Ahmad Yani spent years sifting through truckloads of imported factory waste in his East Java village, searching for recyclables to survive. For decades, residents in his community bought waste residue from paper and cardboard recycling factories, separating plastics to sell as furnace fuel or to fire local limestone kilns, the ABC reported. Mr. Yani said … Read more
Flash Joule Heating Transforms Retired Wind Blades Into Silicon Carbide and Graphene Europe’s annual decommissioned wind turbine blade waste is projected to surge from 20,000 tonnes in 2025 to 55,000 tonnes by 2030, euronews.com reported. Wind turbines typically operate for about 20 years before reaching their end-of-life. While 85 to 90 per cent of a … Read more
Glide Oil’s re-refinery in Pukekohe, New Zealand, has become the country’s first facility to convert waste oil into reusable base oil, potentially reducing annual carbon emissions by up to 100,000 tonnes, according to independently verified data from Toitū Envirocare. The facility, located on a site where Glide has handled waste oil since 1984, re-refines about … Read more