Explainers, teardowns, and myth-busting on waste management systems and green engineering.
New York's mandatory food-scrap programme nearly doubled collection in FY2026. It still captures 8% of available organics, and a second round of ticketing barely moved participation.
A PBAT and PLA blend with TUV OK Compost Home certification. The disintegration is tested. The barrier performance and the microplastic question are not.
Coway has launched a kitchen unit that digests food scraps with microbes cultured from doenjang rather than grinding and drying them. The mechanism is genuinely different. The throughput ceiling and the missing data are the story.
Six nines of disinfection, 90% organics removal, reusable water and biogas — announced without an energy balance, a cost figure, or a recovery yield. A teardown of what the numbers do and do not say.