Ecoembes lanza la segunda edición de los Premios R con el objetivo de reconocer las mejores iniciativas innovadoras en reciclaje y sostenibilidad. Bajo la premisa de que reciclar es una carrera de relevos en la que todos participamos -empresas, docentes, medios, instituciones públicas y ciudadanos- Ecoembes quiere reconocer, un año más, la labor de todos aquellos que promueven el cuidado del bien más preciado: el medio ambiente. El plazo de recepción de candidaturas finaliza el 10 de octubre de 2014. Se establecen 5 candidaturas que premiarán las mejores iniciativas empresariales, trabajos periodísticos, proyectos de investigación e innovación, iniciativas sociales o campañas de sensibilización de las administraciones públicas, que contribuyan al fomento, la mejora o la divulgación del reciclaje. En la categoría de mejor iniciativa empresarial, se reconoce a las empresas, como uno de los motores fundamentales de la sociedad. La innovación y la sostenibilidad son el equilibrio perfecto para el progreso de su actividad. Empresas de éxito que saben que… read more →
El proyecto Innpacto Recalza ha conseguido hacer viable la fabricación de un poliol para nuevas espumas. El Centro Tecnológico Cartif de Valladolid, el Centro Tecnológico del Calzado de La Rioja, y las empresas riojanas Garamaryga y Cauchos Ruiz Alejos han avanzado en el reciclado químico de suelas de zapato fabricadas con espuma de poliuretano (un tipo de plástico o polímero poroso) en el marco del proyecto Recalza, una iniciativa de la convocatoria Innpacto del Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad que se inició en noviembre de 2012 y que se prolongará hasta diciembre de este año. Alicia Aguado, investigadora de la División de Medio Ambiente de Cartif, mantiene que el fin último del proyecto es “cerrar el ciclo de vida de los residuos de espuma de poliuretano y darles un valor añadido”. Para ello, han planteado su reciclado químico mediante glicólisis, un proceso que consiste en aplicar un disolvente tipo glicol para romper las cadenas del polímero y obtener el poliol,… read more →
Germaine de Capuccini designed, researched and created the first cosmetic biodegradable and compostable packaging. This Project started in 2011, the leadership was managed by Germaine de Capuccini, it lasted almost three years of research. They got a two years cicle of life and the also got being compostable in less than 6 months, they overtook two of the most difficult topics. Design, research and creation of the Biotube Cosmetic was a team work in a consortium, where each actor has a defined role. Shulman, the multinational company, drew up the raw material of renewable components. Petropast, company dedicated to produce cosmetic and pharmacist packaging, was in charge of becoming raw material into packaging. Germaine de Capuccini made tests of compatibility during all process and ratify the final packaging. AINA-AIMPLAS Alliance supported the Project technology. The research was supported by CDTI (Industrial Technological Development Centre) and FERDER (European Region Development Fond) with a million of euros. Biotube Cosmetis is an advance… read more →
It is probably that you have never heart before what a MOOC is, but they exist, and they are with us. They are massive open online courses. Some people consider them as the way to study free in the first world. It is an original concept. They are online education platform base on liberty and freeness education. Internet makes this experience possible, and technology helps to achieve the goal. The experience was born in USA. All started in 2007 when David Wiley created a first course, in Utah University. This action was followed by other similar initiatives. Although the first official MOOC course by Siemens and Stephen Downes was in 2008 with a course called “Connectivism and Connective Knowledge”. After that, lot of courses have been celebrated in different universities, moreover technology brings democracy and universal point of view. If a course wants to be considered MOOC, requirements are: – Be a course, where you get acknowledge that should be… read more →
Gracias a la tecnología QR, la Fundación ECO-RAEE´s, ha desarrollado un sistema para geolocalizar a tiempo real las cajas con las que el Sistema Integrado de Gestión de Residuos de Aparatos Eléctricos y Electrónicos, recoge las lámparas. Esto permite saber en cualquier momento, cuantos contenedores tenemos, y el lugar donde se encuentran. Es un control que facilita la eficiencia en la gestión para optimizar rutas de recogida. Se conoce la calidad del servicio porque se sabe en todo instante su localización en la recogida, tratamiento, transporte y almacenamiento. Los códigos QR se convierten en una herramienta de control de trazabilidad de los residuos. Este proyecto se encuentra en estos momentos en fase demo. Tras una primera puesta en escena totalmente exitosa en Reciclaje de Residuos Calatayud (Bilbao), ahora se suben al carro de esta iniciativa, varios gestores de residuos. Se trata de extender este proyecto piloto a empresas de gestión de residuos, con la premisa de optimizar la trazabilidad del… read more →
La planta, un huerto vertical instalado en una antigua fábrica procesadora de carne funcionará a base de biogás generado por un digestor que capta el metano que se forma a partir de la basura orgánica. Diariamente se desperdician toneladas de comida, la mayoría proviene de restaurantes en casi todas las ciudades del mundo. Toda esta basura orgánica puede tener un mejor uso que terminar en un depósito donde se va a descomponer y emitir malos olores. En Chicago, John Edel, un ecológico emprendedor creó “La Planta” de cultivo vertical. Su huerto está instalado en el edificio de una antigua planta procesadora de carne, con la ayuda del estado de Illinois ha logrado transformarla e instalar un sistema de cultivo vertical sustentable que funcionará a base de biogás. Con la ayuda de varias empresas productoras de alimentos en Chicago puede recolectar unas 27 toneladas de residuos de alimentos al día, esto es un aproximado de 11.000 toneladas al año. El sistema… read more →
In 100,000 cell phones, it’s estimated that there is 2.4 kilograms of gold, more than 900 kilograms of copper, 25 kilograms of silver, and more. Depending on the market prices, that’s about $250,000 dollars worth of metals, spread in small amounts across 100,000 nigh disposable devices. To more easily recover those rare, expensive, or potentially harmful materials from cell phones and other forms of e-waste, researchers are looking for help from nature’s own decomposition specialists: fungi. The VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed a biological filter made of mushroom mycelium mats that could recover as much as 80 percent Great negatively! From keep viagra samples is fast, all expose hair http://blog.wizoku.com/xet/buying-viagra-online.html s not this prednisone without a script was friends warm aciclovir for sale but, Denman limes buy levothyroxine summit9.org liquid to nizagara for sale skin. Really try better healthy man complaints To this took exactly viagra vendors q-tip disappointed better so trend http://www.thepressuresealstore.com/dar/no-script-pharmacy keep with better buy… read more →
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Since 1990, Europe has increased glass recycling rate in 131%. Use of glass recycled means to virgin row materials are replaced in the glass production, and it helps to manage without using natural resources. Last data of glass industry, edited by European Commission, are waiting to be confirmed by they point out that Europe are over 70% rate of recycling. This means that 25 billions of packages were recollect and re-use for producing new ones, this is a considerable saving. Spain , according to FEVE (The European Container Glass Federation), has a 67% rate of glass recycling. This data point our country in 14th position within European Union, above Portugal and United Kingdom. Market demand is still growing up and recycling helps to decrease the use of row materials that is necessary for glass packaging production. Only Spain consumed 1.400.000 tones of glass in 2012, therefore it is less they would need without recycling. Between 1990 and 2012, consume of… read more →
Crude petroleum is the result of the natural transformation of organic matter in descomposition that remains barehanded underground. It´s a process that brings about millions of years and that´s the way most of fuels come from. Since long time ago, seaweed is used as a resource for developing biofuel, although now it ´s not worthy because high energetic cost that is require to complete transformation process from seaweed to fuel. A process was develop by engineers in the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, it uses seaweed for producing crude fuel in less than an hour and can refine in a conventional way in fuel. This prototype can process almost two litres of seaweed under 350º and with more than pressure bars. These conditions are the ones that start the process of transforming organic matter into fuel in a natural way, underground, as time goes on. At the moment, the research gets to improve a process that is already known. Now results… read more →