How single-stream recycling works — and how your choices can make it work better

The Conversation reports on single-stream recycling, emphasizing its convenience but noting significant contamination issues that reduce effectiveness.

'Battleship'-style math can improve sustainable design, groundwater management, nuclear waste storage and more

In an approach reminiscent of the classic board game "Battleship," Stanford researchers have discovered a way to characterize ...
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'Battleship'-inspired model helps Stanford scientists plan nuclear waste storage'Battleship'-inspired model helps Stanford scientists plan nuclear waste storage'Battleship ...

Stanford researchers have developed a mathematical model to map the microscopic structure of materials to plan nuclear waste storage.
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How Google enables third-party circularity by increasing recycling rates with Machine Learning

Google’s CircularNet empowers recycling facilities to significantly improve waste identification and sorting, unlocking ...

Mechanical method uses collisions to break down plastic for sustainable recycling

While plastics help enable modern standards of living, their accumulation in landfills and the overall environment continues ...