Greener milk: how to make cow’s nitrogen intake efficient
Research attempts to balance more efficient uptake during cows’ digestion of nitrogen feed fertiliser to help reduce the level of cattles’ flatulences responsible for generating methane, a greenhouse gas
Environment, Pollution, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, United Kingdom, Article, Bioeconomy, Food, Bioeconomy, Alexander Hellemans
Forever recyclable novel plastic thanks to old tyres
Recycling of tyres is a potentially economically sustainable enterprise providing an ingredient to make a kind of plastic for ever recyclable. But Europeans first need to overcome barriers to adoption.
Environment, Pollution, Spain, Sweden, Belgium, USA, Article, Recycling, Alexander Hellemans
Turning tyres into gas for energy and new, valuable materials
Tyre recycling represents an untapped opportunity, that may prove a success if processing costs do not become prohibitive
Energy, Nanotechnologies, Environment, Pollution, Markets, Italy, Spain, Article, Recycling, Alexander Hellemans
Guy Weets – Protecting African cities against climate-change disasters
An interdisciplinary team of scientists in European and Africa study the outlook for African cities in a changing climate, and identify their vulnerabilities 
Environment, Daily life, Italy, Climate Change, Interview, Alexander Hellemans, Africa
Eruption risk perception disconnected from detected threat
The perceived risk of having a volcanic eruption needs to match the actual risk, detected through combined technologies including remote sensing of volcanic gasses, before dire consequences can be prevented.
Environment, Society, Italy, United Kingdom, Sweden, Article, Alexander Hellemans
Biomass bonanza as plastics’ raw materials
How European scientists are a preparing for a change from a fossil-fuel to a bio-based economy.
Renewables, Germany, United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Article, Biomass, Bioeconomy, Forestry, Food, Bioeconomy, Alexander Hellemans
Patrick Kolsteren: A homegrown African research agenda for tackling malnutrition
Professor Patrick Kolsteren is a researcher contributing to the establishment of research in sustainable nutrition in Africa
Belgium, Interview, Bioeconomy, Food, Bioeconomy, Alexander Hellemans, Africa
Metals rush in domestic waste
A pilot plant for retrieving non-ferrous metals from municipal waste using advanced sensors has proven effective
Environment, Germany, Belgium, Article, Recycling, Alexander Hellemans
Alessandro Marseglia: Recycling plastic into construction materials
Researchers from Italy, Spain and Montenegro have developed a technology that allows the incorporation of recycled plastic into concrete
Environment, Italy, Interview, Recycling, Alexander Hellemans
Plastic waste set in concrete
Because plastic is widely available and not biodegradable, it is a material of choice to include as a component of light concrete
Environment, Switzerland, Italy, United Kingdom, Article, Recycling, Alexander Hellemans, Luxembourg