Rice husk, the hard-protective layer that envelopes the inner grain of rice, constitutes approximately 20%-25% of the entire rice structure and produces a considerable amount of by-products. In a ...

The construction industry, a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, is under increasing pressure to adopt sustainable practices. One promising avenue lies in the utilization of agricultural ...

Yes, rice, which contains a crucial tire material normally found in sand. Here's why Michelin is turning food into rubber. Michelin says sustainable silica does not come from sand. As part of its ...

Although various uses for post-harvest rice husk waste are being explored, the stuff is still usually either incinerated, dumped in landfills, or at best composted. Soon, however, rice husks may be ...

Milling rice to separate the grain from the husks, produces about 100 million tons of rice husk waste globally each year. Scientists searching for a scalable method to fabricate quantum dots have ...

North Korea has designed a power plant to generate electricity from rice husk, according to the Pyongyang Sinmun newspaper. The newspaper said the scientists of the Heat Technology Research Institute, ...

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company announced Monday it will begin using ash left over from the burning of rice husks to produce electricity and an environmentally friendly source of silica for use in ...

From TVs, to solar cells, to cutting-edge cancer treatments, quantum dots are beginning to exhibit their unique potential in many fields, but manufacturing them at scale would raise some issues ...

A rice husks disposal site worker Mugendi Kiava lights up the commodity near Murubara village, Mwea. Notice his bare feet despite the hot fire beneath the sludge. [Photo: Munene Kamau/standard] For ...

The building sector is the second largest sector in plastic consumption and is responsible for more than a third of energy related greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. Manufacturing processes of ...

A lorry being loaded with fodder in Mwea where the commodity is readily available from area rice farmers at a cost of Sh150 per bail. PHOTO: MUNENE KAMAU/STANDARD KENYA: For years, farmers in Mwea had ...