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Scientists use coffee and plastic waste to brew up a new way to capture carbon

Every cup of coffee you drink could be purifying the air soon. Researchers at the University of Sharjah have developed a patented technology that transforms used coffee grounds and plastic bottles ...
New Atlas

New technique uses plastic waste to capture CO2 emissions

Two of our biggest environmental problems are the tons of unusable plastic waste, and the tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) which are released into the atmosphere in smokestack emissions. A new process is ...
EurekAlert!

Scientists transform plastic waste into efficient CO2 capture materials

“The beauty of this method is that we solve a problem without creating a new one. By turning waste into a raw material that can actively reduce greenhouse gases, we make an environmental issue part of ...
Rigzone

Alberta invests $2MM in Waste-to-Energy Carbon Capture Facility

'The study is an important first step to realizing a large-scale municipal waste-to-energy facility with carbon capture and storage'. Alberta’s government is providing $2.04 million (CAD 2.8 million) ...
Business Wire

Babcock & Wilcox Awarded Contract to Evaluate Carbon Capture System for Sweden Waste-to-Energy Plant

AKRON, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Babcock & Wilcox (B&W) (NYSE: BW) announced today that it has been awarded a contract to conduct a full-scale feasibility study of its SolveBright™ carbon dioxide (CO 2) ...