Greener Materials & Processes

Fitness Fads and Their Environmental Price Tag

Tamzin Preece: The ‘home gym’ didn’t feature in many UK homes before the pandemic, but it’s now much more commonplace to own various bits of kit for home workouts. Within the first three months of lockdown alone, exercise bike sales rose…

From Fertilizer to Fuel: Can ‘Green’ Ammonia Be a Climate Fix?

Yale Environment 360: In Minnesota, there’s a research farm peppered with wind turbines that, when in full swing, boasts an astonishingly low carbon footprint. The wind powers a chemical plant that makes ammonia, which can not only be spread as fertilizer under…

Loughborough leads Zero Carbon Loss biomanufacturing project

The Engineer: A Loughborough University-led project aims to develop a sustainable biomanufacturing system with integrated carbon capture and utilisation through a novel electrochemical approach. Funded through an EPSRC Sustainable Manufacturing grant, the project is pushing to lower emissions within UK manufacturing…

New scheme for creating a stable artificial photosynthesis device

Materials Today: A research team has developed a new artificial photosynthesis device with remarkable stability and longevity for converting sunlight and carbon dioxide into two promising sources of renewable fuels – ethylene and hydrogen. In a paper on this work in…