Paper waste could be the solution to oil spills
(Phys.org)—Every year approximately 3 billion tonnes of waste are generated in the European Union. But not everything that gets thrown away is necessarily junk; in fact as one European research project is proving, one person's waste could be another's treasure. European researchers from the Technological, Environmental and Logistics Centre (TEC Ltd) in Slovenia have successfully transformed waste from paper mills into a product that can effectively soak up fuel from leaks or oil from spills. The research group was 60 % co-financed by the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP) Eco-Innovation Project's Executive Agency for Competitiveness and Innovation (EACI), receiving EUR 923,007 in funding to assist them in the 'process of industrialisation and the market uptake' of their technology.