{"id":213402,"date":"2025-05-07T01:03:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T06:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/soundwave-recycling-technology-turns-forever-chemicals-into-renewable-resources"},"modified":"2025-05-07T01:03:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T06:03:42","slug":"soundwave-recycling-technology-turns-forever-chemicals-into-renewable-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/soundwave-recycling-technology-turns-forever-chemicals-into-renewable-resources","title":{"rendered":"Soundwave recycling technology turns \u2018forever chemicals\u2019 into renewable resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/soundwave-recycling-technology-turns-forever-chemicals-into-renewable-resources3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new technique that uses soundwaves to separate materials for recycling could help prevent potentially harmful chemicals leaching into the environment.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Leicester have achieved a major milestone in <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/fuel+cell\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">fuel cell<\/a> recycling, advancing techniques to efficiently separate valuable catalyst materials and fluorinated <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/polymer+membranes\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">polymer membranes<\/a> (PFAS) from catalyst-coated membranes (CCMs). The articles are published in <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.rsc.org\/en\/content\/articlelanding\/2025\/su\/d4su00795f\" target=\"_blank\"><i>RSC Sustainability<\/i><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1350417725001099?via%3Dihub\" target=\"_blank\">Ultrasonic Sonochemistry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This development addresses critical environmental challenges posed by PFAS\u2014often referred to as \u201cforever chemicals\u201d\u2014which are known to contaminate drinking water and have serious health implications. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rsc.org\/policy-evidence-campaigns\/environmental-sustainability\/sustainability-reports-surveys-and-campaigns\/cleaning-up-uk-drinking-water\/\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Society of Chemistry<\/a> has urged government intervention to reduce PFAS levels in UK water supplies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new technique that uses soundwaves to separate materials for recycling could help prevent potentially harmful chemicals leaching into the environment. Researchers at the University of Leicester have achieved a major milestone in fuel cell recycling, advancing techniques to efficiently separate valuable catalyst materials and fluorinated polymer membranes (PFAS) from catalyst-coated membranes (CCMs). The articles [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1490,1495,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-government","category-health","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}