Ritual, Not Metrics: How Balinese Temple Restoration Governs Material Change
A qualitative study of three Balinese temple restorations finds that ritual procedures, rather than technical assessment alone, authorise dismantling, reuse, ...
Tag: circular economy
Turning Demolition Audits Into Machine-Readable Data With OpenBIM
A web-based framework converts scan-to-BIM building models into standardized, machine-readable pre-demolition audits validated against real demolition tonnages at a Czech ...
Robots and Humans Team Up to Tear Apart Old Phones in Simulated Recycling Line
Researchers simulated a six-station human-robot disassembly line for end-of-life phones, reporting an average simulated processing time of 95.54 seconds per ...
Terahertz-Sensing Design Framework Aims to Make Plastic Containers Easier to Recycle
Researchers at Shibaura Institute of Technology developed a design framework that integrates terahertz sensing into the geometry of transparent plastic ...
Renewable carbon strategies for sustainable bioplastics integrating biomass valorization with carbon dioxide utilization and structural property relationships
A critical review links waste biomass and carbon dioxide to polymer design, finding that greener bioplastics depend on integrated processing, ...
AI and flexible investment model lifts simulated wastewater biorefinery value
A simulated 10-year study found that AI forecasting and flexible investment timing raised modeled wastewater biorefinery value from negative $1.2 ...
Peptide-modified nanocellulose achieves high organic-load removal in laboratory dairy-wastewater study
A laboratory study found that peptide-modified nanocellulose made from dairy sludge and crustacean waste achieved reported removal efficiencies of 97.80% ...
Fifty fundamental questions to unlock the grapevine microbiome for sustainable viticulture
A survey and structured review by 44 international experts produced 50 priority questions for addressing gaps in grapevine microbiome research ...
Recycled E-Waste Copper Turns Old Electronics Into Precision Metal Cups
Every year, humanity discards tens of millions of tonnes of electronic waste, and buried inside that growing mountain of dead ...
Marble Waste and Machine Learning Team Up to Reinvent Road Pavement Grout
A machine learning study shows that waste marble dust can replace up to 32 percent of the cement in semi-flexible ...
Fish Waste Protein Hydrolysate Boosts Tomato Growth and Yield in Soilless Farming
Researchers converted rainbow trout processing waste into an enzymatic protein hydrolysate that improved tomato growth, physiology, and fruit quality in ...
Discarded Drink Cartons Turned Into Rubber Reinforcement in New Recycling Route
Researchers have converted post-consumer Tetra Pak cartons into a cellulose-rich filler that partially replaces carbon black in natural rubber, improving ...
City Waste Compost and Poultry Manure Boost Spinach Yields by 62 Percent
Every day, India's cities generate roughly 170,000 tonnes of municipal solid waste, yet barely half of it is processed before ...
Amazonian Sacha Inchi shells become cheap carbon filters for mercury removal
Discarded Amazonian Sacha Inchi shells transformed into carbonaceous materials that remove mercury from water with remarkable efficiency, offering a sustainable ...
Penn State Startup Intel-E-Waste Wins NSF Challenge to Recover Critical Metals from E-Waste
Intel-E-Waste, a startup built on Penn State research, won a National Science Foundation Tech Metal Transformation Challenge award of up ...
From Perfume Waste to Fertile Soil: How Medicinal Plant Residues Could Transform Farming
A comprehensive review reveals that the massive waste stream from medicinal and aromatic plant distillation could become a powerful tool ...
Membranes Could Turn Spent Batteries and Mine Waste Into Tomorrow’s Metal Mines
A new review argues that membrane separation technology could transform spent lithium-ion batteries, acid mine drainage, and industrial brines into ...
Why Digital Materials Passports Succeed or Fail: It Comes Down to Human Behavior
Researchers at the University of Sheffield have developed seven evidence-based propositions showing that trust, leadership, job design, and training—not just ...
From Crop Waste to Medicine: How Biomass Is Rewriting the Rules of Organic Chemistry
A new review maps how biomass-derived platform molecules such as furfural, levulinic acid, and succinic acid are replacing petroleum feedstocks ...
Why Banning Plastic Films Beats Recycling Them: Australia’s $12 Billion Lesson
A validated system dynamics model shows Australia's 70 percent plastic recovery target fails through universal processing but succeeds with an ...
