A typical pair of running shoes generates 30 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions, equivalent to keeping a 100-watt light bulb on for one week, according to a new MIT-led lifecycle assessment.
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WARDJet, Inc. Tallmadge, OH announces a revolutionary, cost-saving improvement to its patented WARD Pro Waterjet Abrasive Recycling System, making recycling more profitable than ever before.
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This week, Cummins Inc. released its 2012-2013 Sustainability Report, on the Company's Sustainability Web page (www.cummins.com/sustainability).
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Addivant™ USA, LLC, the global leader in specialty additives, will exhibit in Booth E 68 during Feiplastic 2013, 17th International Plastic Trade Fair, a global meeting of industry leaders to be held from May 20th-24th at Anhembi Exhibition Pavilion, São Paulo, Brazil.
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Novelis, the world leader in aluminum rolling and recycling, today announced the opening of a new aluminum recycling and continuous casting line at its Pieve Emanuele facility in Milan, Italy. The 12 million euro expansion represents the largest single investment by Novelis in Italy in the past decade and is a key part of the company's drive to enhance the competitiveness of its Italian operations.
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Using a powerful combination of microanalytic techniques that simultaneously image photoelectric current and chemical reaction rates across a surface on a micrometer scale, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have shed new light on what may become a cost-effective way to generate hydrogen gas directly from water and sunlight.
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Eriez introduces the groundbreaking P-Rex84 Scrap Drum with Underflow Processing System. The first-of-its-size offered to the industry, this 84-inch by 60-inch drum utilizes revolutionary underflow processing in which fluff passes under the drum rather than rotating over it as it does in traditional processes. This modification greatly enhances fluff removal and metals recovery, generating increased profits for scrap yards.
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Mantra Energy Alternatives Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Mantra Venture Group Ltd., announced today that developmental work on an alternative approach to its technology has resulted in significant breakthroughs. These breakthroughs will reportedly translate to a greatly improved performance for Mantra's proprietary technology, the "Electro-Reduction of Carbon Dioxide" (ERC).
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BASF plans to begin production of 1,4-butanediol based on renewable feedstock (renewable BDO) using the patented process of Genomatica, San Diego, California. The one-step fermentation process is based on sugars as a renewable feedstock. The companies have agreed not to disclose financial details of the agreement.
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Anyone who has seen pictures of the giant, red-hot cauldrons in which steel is made — fed by vast amounts of carbon, and belching flame and smoke — would not be surprised to learn that steelmaking is one of the world’s leading industrial sources of greenhouse gases. But remarkably, a new process developed by MIT researchers could change all that.
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