Every experiment produces results—and byproducts. Plastics, solvents, and energy use add up quickly in research settings, but a growing number of laboratories are showing that waste doesn’t have to be ...

Adding to a run of student-led recycling programs at UC Santa Barbara, fourth-year undergraduate students Kaili Mikami and Lauren Buyalos are helping combat the rising tide of discarded plastics in ...

Two people stand in a laboratory in front of a closed fume hood; each is wearing goggles, a lab coat, and gloves and holds a box of nitrile rubber gloves. Evan Bailey and Caroline Gilmer were inspired ...

ANN ARBOR, MI - The University of Michigan’s Lab Swap Shop has saved researchers more than $1 million in equipment and supply costs in less than two years while diverting 20,000 pounds of materials ...

Despite the planet’s growing plastic pollution crisis, petroleum-based polymers have become an integral part of modern life. They make cars and airplanes lighter and more energy efficient. They ...

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Effective waste management underpins the transition to a sustainable circular economy by turning end-of-life materials into resources rather than discarding them. Strategies range from source ...

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Toyota Motor North America, Ann Arbor, Michigan, has entered a cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory to investigate ...

The US Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy has awarded more than USD19 million to five US companies to research and develop recycling technologies for used nuclear fuel. A dry storage ...

The global surge in electronic waste (e-waste) poses a critical environmental and health challenge. In fact, according to the UN's recent Global E-Waste Monitor Report, “The world’s generation of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A chemistry lab at UC Berkeley says it has devised a chemical reaction that could address much of our plastic waste. (Andrew ...