The collaboration is set to incorporate up to 32% UBQ material into polystyrene to offset carbon emissions.

The large-scale investment will help UBQ build a large-scale facility in the Netherlands by the end of next year.

Tato Bigio, founder of UBQ Materials, proposes a more holistic understanding of waste management, sustainability, and the circular economy.

The drastic changes that characterized our lives during the initial phases of the pandemic were also reflected in our waste, according to new research.

Applied CleanTech has developed a sewage mining system that picks out and recycles useful fibers from raw urban and industrial wastewater, increasing the efficiency of treatment plants and reducing the amount of unwanted sludge.

It is estimated that 25 to 30 percent of water in pipelines worldwide is wasted due to outdated infrastructure and leaks. Israeli company TaKaDu aims to reduce that number by using maths to detect problems in water systems.