Plastics are one of the world’s largest polluters, taking hundreds of years to degrade in nature. A research team, led by YSE professor Yuan Yao and Liangbing Hu from the...
BRINK spoke to Barbara Reck, YSE Sr. Research Scientist and node lead Systems Analysis & Integration at The REMADE Institute, a public-private partnership established by...
Garbage, trash, discards, waste—humans create it with nearly everything we do, and it impacts our ecosystems and our communities in diverse and often unanticipated ways.
The...
Older, bulkier electronics are disappearing from the waste stream, with ramifications for the future of e-waste recycling.
A recent study published in Nature Sustainability, co-authored by postdoctoral associate Stijn van Ewijk, finds that the full benefits of paper recycling can only be realized...
Yuan Yao, whose research examines the environmental and economic impacts of emerging technologies and industrial processes, has been named assistant professor of industrial...
Researchers at Yale have created a model that enables more accurate calculations of the environmental footprints associated with a range of industrial processes — and the...
