Archive for September 26, 2012

Green Discovery Uses Waste Glass to Clean Up Water

A simple method to convert waste glass into a material which can be used to remove pollutants from contaminated water has been developed by Dr Nichola Coleman from the University of Greenwich’s School of Science.

From left: Dr Nichola Coleman and Cameron Abercrombie, final year Chemistry student from the University of Greenwich. (Credit: Image courtesy of University of Greenwich)

Nichola Coleman, a Senior Lecturer in Materials Chemistry at the university’s Medway campus says: “The novelty of the research is that the glass can be recycled into something useful — nobody has previously thought to use waste glass in this way.” Read more