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Astronauts deal with flooded toilet in orbit (AP)

Astronauts deal with flooded toilet in orbit

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 19, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 6

(AP) -- The bathroom lines at the already crowded space shuttle and space station complex got a lot longer Sunday because of a flooded toilet. One of two commodes aboard the international space station malfunctioned, ...


Waste water treatment plant mud used as 'green' fuel

Waste water treatment plant mud used as 'green' fuel

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 23, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Catalan scientists have shown that using mud from waste water treatment plants as a partial alternative fuel can enable cement factories to reduce their CO2 emissions and comply with the Kyoto Protocol, as well as ...


Singapore honours Dutch scientist

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Singapore said Monday it will award nearly 200,000 US dollars to a Dutch scientist who pioneered an environmentally friendly, low-cost way of treating waste water and refused to patent the process.





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Energy-efficient water purification

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Water and energy are two resources on which modern society depends. As demands for these increase, researchers look to alternative technologies that promise both sustainability and reduced environmental impact. Engineered ...


Sweden helps SKorea convert food waste into biogas

Technology / Energy

created May 21, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- The South Korean city of Ulsan lets water generated from processing food waste run off into the ocean, which can generate methane gas harmful to the environment.


New use for human hair

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 29, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Agricultural crop production relies on composted waste materials and byproducts, such as animal manure, municipal solid waste composts, and sewage sludge, as a necessary nutrient source. Studies have shown that human hair, ...


US rubber company disputes Liberia pollution study

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(AP) -- An American-owned rubber company is disputing claims by the Liberian government that the company's waste products are polluting creeks.


Biochar: turning waste into wealth

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

As all gardeners know, manure helps the flowers grow. But that manure also gives off greenhouse gases, contributing to global climate change.


River heals as lawsuit against Big Poultry looms (AP)

River heals as lawsuit against Big Poultry looms

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- David Overbey is no scientist, but he says a person doesn't have to be to see how much the Illinois River has improved in recent years.


Critics: Burial site for Hudson PCBs is inadequate (AP)

Critics: Burial site for Hudson PCBs is inadequate

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 22, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(AP) -- Later this month, the first trainloads of PCB-tainted sludge dredged from the Hudson River will arrive and, in the eyes of critics, will turn a stretch of West Texas into New York's "pay toilet."


Researchers Moving Closer to Creating Viable Energy From Sewage

Technology / Energy

created Oct 08, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (44) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- When a newly developed technology for producing hydrogen gas from biowaste is brought to commercial use – as researchers believe it can be – then it appears the world will have plenty of energy if it can ...


Antibiotic resistant bacteria found in fertilizer

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 29, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Vancomycin resistant enterococci (VRE) have been found in sewage sludge, a by-product of waste-water treatment frequently used as a fertilizer. Researchers writing in the open access journal Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica point out the ...


Getting into hot water: Solar water heating pays for itself five times over

Technology / Energy

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (12) | comments 4

An analysis of the engineering and economics for a solar water-heating system shows it to have a payback period of just two years, according to researchers in India. They report, in the International Journal of Global En ...



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