is produced is used to make electricity or to heat nearby buildings. In Paris, France, some power plants burn almost 2 million metric tons of the city's garbage each year. The amount of energy produced is about the same as would be produced by burning almost a half million barrels of ...
The Ocean Cleanup, the Dutch non-profit organization developing advanced technologies to rid the oceans of plastic, announces that its latest ocean cleanup prototype system – System 001/B – is successfully capturing and collecting plastic debris.
The evolution of the plastic bottle from amazing to scourge of land and sea has played out inside of a generation.
The Ocean Cleanup engaged with MCS, a Netherlands-based Nokia Value Added Distributor specialized in IIoT and private networks, to support its communications needs. For the first trial version of its cleanup solution, dubbed System 001, MCS designed a network of 50 sensors to detect water leak...
Isn't it an irony that the world's biggest garbage dump is located in the world's biggest ocean. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, or the Pacific Trash Vortex, is an endless stream of garbage debris that can be found between the states of Hawaii and Calif
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is an area of trash in the Pacific Ocean that's twice the size of Texas. Could there soon be a "Great Lakes Garbage Patch?" Researchers say the Great Lakes are becoming polluted with the same plastic particles that have created the Great Pacific Garbage Pa...
With the development of deep learning technology, researchers are increasingly paying attention to how to efficiently salvage surface garbage. Since the 1980s, the development of plastic products and economic growth has led to the accumulation of a large amount of garbage in rivers. Due to the lar...
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They also found that these tiny plastic pieces gave sea striders more room to lay their eggs, leading to much higher densities of the invertebrate in the garbage patch. By giving these insects a place to breed out on the open ocean, the plastic patch is changing the natural environment and...
Not only does this process reuse plastic that would otherwise end up in the landfill (or worse, the ocean), it can also reuse plastic from itself since the scraps can be re-melted back into sheets. Plastic does lose some of its favorable material properties with repeated heat cycles, but ...