Ready-to-use recipe for turning plant waste into gasoline
Ready-to-use recipe for turning plant waste into gasoline. Credit: KU Leuven – Joris Snaet Bioscience engineers at KU Leuven, Belgium, already knew how to make gasoline in the laboratory from plant waste such as sawdust. Now the researchers have developed a roadmap, as it were, for industrial cellulose gasoline. In 2014, at KU Leuven’s Centre …
Increase in plastics waste reaching remote South Atlantic islands
Date: October 9, 2018 Source: British Antarctic Survey The amount of plastic washing up onto the shores of remote South Atlantic islands is 10 times greater than it was a decade ago, according to new research. Scientists investigating plastics in seas surrounding the remote British Overseas Territories discovered they are invading these unique biologically-rich regions. …
Millions of tons of plastic waste could be turned into clean fuels, other products
A chemical conversion process developed at Purdue University allows researchers to turn recycled shopping bags into pellets into oil as shown in the bottle being held by Linda Wang, the Maxine Spencer Nichols Professor in the Davidson School of Chemical Engineering. Using distillation, that oil is separated into a gasoline-like fuel in the bottle in …
