Remediation – Page 2
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Research
Loofah-structured hydrogel could help meet global clean water demands
Hydrogel water purification technology goes from a curiosity to a contender through a change in its structure
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Research
Metal–carbon catalysts made from plants can break down plastics
Soil remediation study sees researchers develop method for converting low-density polyethylene into liquid hydrocarbons
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News
EU floats plan that would ban virtually every PFAS currently on the market
Members states will examine proposal to prohibit production, use, sale and import of PFAS into Europe in 2025
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News
Plastics need a complete redesign to make them easier to recycle, researchers argue
Thousands of chemicals used in plastics makes creating a truly circular economy far harder
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News
Assembling the UN’s new panel on chemical waste
Discussions are underway to agree funding, goals and procedures to create an IPCC for pollution
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Business
3M pledges to exit PFAS manufacturing
Conglomerate will remove fluorochemicals from portfolio in a bid to stay ahead of rapidly tightening regulations
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Research
Mixed plastic waste converted into useful materials in dual chemical–biological approach
Process can convert polystyrene, PET and polyethylene waste into chemical feedstocks
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Business
Mallinckrodt ordered to clean up US river mercury pollution
Firm must set at least $187 million in trust to pay for Penobscot river remediation
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News
What to do with vast stockpiles of PFAS-laden firefighting foam?
Battelle’s new supercritical water oxidation technology has proven that it can destroy legacy foams containing ‘forever chemicals’
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Research
Photochemistry enables safer method for reprocessing plutonium and uranium mixtures
Method bypasses harsh redox reagents while maintaining high separation factors
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Feature
Can we clean Covid from the air around us?
Nina Notman talks to the experts about what is needed to remove pollutants and even infectious diseases from the air inside our homes, schools and offices
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News
Proposal to name PFAS chemicals as ‘hazardous’ alarms industry
EPA’s plan to designate PFOA and PFOS to be hazardous substances could hand chemical companies a clean-up bill for billions of dollars
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News
How to put an end to ‘forever chemicals’ and annihilate PFAS pollution
To fight the planet’s persistent perfluorinated problem new and repurposed technologies are being rolled out
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Business
US reinstates Superfund taxes to clean up 1300 contaminated sites
Levy on 42 chemicals and their derivatives aims to revive neglected cleanup programme
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Research
UK’s first ‘industrial scale’ carbon capture plant opens in Cheshire
40,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide will be captured each year at Tata Chemicals Europe facility
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Opinion
Energy is the Achilles’ heel of carbon capture technologies
Efforts to trap carbon dioxide could consume a huge amount of forecast renewable energy growth
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News
Can negative emissions technology clear the air without costing the Earth?
Counting the energy cost of capturing carbon dioxide
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Research
Teflon-inspired nanochannels outperform biological water transporters
Extreme water repellence of fluorinated surfaces leads to unprecedented permeation rates
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Research
Wastewater from battery recycling plants mined for water-splitting catalysts
Electrocatalysts derived from metal pollutants used to generate hydrogen