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Process to Upcycle Mixed Polyolefins

Executive Summary Polyolefins are used in a myriad of applications including packaging. Increasingly, there is a growing need for identifying ways of recycling mixed polyolefins that appear in municipal waste streams as the polyolefins are not compostable or biodegradable. While methods such as pyrolysis have been used to transform the plastic mixtures...
Published: 6/10/2024   |   Inventor(s): Muhammad Rabnawaz, Laurent Matuana, Tanyaradzwa Muzata
Keywords(s):   Category(s): Environment, Materials, Packaging, Recycling

Biodegradable Slow Release Pesticide Plugs and Mechanized Injection System

Executive SummaryProfitability in domestic and global fruit markets requires meeting high food quality standards, often through the judicious use of pesticides. Currently, these pesticides are applied using airblast sprayers up to 10 times per growing season. Airblast sprayers deliver only 29 to 56% of the sprayed solution to the tree canopy. A new...
Published: 5/24/2023   |   Inventor(s): John Wise, Christine Vandervoort, Charles Coslor, Laurent Matuana
Keywords(s):   Category(s): Agriculture, Agricultural, Chemicals, Environmental