Doing double duty in the circular economy—creating foam glass from waste materials
Porous ceramics hold great promise as value-added products for waste materials. Two recent ACerS papers explore creating foam glass from waste.
Source: ceramics.org
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SUSTAINABILITY
CertiPUR-US® is an internationally recognized certification program administered by a not-for-profit organization. When you buy products containing CertiPUR-US®-certified foam, you can be confident that the flexible polyurethane foam inside has been analyzed by independent, accredited laboratories and has undergone rigorous testing to ensure it meets the latest standards for content, emissions and durability – It’s a certification you can trust. Sinomax® memory foam carries the CertiPUR-US® Seal. We proudly manufacture quality memory foam with no fillers in our Nashville Tennessee facility. Learn more: certipur.us
Not-so-fast fashion? Captured carbon incorporated in fabric of Zara dress range | Envirotec
A collaboration between biotech firm LanzaTech and Spanish clothing retailer Inditex has led to the design of a capsule collection for the latter’s largest brand Zara, incorporating fabric seemingly made from waste carbon emissions. LanzaTech’s biological process captures and converts steel mill emissions that would otherwise be emitted into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide. It recycles the emissions into Lanzanol (ethanol) through a fermentation process. The Lanzanol is then converted into low carbon monoethylene glycol by the company India Glycols, and this is then converted into low carbon polyester yarn by Far Eastern New Century (FENC). This yarn has been used to make fabric for a Zara capsule collection of party dresses.