News tagged with recycled materials
Can Recycling Be Bad for the Environment?
Jul 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- By now, nearly everyone knows that it is important to recycle. It helps the environment. Even my six-year-old knows that. But what if it doesn't? While it seems pretty straightforward, in ...
Motorola's green phone has a great price
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Apr 13, 2009 |
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At least one of Motorola's new phones will appeal to consumers searching for "green" products.
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Nokia Unveils 1 Green Phone, 1 Super Phone
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Feb 13, 2008 |
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Among its many new devices at this week's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the Finnish company Nokia is demonstrating two cell phones that are intriguing in very different ways. The "Remade" is built almost ...
New research will seal the future of green packaging
Nov 20, 2008 |
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Researchers at the University of Bath and the food & drinks research centre at Campden BRI are leading a project to create a new high speed environmentally-friendly packaging process that will use recycled ...
Paving the way for green roads
Feb 21, 2008 |
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Kevin Gardner sees green roads right around the corner. “A lot of the infrastructure in this country needs to be re-built,” says Gardner, University of New Hampshire associate professor of civil engineering and director of ...
New process may convert toxic computer waste into safe products
May 12, 2008 |
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Discarded computer parts could one day wind up fueling your car. That’s because researchers in Romania and Turkey have developed a simple, efficient method for recycling printed circuit boards into environmentally-friendly ...
New test finds diisobutyl phthalate in some cardboard food packaging -- recycling is the issue
Nov 28, 2007 |
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A new test can identify take-away paper-based food containers (such as pizza boxes) that break phthalate safety rules. The phthalates (plasticisers) are present because the containers were made from pulp that contained at ...
World-first sustainable racing car to take on Formula 3 at Brands Hatch (w/ Video)
Oct 05, 2009 |
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Can the idea of 'green motorsport' actually work? Yes, according to Dr Kerry Kirwan at the University of Warwick, who led the research team which designed and built the worldfirst fully sustainable Formula 3 racing car.
Motorola Unveils Mobile Phone Made Using Recycled Bottle Plastics and New 3G Touch Tablet with Customizable Home Screen
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Jan 06, 2009 |
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Today Motorola, Inc. announced two new mobile devices that will make social responsibility and social connectivity even more accessible to people everywhere. MOTO W233 Renew is the world's first mobile phone ...
How Solid Is Concrete's Carbon Footprint?
May 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Many scientists currently think at least 5 percent of humanity's carbon footprint comes from the concrete industry, both from energy use and the carbon dioxide (CO2) byproduct from the produc ...
Toys made of liquid wood
Dec 02, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Most plastics are based on petroleum. A bio-plastic that consists of one hundred percent renewable raw materials helps to conserve this resource. Researchers have now optimized the plastic ...
Promising new material for capturing CO2 from smokestacks
Mar 03, 2008 |
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Scientists and engineers in Georgia and Pennsylvania are reporting development of a new, low-cost material for capturing carbon dioxide from the smokestacks of coal-fired electric power plants and other industrial ...
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