Coconut shells are usually treated as agricultural waste. But after a little chemical transformation, they could become part of something we drive on every day: asphalt. Researchers have found that turning coconut shells into biochar and adding it to asphalt can make the material stiffer, stronger and more resistant to …
What happens when the waste left behind after making olive oil is put back into the soil? Scientists in Italy spent eight years testing exactly that. In an olive orchard near Assisi, researchers repeatedly added olive pomace, the solid residue left behind after olives are processed for oil, to some …
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