Single use test tubes and petri dishes: New plastic recycling plant for innovation lab waste
From University of Bath 14/09/23 A company co-founded by a University of Bath graduate has opened the UK’s first pilot plant that can recycle up to 60% of plastic lab waste, to make back into new lab consumables. LabCycle hopes the technology could be scaled up in the future to recycle waste from healthcare, research and […]
Robot classroom: 23 bots learn how to sort office waste and recycling
From Superinnovators 22/08/23 In a groundbreaking experiment, Google’s research team has successfully deployed a fleet of 23 reinforcement learning (RL) enabled robots to sort waste and recycling in office buildings. The experiment, which spanned over two years, was led by Sergey Levine, Research Scientist, and Alexander Herzog, Staff Research Software Engineer at Google Research’s Brain […]
New recycling method for 840,000 tonne waste problem that isn’t single-use plastics
From UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY 04/07/2023 It’s estimated that by 2030 carbon and glass fibre composites (CFRP), materials commonly used in wind turbine blades, hydrogen tanks, airplanes, yachts, construction, and car manufacturing, will be a key waste stream worldwide. The annual accumulation of CFRP waste from aircraft and wind turbine industries alone is projected to reach 840,300 […]
