Good News Notes: “Restaurants and grocery stores will be required to donate food they don’t use to food pantries or turn it into compost instead of throwing it in the dumpster under one of several of Gainesville’s new sweeping zero waste ordinances. Those requirements are among one of three proposed laws approved by the Gainesville City Commission on Thursday….
Tag: greenhouse gases
These 19 Companies Are Ditching Plastic Packaging – Food Tank
Good News Notes: “The world produces around 300 million tons of plastic waste every year, according to the U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP). This plastic waste is detrimental to human and planetary health, releasing greenhouse gases, polluting soil and waters, and threatening marine wildlife. Plastic waste is now so abundant, the U.N. has declared it a planetary crisis. Food and…
Cutting animal agriculture buys time to get off fossil fuels: study
Good News Notes: “Eliminating animal agriculture over the next 15 years would effectively stop global warming in its tracks – largely halting the increase of greenhouse gases for the next 30 years, according to a recent study in PLOS Climate. The largest contributor to that decrease in heating would be a massive expansion in prairie, forest and…
Pilot program turns Boise, ID plastic recycling into a bench”
Good News Notes: “When the Hefty EnergyBag recycling program was announced in Boise about three years ago, it asked residents to separate those hard-to-recycle No. 4-7 plastics into orange bags. The bags were shipped to a Utah company which planned to chemically deconstruct the plastic into diesel fuel. Equipment problems quickly forced the end of that destination,…
Indo Kordsa’s energy to be generated with 5 MWp Solar Rooftop by TotalEnergies
Good News Notes: “PT Indo Kordsa Tbk (Indo Kordsa), a subsidiary of Kordsa group and a major supplier for the premium tire reinforcement material for the automotive sector in Southeast Asia, has signed an agreement with TotalEnergies to provide a rooftop-mounted solar system for the company’s production buildings, warehouse and office buildings in Citeureup, Bogor, Indonesia. PT…
S. Korea develops technique to recycle discarded solar panels into high-performance solar cells
Good News Notes: “Researchers have developed a non-destructive technique to recycle discarded solar panels to create high-performance solar cells. The technique will become crucial in a few decades when solar panels that are currently being used are discarded after their operational life of about 20 years. A solar panel is a photovoltaic module made of…
Utah tech company may hold the key to solving the world’s food problems and cutting water use while also fighting climate change
Good News Notes: “Before Utah’s searing, mega-drought summer, came the winter storm of 2021. In February tornadoes and ice storms swept across the nation causing massive damage. Hardest hit was Texas, where millions lost power, over 200 people died and economic damage exceeded $195 billion. Agriculture saw devastated crops and livestock killed in massive numbers….
World’s first ‘green’ synthesis of plastics from CO2
Good News Notes: “By combining a CeO2 catalyst with atmospheric carbon dioxide, researchers from Osaka City University, Tohoku University, and Nippon Steel Corporation have developed an effective catalytic process for the direct synthesis of polycarbonate diols without using dehydrating agents. Their method, published in Green Chemistry, does not rely on toxic chemical feedstock like phosgene and carbon…
From waste to wealth: Converting CO2 into butanol using phosphorous-rich copper cathodes
Good News Notes: “Human activities like the burning of coal and fossil fuels have caused CO2 to accumulate in the atmosphere, which has significantly affected the Earth’s climate. As a result, several scientists are looking for ways to convert CO2 into other valuable organic products, such as 1-butanol, which has shown promise as an alternative fuel for…
This NASA-inspired technology converts carbon dioxide into food.
Good News Notes: “NASA asked the same question in the 1960s. And the challenge of feeding a year-long space mission led to a remarkable discovery: when astronauts exhale, the carbon dioxide in their breath can be captured by a special class of microbes – and potentially turned into nutrients. Now an American company has taken…