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indigo/Fraunhofer IOSB AST

New UVC LED disinfection box

16.01.2025

The Fraunhofer Institute has developed a UVC LED disinfection box for use in laboratories, clean rooms and clinics.
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Suppliers focus on sustainability

17.06.2024

How do exhibitors contribute to the reusability of products and thus to a more sustainable product life cycle?
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coffeekai

Recycling model for the plastics industry

30.11.2023

Profs Kümmerer and Endres aim to create a sustainable recycling model for the plastics industry at Leuphana and Leibniz Universities.
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Nick Fewings / Unsplash

Plastic production via advanced recycling lowers GHG emissions

17.10.2023

Advanced recycling of post-use plastic cuts GHG emissions and boosts U.S. recycling, says DOE Argonne Lab study.
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Rimidolove

Sustainable materials and recycling

19.09.2023

Where are the difficulties and how can the the industry become more sustainable, despite strict safety regulations?
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Empa

Sustainability: wood instead of plastic?

06.09.2023

Could manufacturers even do without plastics to become more sustainable?
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K. Selsam/Fraunhofer ISC

CircEl-Paper: Recyclable paper-based electronics

06.06.2023

Billions of tons of electronic waste are produced in the EU every year. With a novel approach, the new EU project "CircEl-Paper" could sustainably improve the recycling process for electronics in the future.
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DECHEMA e.V.

Recovery of battery metals - project launch of Metallico

18.04.2023

How can battery metals such as lithium, cobalt, copper, manganese and nickel be recycled in a sustainable way? This question is in the focus of the new EU project METALLICO, in which DECHEMA is also involved. 23 partners from nine countries will optimize five innovative processes for the recovery of those metals and subsequently demonstrate these in case studies on an industrially relevant scale.
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