News Headlines
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Findings show human immune cells damaged by microplastics
Pollution
Research presented at the Plastic Health Summit in Amsterdam will reveal immune cells that recognise and attack microplastics will die quickly as a result of the contact.
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Homeless charity shop fed up being treated like costly landfill dump
Resource & 'Waste'
National homelessness charity, Emmaus, is highlighting how charity shops are often used as an alternative to landfill, reporting that one of its communities spent up to £47,000 on taking items to the tip that had been donated but were not fit to be resold.
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Grass verge harvesting for AD energy plants wins business award
Renewables
A Lincolnshire manufacturer best known for designing and manufacturing vegetable harvesting equipment has won a prestigious business award for its diversification into a new market of grass clippings to energy generation.
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Welsh tech firm find new uses for industrial food waste
Food
Water purification from crustacean shells and new fibres from apple cores – sustainable technology firm Pennotec is stopping what was once industrial food waste being sent to landfill.
