Can you imagine a cell phone that has practically zero waste? Where are the components of the phone can be reused in some fashion? It may sound too good to be true, however an article from Nexus Media, an online newswire covering climate, energy, policy, art and culture, reports that a team of researchers are…
The following is a recap of the HOBI blog during the week of 12/11-12/15. U.K. students research cheaper tools for identifying plastics Team Matoha, a group composed of four undergraduate students at Imperial College London, is looking into developing low-cost instruments that will manually identify and sort plastic materials based on resin type. OEM representative…
A team of four undergraduate chemistry and physics students at Imperial College London are trying to develop low-cost instruments that will manually identify and sort plastic materials based on differing types of resin. Students Martin Holicky, Han Chan, David Dai and James Kung, are working towards re-thinking how near-infrared spectrometers are designed and constructed to…