Technology
The Future Of Liquor Bottles
The wine industry is making a move towards more eco-friendly solutions. About 91% of plastic packaging used to cushion bottles ends up in landfill or polluting the environment. Glass requires incredibly high temperatures to make, and fuel and plastic to…
Researchers Identify Plant that can Clean Toxins from Soil
A team of researchers from the University of Montreal and the Montreal Botanical Garden have discovered a new chemical in the roots of white lupin that can be used to detoxify soil, including those contaminated by mining operations. Sites contaminated…
Canada’s Oil Major Imperial Oil to Produce Plant-Based Biofuel
Imperial Oil, one of Canada’s biggest oil producers and refiners, yesterday (25 August) announced it has committed to producing renewable diesel from vegetable oil at its Strathcona refinery near Edmonton. It is estimated that the site could produce around 20,000…
Solar-Powered Skylight Can Turn Seawater Into Drinking Water
According to a UNICEF report in 2019, a third of the world's population does not have access to safe drinking water. But Henry Glogau believes he has found a cheap and easy to use solution. The architecture student has developed…
Commentary: Scientists Around the World Are Working to Turn Agricultural Waste Into Food, Packaging and More
For every kilogram of cacao beans, farmers produce about 24 times the amount of biomass. In order to tackle this issue, researchers in Colombia created new products from this “waste” material. The new products range from beer to pudding and…
Commentary: Getting BECCS right
Bioenergy with carbon capture and sequestration (BECCS) is a process that captures and stores atmospheric CO2 while simultaneously producing energy, fuel, or carbontech products from biomass. In the mid 2010’s, interest and confidence in the process started falling behind. In…