A file photo of a modern plant of waste sorting and recycling, and some beer (inset). Heavy metals from electrical waste recycling could be filtered using beer-brewing yeast. ISTOCK / GETTY IMAGES ...

h) Heavy metal filtration by plant amyloid-carbon hybrid membranes. Credit: Chemical Engineering Journal (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2022.136513 ...

When the membranes were used to filter water contaminated with lead, platinum and chromium, they were found to remove up to 99.89 percent of those heavy metals, allowing the water to meet ...

A kilogram of her product, at a cost of 23 cents, can clean up 1,000 liters of water contaminated with heavy metals. “It would be a dream come true for my invention to become a reality,” she says.

The Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM) and Electronic Recyclers International (ERI) are hosting a free ...

Plant-based amyloids from food waste for removal of heavy metals from contaminated water. Chemical Engineering Journal, 2022; 445: 136513 DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2022.136513 ...

Scientists decontaminate heavy metal water using protein from plant waste (Nanowerk News) Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), in collaboration with ETH Zurich, ...