France leads the way with a “Repair index” for electronic products
In France beginning January 2021, many electronic products must be labeled with information about repairability on a scale ranging from 1 to 10
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Detecting environmental damage in forests with drones and sensors
A research team from Empa and Imperial College London has developed drones which equip trees with sensors to detect environmental damage in the forest.
New process enables extraction of lithium in Germany
A world without lithium is inconceivable in the 21st century. Mobile phones, electric cars, data storage. Lithium is essential for those batteries that power these […]
Start-up of the Day: Facility management is all about all the materials that enter and exit a building
Yvette Watson (37), the co-founder of PHI Factory, finished second in the Dutch bank ABN AMRO Sustainable Top 50 competition in 2019 and was nominated […]
Start-up of the Day: trash into treasure with Hańderek Technologies
What if we could live in a world where, instead of throwing things away, we would pay more attention to how we could reuse them? […]
Corona pandemic – a chance for an eco-friendly world?
The world is firmly in the stranglehold of the novel corona virus SARS-CoV-2, and fear of it is bringing out the darkest sides in many […]
How harmful is microrubber to humans?
Microplastics is literally on everyone’s lips. Every person eats, drinks and breathes up to five grams of microplastics per week – and therefore basically eats […]
EU research into the use of fields, manure and forests aims to restore the environment
In the next five years, Europe has to invest in developing systems that measure and explain as to why some agricultural crops are growing well […]