Proper disposal of waste solvents is usually considered more of an environmental issue than a safety issue. However, it is often both. Solvent is dispensed in one direction only. It never goes back ...

Organic chemist Bruce Lipshutz had a bit of a rude awakening. It was around 2007, and the head of environmental health and safety (EH&S) at the University of California, Santa Barbara, sat Lipshutz ...

Plastics are everywhere—in the packaging around your food, the insulation in your home, and even the parts of your phone. They make life easier and safer, but there’s a cost. Nearly 75% of plastic ...

On average, from 2011 to 2021, academic labs generated around 4,300 metric tons of hazardous waste each year. One of the largest lab-used solvents discarded is dichloromethane and more than half of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Solvent-based recycling and AI could lead to cleaner, smarter solutions for managing the world’s growing plastic problem. (CREDIT: ...

TotalEnergies SE and clean technology firm Clariter SA have developed what they describe as the world's first sustainable ultrapure solvent made from plastic waste. In a news release, officials with ...

For Prof. Ezra Bar-Ziv, there is no garbage—just raw material with value waiting to be unlocked through engineering. April 2023: Ezra Bar-Ziv is principal investigator (PI) on a 3-year project that ...

A new solvent and a new team could increase the capacity at the Savannah River Site's Salt Waste Processing Facility to 9 million gallons per year. Thomas Johnson, senior deputy manager of the U.S.