Chatgpt generated: Aerial view of Oʻahu’s H-POWER waste-to-energy plant showing the scale of the facility that converts garbage into electricity.
The starting point for evaluating Oʻahu’s waste-to-energy plant is the fully electrified energy system developed earlier in this series. Once overseas aviation fuel, international maritime bunkering, and military energy consumption are removed from the accounting, and once transportation, buildings, and industry are electrified, the island’s civilian electricity demand settles at … [continued]
Those plastic bottles that are so readily available at convenience stores, groceries, conferences, and sports venues are a real problem: they kill marine creatures. A recent study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences concludes that plastic ingestion has been documented in nearly 1,300 marine species, including every … [continued]
New catalyst could make mixed plastic recycling a reality. The future of plastic recycling may soon get much less complicated, frustrating and tedious. In a new study, Northwestern University chemists have introduced a new plastic upcycling process that can drastically reduce — or perhaps even fully bypass — the laborious … [continued]
The following information is somewhat difficult on an emotional level, but important to consider. It might be difficult because pesky, toxic fossil fuel pollution seems to get into almost everything: air, oceans, soil, food, etc. Plastics typically are made from fossil fuels. If you read CleanTechnica with any regularity, you … [continued]
While researchers tackle the thorny problem of microplastic pollution accumulating in the human brain, Chris Hemsworth teams up with neuroscientists to demonstrate that the human brain is still alive and kicking in in “Brain Power,” one of three episodes in the new National Geographic series Limitless: Live Better Now.
What will it take to complete a landmark treaty aimed at ending the plastic pollution crisis? Can countries around the world, which are pressured by the fossil fuel industry to protect its plastic manufacturing investments, actually divest from plastic? Plastics Treaty negotiations began on August 5 and are due to … [continued]
The Ocean Cleanup and Kia collaborate with the Guatemalan Government and partners to prevent one of the world’s largest plastic pollution flows reaching the ocean Targeting 20,000 tons of waste carried annually by Motagua River and Las Vacas River Latest step in Kia’s longstanding strategic partnership with The Ocean Cleanup … [continued]
Everyday beach walkers in my condo community scour the incoming tide and wrack line for litter. The amount of debris they pick up can depend on the direction of the current or a recent storm at sea. Tourist season, which runs from January through April in Florida, definitely increases human-made … [continued]
Key Process Improvements Save Energy and Cut Costs for Recycling Polyester With Enzymes A successful collaboration involving a trio of research institutions has yielded a road map toward an economically viable process for using enzymes to recycle plastics. The researchers, from NREL, the University of Massachusetts Lowell, and the University of … [continued]
Why is the full lifecycle of plastics — including production — so important? Plastic degrades into microplastics, pieces less than 5 millimeters long. Nanoplastics, which measure less than 1 micrometer, are the smallest of these and the most likely to get into our blood and tissues. World Environment Day, which … [continued]
