Tag: WASTE
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A French Town Meets All Its Electricity Requirements From Its Waste
For the first time in history of France, a biogas power plant that exclusively uses non-recyclable waste, has been used to provide electricity to the town. The French town in question will be soon be supplied with all its electricity requirements, using the decomposition of its residents’ waste. We tell you more about this great…
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Engineers Develop Power Plants That Use Nuclear Waste As Fuel
As the years pass, ever increasing number of nuclear reactors produce more and more nuclear. This can have severe implications for the ecological future of our planet. But now thanks to this new research, it looks if the impact of these toxic emissions on the environment would be reduced as nuclear waste would be turned…
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Company BlueOak Turns Your Electronic Waste Into solid gold
While used electronic materials are being crammed into more and more landfills around the world, a company had the unique idea of extracting precious metals from this waste. Indeed, a lucrative and environmental friendly initiative. Approximately 50 million tons of electronic waste were produced worldwide in 2012 according to a report by the the United…
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Sweden And Norway Import Waste To Fuel Their Power Plants
While many countries are trying to reduce the amount of waste produced by them each year, others are in the opposite situation! Norway and Sweden, which use waste to fuel their power plants, are experiencing an unprecedented shortage of waste that requires them to import it. The Waste, its recycling and storage is a recurring problem…
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Satisfeito Fights Against Food wastage By Donating It To The Hungry (Video)
If you are shocked by the colossal amounts of food that end up going in the trash every day, you will appreciate this initiative. In Brazil, an anti-waste campaign has just been launched thanks to the help from normal restaurant customers. For a given bill, they eat smaller meals. The resulting difference of cost is then…