♻️ Green Tech
☀️ Solar energy accounted for close to half of all new electricity in the United States last year
Solar power will be by far the largest source of new electricity in 2022, according to a report from the US Energy Information Administration, EIA. A total of 46.1 GW of new electricity production will be taken into use in 2022, and 21.5 of these GW will come from...
🚗 Less emissions in Sweden – in spite of traffic increase
Despite the fact that car traffic increased by four percent and truck traffic by six percent last year, total emissions from road traffic decreased by 0.3 percent, according to the Swedish Transport Administration, Trafikverket.A major reason for the decrease is that...
📃 Nano paper – an environmentally friendly alternative to plastic packaging
Plastic is very practical as a packaging material. It's easy to process, transparent, and is suitable as a barrier between what we want to wrap and the dirt and bacteria from the outside world. Unfortunately, plastic is made from oil, and it is not...
♻ New method for plastic recycling could mean greater payoff
Recycling plastic is very good for the environment, but in many places around the world, it's cheaper to throw away the plastic and make new instead of recycling. A research team from the University of Bath in the UK now hopes to change that.Researchers have...
