Explainers, teardowns, and myth-busting on waste management systems and green engineering.
The End-of-Life Vehicles Regulation mandates 15% recycled plastic from 2032 and 25% from 2036. To see why that is difficult, follow a car through the shredder.
A Chinese research group reports converting food waste into single-cell protein using salt-tolerant marine microorganisms. The salt tolerance is a genuine engineering advantage. Feed approval is where this stalls.
Larvae turn organic waste into protein in about two weeks with high conversion efficiency. Whether that protein can legally be fed to anything is decided by regulation, not by biology.
Loci Controls put a language model over the largest continuous dataset of landfill gas wellhead behaviour. The useful part is not the model — it is that the data density regulators are about to require makes interpretation the bottleneck.
Laboratory plastic is regulated waste before it is a material. A new on-site system shreds, disinfects and dewaters it where it is generated, so what leaves the building is polymer flake rather than a hazard consignment. The step from flake to product is the one still missing.