Recycling and Waste – PossibleThreat Articles

Turning wood into pharmaceutical ingredients

October 23, 2019 0 Comments Controlled Substances, Diseases and Conditions, Environmental Science, Hazardous Waste, Pharmaceuticals, Pharmacology, Recycling and Waste, Water

Production of hazardous waste during drug manufacturing is a serious concern for the pharmaceutical industry. Typically, large amounts of flammable solvents are used during these processes, which usually require several steps to make structurally complex drugs. Researchers now report a method to produce pharmaceutically relevant compounds in just two or three steps, with water as the only waste product, using renewable woodchips as starting material.

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Embracing sustainable practices would help some winery tasting rooms stand out

October 23, 2019 0 Comments Agriculture and Food, Beer and Wine, Behavior, Behavioral Science, Consumer Behavior, Environmental Issues, Nutrition Research, Recycling and Waste, Sustainability

Wineries in the mid-Atlantic region should consider recycling and encouraging their customers to bring bottles to their tasting rooms for refilling to distinguish their businesses from so many others, according to a team of wine-marketing researchers who surveyed consumers.

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Turning plastic trash into treasure

October 23, 2019 0 Comments Air Quality, Engineering and Construction, Environmental Science, Hazardous Waste, Inorganic Chemistry, Materials Science, Organic Chemistry, Recycling and Waste

Researchers have developed a new catalyst that can cleave plastic's strong carbon-carbon, converting it into higher value products.

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A new stable form of plutonium discovered

October 18, 2019 0 Comments Chemistry, Environmental Science, Hazardous Waste, Nuclear Energy, Physics, Recycling and Waste, Renewable Energy, Weapons Technology

Scientists have found a new compound of plutonium with an unexpected, pentavalent oxidation state. This new phase of plutonium is solid and stable, and may be a transient phase in radioactive waste repositories.

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All plastic waste could become new, high-quality plastic through advanced steam cracking

October 18, 2019 0 Comments Energy and the Environment, Engineering and Construction, Environmental Science, Hazardous Waste, Inorganic Chemistry, Materials Science, Petroleum, Recycling and Waste

A research group has developed an efficient process for breaking down any plastic waste to a molecular level. The resulting gases can then be transformed back into new plastics – of the same quality as the original. The new process could transform today's plastic factories into recycling refineries, within the framework of their existing infrastructure.

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Six degrees of nuclear separation

October 11, 2019 0 Comments 3-D Printing, Energy and the Environment, Environmental Science, Materials Science, Nuclear Energy, Recycling and Waste, Renewable Energy, Weapons Technology

For the first time, scientists have printed 3D parts that pave the way to recycling up to 97 percent of the waste produced by nuclear reactors.

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Antibiotic resistant genes prevalent in groundwater

October 4, 2019 0 Comments Bacteria, Drought, Drought Research, Environmental Issues, Insects (including Butterflies), Microbes and More, Recycling and Waste, Water

The spread of antibiotic resistant genes (ARGs) through the water system could put public safety at-risk. Researchers studied and compared samples from an advanced groundwater treatment facility in California and groundwater aquifers to detect differences in ARG concentrations. They found that the advanced groundwater treatment facility reduced nearly all targeted ARGs to below detection limits, but groundwater samples had a ubiquitous presence of ARGs in both control locations and locations recharged with water from the advanced water treatment facility.

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Urban beaches are environmental hotspots for antibiotic resistance after rainfall

September 30, 2019 0 Comments Bacteria, Civil Engineering, Environmental Issues, Microbes and More, Nature, Nature of Water, Recycling and Waste, Sports Science, Water

New research provide clear links between storm-water discharge, which sometimes includes wet-weather sewer overflow (WWSO) events, and the presence of AbR in microorganisms living in urban beach habitats.

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Mosquitoes more likely to lay eggs in closely spaced habitats

September 26, 2019 0 Comments Biodiversity, Ecology, Exotic Species, Fish, Insects (including Butterflies), Nature, Recycling and Waste, Wild Animals

Patches of standing water that are close together are more likely to be used by mosquitoes to lay eggs in than patches that are farther apart.

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Soap from straw: Scientists develop eco friendly ingredient from agricultural waste

September 23, 2019 0 Comments Agriculture and Food, Biology, Energy and the Environment, Environmental Science, Food and Agriculture, Hazardous Waste, Nature, Recycling and Waste

A scientist has discovered a way of using one of the world's most abundant natural resources as a replacement for humanmade chemicals in soaps and thousands of other household products.

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