Waste material from discarded televisions can be made useful for medical purposes, University of York scientists say, by recycling them.
The researchers say that they have found a way to recover the chemical compound polyvinyl-alcohol (PVA) from television screens, and transform it into a substance which could be suitable for use in tissue scaffolds which help parts of the body regenerate.
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The Imperial City which is high in the cool hills of eastern Brazil, the tourist hot spot, is now attracting worldwide attention thanks an innovative scheme to recycle human sewage.
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Professor James Clark, director of the York Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence and one of the author's of the research, said: "With 2.5 billion liquid crystal displays already reaching the end of their life, and LCD televisions proving hugely popular with consumers, that is a huge amount of potential waste to manage."
He added: "It is important that we find ways of recycling as many elements of LCDs as possible so we don't simply have to resort to burying and burning them."
Raising a Toast With Recycled Urine
It was a toast a bit like no other when astronauts on the International Space Station drank to their health for the first time with water recycled from urine, NASA said.
It was a toast a bit like no other when astronauts on the International Space Station drank to their health for the first time with water recycled from urine, NASA said.
Given that this material does not provoke a response from the human immune system, the researchers say that it may be suitable for use in biomedicine.
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Local alcoholics in Glasgow are storing and donating empty beer cans to help build a coomunity church entirely from recycled materials.
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