Discarded silk yarn can clean up polluted waterways
November 14, 2024
November 14, 2024
ITHACA, New York, Nov. 14 -- Cornell University issued the following news:
Cornell researchers have developed an elegant and sustainable way to clean up waterways: reusing one waste product to remove another.
Led by Larissa Shepherd, M.S. '13, Ph.D. '17, assistant professor in the Department of Human Centered Design, in the College of Human Ecology, the team has proposed using discarded silk yarn for the removal of dye and oil from water. Studies on several different fo . . .
Cornell researchers have developed an elegant and sustainable way to clean up waterways: reusing one waste product to remove another.
Led by Larissa Shepherd, M.S. '13, Ph.D. '17, assistant professor in the Department of Human Centered Design, in the College of Human Ecology, the team has proposed using discarded silk yarn for the removal of dye and oil from water. Studies on several different fo . . .