PurposeEnergy's new anaerobic digestion facility in St. Albans converts Ben & Jerry's ice cream waste into electricity, fertilizer, and clean water. The $20 million plant, funded by Quinbrook ...
Every year, Australia buries millions of tons of waste in landfills. But these sites are filling fast, recycling has its own limitations, and most waste export is banned. So councils and state ...
At the recycling center, powerful magnets will pull out steel. Spinning drums will toss aluminum into bins. Copper wires will get neatly bundled up for resale. But as the conveyor belt keeps rolling, ...
It may sound like the stuff of sci-fi movies, but diverting food waste from the landfill and converting it into electricity has become a real thing. William Brangham visited Ben & Jerry’s Vermont ice ...
Most e-waste is never recycled. Data center upgrades for AI projects could significantly add to the problem, researchers say. SAN FRANCISCO — The Silicon Valley arms race to build more powerful ...
As the world’s appetite for computers, smartphones and other electronic devices grows ever bigger, the other side of the coin — e-waste — is raising alarms. According to a UN report released last year ...