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Marks & Spencer announces carrier bag charging success
M&S has announced that it has achieved an 80% reduction in the total number of food carrier bags used since the UK-wide launch of carrier bag charging in early May. This means that M&S customers have used over 70 million less plastic bags in the last ten weeks alone. With all profits from the 5p charge going to charity, in the same period, over GBP 200,000 has been raised for M&S’ environmental charity partner, Groundwork. The money is being invested in creating or improving ‘Greener Living Spaces’ such as parks, play areas and gardens. From this funding, five projects are already ... |
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MIT students seek to harness waste heat
MIT`s cogeneration plant, which provides most of the electricity, heat and air conditioning for the campus, could get even more efficient if a team of students` project to harness surplus heat works as expected. Andy Muto and Daniel Kraemer, graduate students in mechanical engineering, and Bryan Ho, a graduate student in materials science and engineering, have been working together on a thermoelectric system that could be installed in a hot-water pipe, or in exhaust flues at the plant, to get some extra electric power from heat currently going to waste.
Thermoelectric devices are solid-state ... |
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Screw Compactor Type SK 370H for EPS
This screw compactor compacts EPS (e.g. fish boxes) in ratios of up to 50:1. This achieves a density of approx. 300 kg/m³. The machine is shown here with a feed hopper designed for manual feeding of fish boxes, etc. Custom solutions supplied where necessary. The machine is fitted with hydraulic / electronically-controlled jaws which allow it to maintain an almost constant compression pressure.
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