Five people pose beside outdoor heat pump units. Photo Source: Nancy W. Stauffer | MIT Energy Initiative.

MIT Study: Electrifying Home Heating Could Cut Emissions by 30% and Reduce Costs

Picture this: your home heating system not only keeps you warm but also helps fight climate change. This isn’t just wishful thinking – it’s becoming reality through electric heating, according to new research from MIT. Right now, heating our homes creates a lot of pollution. While power plants have cleaned up their act – cutting harmful emissions by 34% since 2005 – the way we heat buildings still pollutes heavily, only reducing

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Plastic Recycling. Photo Source: Fraunhofer.

German Scientists Convert 5.6M Tons Plastic Waste Into 99.8% Pure 3D Printing Filaments

In German laboratories, plastic bottle caps that once held your morning milk are being reborn as precision-engineered components through an innovative recycling process that converts post-consumer packaging waste into high-purity 3D printing filaments. Every year, some 5.6 million metric tons of plastic packaging winds up in household waste in Germany after being used just once.

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