waste
Data-Driven Solutions to Waste Management Challenges
Scrapp Founder Brings Engineering Rigor and a Practical Approach (Source: john / stock.adobe.com; generated with AI) Based on an interview with Mikey Pasciuto Despite numerous public service campaigns and policy improvement initiatives, meeting waste management goals remains a significant challenge. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) asserts that from 1990 to 2015, US-recycled municipal solid waste…
Disposable vapes: Unnecessary, excessive waste in cylindrical shapes
My recent teardown of a rechargeable vape device was…wow…popular. I suspected upfront that it might cultivate a modicum of incremental traffic from the vape-using (and vape-curious) general public, but…wow. This long-planned follow-up focuses on non-rechargeable (i.e., disposable) vape counterparts, in part fueled by my own curiosity as to their contents but more generally and predominantly…
From high school science project to $18.3M: AI-accelerated enzymes are coming for fast fashion’s plastic waste | TechCrunch
A U.K. startup, originating from founder Jacob Nathan’s high school science project on using enzymes to break down plastic waste, has secured an oversubscribed $18.3 million in Series A funding. Founded in 2019 in London, Epoch Biodesign now a 30+ strong multidisciplinary team of chemists, biologists and software engineers. It will be using the new…