Two Students Transform Plastic Waste into Fuel Pellets
By combining rice husks, shredded plastic waste with dolomite limestone powder, two students from the Mekong Delta have created a fuel pellet that burns better and produces more energy than ...
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Dense accumulation of microplastics off the coast of Japan, what happened?
Tiny microplastics accumulating off the coast of Japan have raised significant concern among scientists, especially considering that the level of plastic pollution here is 260 times higher than in the ...
Site Zero – The World’s Largest Plastic Waste Sorting Factory
The Site Zero facility, spanning 60,000 m2, can sort up to 200,000 tons of plastic waste each year thanks to its infrared camera system.Sweden has inaugurated the Site Zero plant ...
High-Tech Plastic Waste Recycling Model in South Korea
The most common recycling process for plastics involves cutting used plastic into small pieces, washing, sorting, and drying, then transforming what remains into new plastic. However, South Korea is constructing ...
American scientists turn used plastic into soap
American Scientists Discover Method to Turn Used Plastics into Soap.According to The Guardian, plastic has chemical properties similar to fatty acids, which are one of the main components of soap. ...
Unimaginable Dangers When 1 Liter of Water Contains Up to 12,000 Microplastic Particles
According to a study, there are up to 12,000 microplastics in one liter of water. This is a new tragedy, as the number of microplastics in the ocean exceeds the ...
