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  • GREEN = INNOVATION

    ICIS Chemical Business (the magazine I work for) published yesterday its feature on Innovations and most innovations nowadays it seems is focused on the environment. Specialty chemicals company Rhodia is certainly on top of this trend as they talked about how sustainability issues are largely affecting...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-14-2008

  • Bio-diapers on the market

    I finally found a greener diaper product that could probably help an environmentalist mom's dilemma between choosing an inconvenient washable cloth or non-biodegradable/compostable disposable diapers. gDiapers , which is being marketed (limitedly) in the US by Australian founders Jason and Kimberly...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-18-2008

  • Vegetable seed cleans up toxic soils

    Irish scientists are looking at the vegetable oilseed rapeseed, which is currently being used as a raw material to produce biodiesel, to also help clean up soils that are contaminated with heavy metals such as arsenic, copper, zinc and chromium. By injecting the rapeseed plant with metal-resistant bacteria...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-15-2008

  • Washing machines of the future

    Yesterday, all in the US were celebrating the Labor Day holiday and it was indeed a labor weekend for me. I agreed to help my sister with her house moving and not only did I find myself paper lining drawers and closet shelves, I also accompanied her into shopping for a new washing machine and dryer....
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-02-2008

  • Lanxess' green chemistry goals

    If a chemical or chemicals can help make cars reduce fuel consumption and carbon emission; help create cheaper fuel cells or solar panels; or make existing or new sources of water drinkable, does this mean the chemical or chemicals can be categorized as green? Even if they are not made from plants, bacteria...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-21-2008

  • Cleaner livestock waste

    Residents near farms or livestock processing facilities will soon breathe a cleaner (and less smelly) sigh of relief. Bion Environmental Technologies said they now have a patent approval for their phosphorus removal process in livestock waste treatment. The company said excess nutrients from livestock...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-12-2008

  • Don't throw your old newspaper!

    According to this article from the New Journal of Chemistry , Japanese researchers from Saga University were able to recover precious metals such as gold, palladium and platinum from industrial wastewater using a sorption active gel formed from chemically treating an ordinary newspaper with p-amino benzoic...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-05-2008

  • Video about eco-solutions

    I came across this really cool YouTube video from GreenTechnology.com . It features one of CNN's EcoSolutions segment about developments of biobased or energy-reducing electronics by Sony as well as Mohawk carpets made from recycled plastic bottles. Based on watching this video it occurred to me...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-17-2008
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