups
Reuse wind turbines in photovoltaic systems, the idea of Turn2Sun
The Swiss startup has patented a unique system that allows to reuse the old blades as…
23 June 2023
Tech innovations and Startups
From Sweden the ecological and delicate recycling of solar cells in CIGS
A new research by Chalmers University of Technology has tested a process at room temperature to…
13 April 2023
Tech innovations and Startups
From China, biorecyclable and biodegradable glass based on modified peptides
A research team of the Institute of Process Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has…
22 March 2023
Tech innovations and Startups
Lexus Design Awards 2023, from eco-tent to soap packaging
Lexus announces four winners of its international design competition that rewards emerging designers and innovators
7 February 2023
Tech innovations and Startups
The transistors of the future could be produced from lignin
Lignin, a paper industry waste, could be a resource to build green and sustainable transistors. A…
23 January 2023
Water
The first filter that blocks 99.9% of microplastics in water
The DGIST research team has developed a porous polymer with photothermal properties that can absorb and…
9 January 2023
Tech innovations and Startups
Enzymatic recycling makes it possible to break down the most difficult plastic
With enzymatic recycling it may be possible to break down more economically the most difficult to…
3 January 2023
Tech innovations and Startups
Biodegradable plastic in a few days
From the chemistry laboratories of the University of Constance a new plastic, developed with "breaking points"…
28 December 2022
Tech innovations and Startups
Lithium-ion batteries: batteries from paper and cardboard waste, the innovation signed NTU
Scientists at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have developed a technique to convert waste paper from…
8 December 2022
Tech innovations and Startups
New solar panels “from black gold” that the photovoltaic industry discards
The European project Icarus is creating modular solutions on an industrial scale to recover 95% of…
2 December 2022
Tech innovations and Startups
Bricks from waste materials can make building sustainable
The Chalker Lab Chemistry Laboratory at the University of Flinders, Australia, has carried out a study…
9 August 2022
Tech innovations and Startups
Chemical recycling: discovered an enzyme to break down terephthalate
A group of scientists characterized TPADO, a special bacterial enzyme that can help the chemical recycling…
6 April 2022
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