Discarded silk yarn can clean up polluted waterways

November 18th, 2024

Cornell University researchers have developed a sustainable way to clean up waterways by reusing one waste product to remove another. Led by Larissa Shepherd, assistant professor in the Dept. of Human Centered Design, College of Human Ecology, the team has proposed using discarded silk yarn for the removal of dye and oil from water.  Studies on […]

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