Separating gold from the surrounding rock and eliminating potentially harmful waste is important for gold recovery. Sonestie Janse van Rensburg, Senior Scientist from Mintek, South Africa, highlights the process of advanced gold leaching.
Markus Schmid, Florian Wild and Karin Agulla, all of the Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging IVV, Freising, Germany, outline the initial results of a project to produce recyclable and biodegradable packaging from dairy products.
Joseph Hotchkiss is anxious to bring academia in sync with industry demand. As Director of Michigan State University’s School of Packaging, USA, he hopes to steer the department into practical development. Ledetta Asfa-Wossen finds out more.
The past 18 months have been hard for the clay industry, but despite this, sustainability has remained a priority. John Richards, Sales and Marketing Director at Ibstock, shows why brick has retained its popularity.
No other subject than bioplastics is so hotly debated in the plastics
industry, and yet, it is not always clear what the term means. This article provides some background information.
A risk assessment model to identify and quantify the environmental hazards of disposing of drilling discharges in the marine environment is described by Paul Page of BP Exploration Ltd, UK, and Mark Reed and Henrik Rye, both of SINTEF Materials and Chemistry in Norway.
Recycling carbon fibre composites is not straightforward, yet there are strong financial and energy incentives for saving the fibre from landfill. This article presents current mechanisms for retreval of the fibres.
