Recycling
Integrated e-waste management needed in Ghana
March 15, 2018
The country’s health and safety think tank, HESAG, is calling for an integrated e-waste management system to help protect Ghana’s “critical ecological components”, GhanaWeb reports. As well as helping to preserve the nation’s “forests and future generation”, such a waste management system would also “ensure that harmful elements associated with hazardous and other waste products […]
New plastic e-waste recycling progress
March 15, 2018
A recent development may help solve the recycling industry’s problem with mixed polymer blend plastics. A new study led by scientists at the Illinois Sustainability Technology Centre has suggested that mixed-plastic e-waste could prove a valuable source of reusable polymers, after it developed an energy-efficient and eco-friendly method of separating mixed polymers for recycling, reports […]
