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Researchers at Princeton Engineering have found a way to turn your breakfast food into a new material that can cheaply remove salt and microplastics from seawater.
Researchers at Princeton Engineering have found a way to turn your breakfast food into a new material that can cheaply remove salt and microplastics from seawater.
Developed by a group of graduate students from Imperial College and the Royal College of Art, the Tyre Collective uses a patent-pending technology to capture the unseen synthetic rubber expelled by car tires. The prototype can be suspended from each wheel's steering knuckle, just above where the tire meets the road, to capture the microplastic fragments released through friction every time the car brakes, accelerates or turns a corner.