"My research has found that crumb rubber, derived from waste tires, can be used as a filter media," Xie explains. "The crumb rubber could be used for treating wastewater, ship ballast water, and storm ...

Huge quantities of plastic waste are littering the planet today, stimulating both governments and the public to react in their own ways to quell the threat to global life systems. From 2021, ...

Researchers at the University of Bonn have developed a new filter designed to remove microplastics from washing machine wastewater. The filter, which is patent-pending, was inspired by the gill arch ...

Membrane filters don't require much energy to purify water, making them popular for wastewater treatment. To keep these materials in tip-top condition, they're commonly cleaned with large amounts of ...

Researchers at the University of Delaware have transformed discarded corn cobs and other agricultural byproducts into high performance biochar filters that capture both ammonia and tiny plastic ...

As the Philippines accelerates its industrial growth across manufacturing, mining, and food processing, corporate adherence to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) wastewater ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Upgrades to a wastewater treatment plant in Colorado helped filter out gender-bending chemicals that were affecting fish, U.S. researchers reported on Monday. They said male ...

BISMARCK, N.D -- Filters used to strain wastewater from oil wells that test positive for low-level radiation are being rejected at municipal landfills in the Bakken Field oil patch. Williston landfill ...

A new process uses bacteria to filter wastewater while creating electricity. Whether wastewater is full of "waste" is a matter of perspective. "Why is it waste?" asked Zhen (Jason) He, professor in ...