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South Korea: Smart Trash Contains Food Waste
Some cities in Korea have just put chips in the trash to find out where too many households throw too much food. Those who violate will be fined severely.
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Do you believe it? Tomatoes can turn into electricity
Damaged or deeply eaten tomatoes, or tomatoes and tomato seeds leftover when producing ketchup will be discharged into landfills and will create dangerous methane gas. B…
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The toilet does not waste water, the great innovation was funded by Bill Gates
The Bill and Melinda Gates charity five years ago announced to the world that it would produce a very durable and completely inexpensive toilet, promising to revolutioni…
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Cement holds safe nuclear waste for 100,000 years
A group of British scientists are working on cement that can withstand the harmful effects of nuclear waste for thousands of years.
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Extremely fast gold emulsion from electronic waste
Canadian scientists successfully devise a solvent that helps to extract gold from electronic waste faster, safer and cheaper.
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Japan robots collect radioactive waste
Japan's Toshiba Corp. today introduced a remote-controlled robot that collects radioactive fuel rods from Fukushima's No. 3 reactor that stopped operating due to…
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Graphene - Miraculous material that saves the Earth from the threat of nuclear waste
Graphene - the thinnest and strongest metamaterial in the world to date - even
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Future screens will 'not waste battery' thanks to phase shifting materials?
Thanks to the application of new screen material technology, scientists have brought hope to future smartphones with good displays but still saving energy.
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Flying from Los Angeles to San Francisco uses tallow fuel
An American airline has decided to use tallow fuel for a 600-kilometer flight from Los Angeles to San Francisco, California.
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Taiwan uses 'fingerprint' technology to trace the origin of dirty oil
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Close to 5 floors apartment and 100m2 villa is 3D printed
A Chinese company has just opened a 5-storey apartment building and a 100-square-meter villa built with a 6,4m high 3D printer, 9.7m wide and 152m long.
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Bill Gates drink water extracted from human feces
Bill Gates has posted details of the OmniProcessor project on the Gates Note blog, where his charity fund discusses bringing clean water and electricity to difficult are…
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Buses run by human waste
The first bus powered by biogas, treated from human waste, came into operation in the UK.
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Technology for growing mushrooms from dirty soil
Used children and adults are contributing to increasing the burden of waste disposal for people today.
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Self-destructable wood from rice hulls
Synthetic plastic chairs, synthetic carpets and biodegradable plastic bags in the future will be made from waste rather than oil.