Ife Ogunfuwa Nigeria has led the West African region to generate 461,300 tonnes of electronic waste in 2019, a new report by the United Nations has said.According to the UN Global e-waste monitor 2020 published on Thursday, the country is still heavily reliant on informal recycling of e-waste despite…
MassChallenge Switzerland, part of MassChallenge’s global network of zero-equity startup accelerators today announced the launch of its Sustainable Food Systems Challenge, in partnership with Nestlé, Bühler, GEA, Givaudan, Barry Callebaut, Südzucker, and Amcor.
Minuscule pliers made of soft filaments added to the ends of optical fibres can be controlled with visible light, and could be used to grip objects tens of micrometres in size, such as some individual cells.
Piotr Wasylczyk at the University of Warsaw in Poland and his colleagues made the pliers from liquid-crystal elastomer, a soft polymer material. They bend when visible light shines through attached optical fibres.
In this Special Issue, we welcome contributions which facilitate the search for win-win solutions where cost-efficient commercial urban transport can be successfully achieved with the use of electric vehicles. Suitable submissions include the adaptation of existing distribution and service logistics systems with the inclusion of electric vehicles (e.g., within city logistics concepts), fleet analysis and routing tools, lifecycle and total cost of ownership (TCO) estimations, cost and environmental impact assessment, etc. Furthermore, we welcome successful case studies demonstrating the applicability of electric vehicles for urban freight transport and logistics.