pollution and recycling

4 billion disposable coffee cups find their way into the trash every year. Source: pixabay.

The real price of a cup of coffee

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Tiny, self-propelled robots kill bacteria and can help make water drinkable. Figure: American Chemical Society

Swimming robot bacteria can eliminate real dangerous bacteria in drinking water

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Barack Obama drinks from Flint water after the end of the crisis. Photo: Official White House Photo by Pete Souza.

Deadly water

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A graphic illustration depicting how sugar and carbon dioxide are converted into plastic. Courtesy of Georgina Gregory.

Plastic produced from sugar and carbon dioxide

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Urban landscape with trees. Better to focus on lower vegetation. Photo: Vladimir Kudinov.

The generous discourse

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Membrane for water purification. High economic viability. Source: Weizmann Institute magazine.

Recycle membrane

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Exposure to chronic air pollution is equivalent to two years of accelerated aging in terms of cognitive ability. Photo: Wiebrig Krakau.

Aging in a polluted world

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wax worm. Source: USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab.

Will the wax worms lead to an ecological solution that the world is waiting for?

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Ito's home pyrolysis machine can turn our plastic waste into liquid fuel and thus reduce our dependence on external energy sources. Source: pixabay.

Make plastic fuel at home

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Following the implementation of recommendations by the Technion experts, there has been a dramatic reduction in the total volume of fuel leaks in Israel in the last 16 years, mainly in leaks from gas stations. Photo: Photo by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas.

The fuel guard

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long term vegetables

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Prof. Esti Segal from the Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering. Courtesy: Nitzan Zohar, Technion Spokesperson.

packing future

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That is, about 2.5 million tons of food at a cost of about NIS 18 billion is lost every year. Photo: TAZ.

save the food

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Fleece jackets. Up to 110 kilograms of fiber per day. Photo: thinkretail, Flickr

Are our clothes poisoning the sea?

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[Aldo Lobos Three strains of fungi capable of recycling cobalt and lithium from rechargeable battery waste. [Courtesy: Aldo Lobos]

Recycling precious metals from phone batteries with the help of mushrooms

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Cycle cage in Tel Aviv. Most of the plastic will end up in China. Photo: Fatemeh.flickr

Where does our plastic go?

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Forest fire. Photo: shutterstock

LG B'Omer "enriches" the earth with acid rain.

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XNUMXD visualization of the Fukushima nuclear reactor. Image: shutterstock

A new method for neutralizing nuclear waste in groundwater

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Victoria - British Columbia. Photo: shutterstock

The price of pollution

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The sensor system can detect a tiny amount of pollutants in the water and warn of their presence there. Photo: Ideum – ideas + media, Flickr

Caution, leak!

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Scientists from Spain have developed a sensor system that will help prevent the spread of dangerous substances leaking into the sea
A coral reef damaged by global warming and toxins. Photo: shutterstock

Research: Sunscreen - danger to corals

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A Volkswagen Jetta car, as photographed in Russia on September 16, 2015. Photo: g0d4ather / Shutterstock.com

How was Volkswagen caught cheating on emissions tests by the American Association for Clean Air?

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A polluting power plant. Photo: shutterstock

Single-stage carbon dioxide capture and conversion

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Crab shells. Photo: shutterstock

Water purification using crab shells

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A computer chip consisting of a substrate of cellulose nanofibers is placed on top of a leaf. [Image: Yei Hwan Jung, Device Nanoengineering Laboratory, University of Wisconsin-Madison]

A semiconductor chip composed of wood

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Crossing environmental boundaries

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Richard Feynman quote on reusable paper. Photo: University of California

Innovative reusable paper

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Students from the Technion break down the oil that leaked in Ein Evrona using bacteria. Photo: Technion

A group of students from the Technion will help restore the prairie using bacteria

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Moshe Abgi from the campaign to stop the use of disposable bags, 2014

where is the plastic

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Plastic joint bacterium. Photo: Beihang University, China

A bacterium from the guts of moth larvae to break down plastic

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The oil pollution in Arava, near Kibbutz Beer Ora. Photo: Nature and Parks Authority

Stopping projects to produce clean electricity due to the drop in oil prices - a short-term view

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: Dr. Shai Levy, University of Haifa

A tadpole of a 2-headed salamander is in the animal ecology laboratory at Haifa University

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gas pipes. Photo: shutterstock

An efficient and economical method for detecting natural gas leaks

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pollutants Photo: shutterstock

A biological method for purifying toxic pollutants

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A field that became a landfill in Thailand. Photo: shutterstock

The toxic and carcinogenic substance dioxin is also created by burning waste

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The process of strengthening water bottles while reducing their weight. Illustration: Unicer company

Taking direction

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sea ​​pollution. Illustration: shutterstock

The blue today is very gray

Cows graze in an illegal landfill in India. Photo: shutterstock

eat plastic

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Air Pollution. Illustration: shutterstock

The deadly combination of global warming and local air pollution

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Disposable plastic bags endanger the planet. Illustration: shutterstock

Minister Peretz submits the law to ban the free distribution of disposable bags

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A coral reef damaged by global warming and toxins. Photo: shutterstock

A team of researchers from the USA and Israel: a chemical found in many cosmetic products endangers coral reefs

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Electronic waste dump. Photo: shutterstock

Lack of information hinders efforts to reduce e-waste

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Fluorescent bulb from Wikipedia

A new machine will allow the recycling of fluorescent bulbs

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Haifa University researchers fertilize a bed with coffee waste. Photo: Haifa University

At Haifa University, coffee will be used as an organic fertilizer for growing plants

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water purification. Illustration: shutterstock

An application introduces environmentally friendly materials for removing organic pollutants from water

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A modern car engine. Photo: shutterstock

How do the new diesel engines work so that they emit less greenhouse gases?

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rocket fuel Credit: www.lbl.gov

Life on poison / David Bailo

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Dry land in a drought. Photo: from Wikipedia

The West (or rather the North) is to blame for the long drought in Africa

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Naor Yerushalmi, CEO of Haim and Environment. From his Twitter page

Environmental organizations warn: the elimination of the citizen protection system under the guise of streamlining regulation

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A chicken soaked in oil from a spill from an offshore oil well off Oakland-San Francisco Bay on July 11, 2007. From Wikipedia

Seabirds as a measure of ocean pollution

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