14 million motor vehicles are scrapped in the EU each year, representing an enormous waste problem. Seventy-five percent of a modern car is composed of ferrous and non-ferrous metals, which are ...

Agricultural plastic mulch films are widely used around the world to increase crop yields, conserve soil moisture, and suppress weeds. However, once these films are discarded, they can persist in the ...

In the adventure classic Back to the Future, Emmett "Doc" Brown uses energy generated from rubbish to power his DeLorean time machine. But while a time machine may still be some way off, the prospect ...

PROVIDENCE – Three years ago, after state regulators rejected a proposal in West Warwick to build a medical waste-to-energy plant, Gov. Dan McKee went a step further and signed a statewide ban on ...

A solar particle receiver and a pyrolysis reactor with associated particle and char separator are combined to produce low-emission valuable products such as bio-oil, biochar or pyrogas.

Foster Agblevor, associate professor of biological systems engineering, is leading the team of researchers in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (www.cals.vt.edu) at Virginia Tech ...