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Five tips for a sustainable Halloween

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Tuesday, October 17, 2023

However, as you prepare to send shivers down the spines of your friends and family, you may not have given much thought to the environmental footprint that this holiday conceals.

Key Points: 
  • However, as you prepare to send shivers down the spines of your friends and family, you may not have given much thought to the environmental footprint that this holiday conceals.
  • In the UK alone, more than 8 million pumpkins are thrown away each year over Halloween.
  • If you’re looking to partake in the spooky festivities of Halloween, here are five tips to ensure you can give people a good fright without harming the environment.

1. What to do with your pumpkin

    • If you do plan on carving a pumpkin this year, make sure you throw it into a food waste bin.
    • But if you still want to experience the fun of carving a pumpkin, then make sure it isn’t wasted by baking some pumpkin pie, roasting its seeds in the oven, or simply roasting segments of pumpkin as a savoury treat (even the skin is edible).

2. Cut down on buying new

    • However, many of these decorations – from cackling witches to vampire bat lights – are electrical.
    • In 2019, global electrical and electronic waste generation stood at around 54 million tonnes, amounting to around 7.5kg per person.
    • And bottles can be filled with water and a few drops of food dye to make a collection of witches’ brews.

3. Ditch single-use plastic

    • But sweets are often individually wrapped in plastic.
    • Many single-use plastics don’t get recycled and, because plastic doesn’t break down naturally, it can stay in the environment for hundreds of years.

4. Make your own costume

    • These outfits not only contribute to the accumulation of plastic in landfills, they are also a source of harmful microplastics.
    • Even if you don’t throw away your costume, tiny plastic fibres are released from the fabric every time you wash it.
    • And, although it may be an old standby, everyone has an old sheet somewhere that can be used as a ghost costume.

5. Less is more

    • A crucial element in making this future a reality is only using what we need instead of an excess.
    • So, when making choices about how to have a happy Halloween, think before you consume.
    • By following these tips, you can have a fun, freaky – but also sustainable – Halloween.

Rare Earth Metals Market Trends, and Analysis Report 2023-2030 - Rising Demand for Clean Technologies Propels Global Demand - ResearchAndMarkets.com

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Thursday, September 7, 2023

The rare earth metals market report provides an executive-level overview of the rare earth metals industry worldwide today, with detailed forecasts of key indicators up to 2030.

Key Points: 
  • The rare earth metals market report provides an executive-level overview of the rare earth metals industry worldwide today, with detailed forecasts of key indicators up to 2030.
  • This market intelligence report offers a thorough, forward-looking analysis of the global rare earth metals market by product, application, and key opportunities in a concise format to help executives build proactive and profitable growth strategies.
  • Accompanying the publisher's Forecast products, the report examines the assumptions, drivers, deals, strategic initiatives and trend analysis in rare earth metals markets.
  • The report evaluates the entire value chain of the rare earth metals market space while highlighting the key players of the industry.

Have we really found the first samples from beyond the Solar System? The evidence is not convincing

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Wednesday, September 6, 2023

He has even hypothesised that the spherules are actually debris from an alien spacecraft.

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  • He has even hypothesised that the spherules are actually debris from an alien spacecraft.
  • I commented at the time that I’d need firm analytical evidence to accept such interpretations.
  • Loeb has now provided a very detailed set of analytical data of 57 spherules in an article submitted to a journal.
  • But it has not yet been subject to the peer review that academics require before they accept research as legitimate.
  • Such particles are referred to as “cosmic spherules” and normally come from asteroids within our Solar System.

Other explanations

    • This is unlikely – iron meteorites from within the Solar System are the most affected by melting and this would explain the results.
    • Other possibilities that Loeb considers are supernovas (infinitely hot exploding stars) and cool, luminous stars (known as “asymptotic giant branch” stars, where cool is still incredibly hot).
    • A supernova results from the catastrophic implosion of a stellar source, producing bursts of neutrons to form new elements.
    • The isotopic composition of those elements has been measured in many grains found in meteorites.
    • But they differ from the spherules described by Loeb because they are very small – only a few microns at most.

Rare Earth Salts Announces Commercial Scale Production of Heavy & Light Rare Earth Elements Using Breakthrough Technology

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Tuesday, August 29, 2023

“The need for securing both domestically sourced rare earth elements and domestic rare earth element processing infrastructure is critical,” said Dr. Joseph Brewer, Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Rare Earth Salts.

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  • “The need for securing both domestically sourced rare earth elements and domestic rare earth element processing infrastructure is critical,” said Dr. Joseph Brewer, Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Rare Earth Salts.
  • Rare Earth Salts’ patented processes’ capital expenditure (CAPEX) and operating expense (OPEX) are highly cost-competitive versus traditional rare earth separation and refining.
  • Rare Earth Salts has developed industry-changing commercial processes to produce three of the “BIG 4” most critical rare earth oxides: neodymium, praseodymium and terbium.
  • In addition to its terbium and yttrium production, Rare Earth Salts recently produced hundreds of kilograms of high-purity NdPr from light rare earth concentrate feedstock.

Unicycive Therapeutics Provides Regulatory Update on Lanthanum Dioxycarbonate Program

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Thursday, June 29, 2023

LDC is an investigational new drug being developed for the treatment of hyperphosphatemia in chronic kidney disease patients on dialysis.

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  • LDC is an investigational new drug being developed for the treatment of hyperphosphatemia in chronic kidney disease patients on dialysis.
  • As previously noted, the Agency had requested a 6-month toxicity study in mice comparing LDC and lanthanum carbonate (LC), the drug substance in Fosrenol®, the Reference Listed Drug for the 505(b)(2) regulatory pathway.
  • As part of the clinical development program, two clinical studies were conducted in over 100 healthy volunteers.
  • Based on the topline results of the bioequivalence study, pharmacodynamic (PD) bioequivalence of lanthanum dioxycarbonate to Fosrenol was established.

Traction Uranium Reports KLS Winter Drill Program Analytical Results

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Wednesday, June 7, 2023

CALGARY, Alberta, June 07, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Traction Uranium Corp. (CSE: TRAC) (OTC: TRCTF) (FRA: Z1K) (the “Company” or “Traction”) is pleased to announce the final analytical results of the winter 2023 diamond drilling program at the Company’s Key Lake South Property (the “KLS Property”).

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  • CALGARY, Alberta, June 07, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Traction Uranium Corp. (CSE: TRAC) (OTC: TRCTF) (FRA: Z1K) (the “Company” or “Traction”) is pleased to announce the final analytical results of the winter 2023 diamond drilling program at the Company’s Key Lake South Property (the “KLS Property”).
  • The KLS property is located in northern Saskatchewan, approximately 6 kilometres southwest of Cameco’s Key Lake Uranium Mill and along the south flank of the Athabasca Basin.
  • Highlights of 2023 Geochemical Results:
    All 2023 drill holes contained trace amounts of uranium averaging 4.33 ppm over 419 samples.
  • Analytical results indicate that the majority of basement-hosted elevated gamma ray “counts per second” (cps) originated from anomalous thorium (Th) values.

Global Rare Earth Metals Market to 2031: Rising Electric Vehicle Sector Drives Growth - ResearchAndMarkets.com

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Thursday, June 8, 2023

These earth metals are classified into heavy earth metals and light earth metals.

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  • These earth metals are classified into heavy earth metals and light earth metals.
  • The growing trends in automobile section, electric vehicle sector and consumer electronics industry is mainly stimulating the demand and growth of worldwide rare earth metals market across the globe.
  • Among the various rare earth metals types, cerium oxide evolved as the highest contributor to the total market share of the rare earth metals market all across the globe .
  • The fluctuating costs of the rare earth metals and the high level of availability of these rare earth metals in regions like China are the factors that can hinder the growth of the global rare earth metals market.

Global Rare Earth Elements Market Trends, Opportunity, and Forecasts Report 2023-2028 with Focus on China's Influence on the Market - ResearchAndMarkets.com

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Thursday, May 18, 2023

The "Rare Earth Elements Market: Global Industry Trends, Share, Size, Growth, Opportunity and Forecast 2023-2028" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

Key Points: 
  • The "Rare Earth Elements Market: Global Industry Trends, Share, Size, Growth, Opportunity and Forecast 2023-2028" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
  • The global rare earth elements market size reached US$ 9.5 Billion in 2022.
  • Cerium, neodymium, erbium, holmium, lanthanum, praseodymium, yttrium, and dysprosium are some of the widely used rare earth elements.
  • Key Questions Answered in This Report:
    What was the size of the global rare earth elements market in 2022?

Major Deposits of Magnetic Rare Earth Elements Discovered at Ramaco Resources Mine in Wyoming

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Wednesday, May 3, 2023

These deposits contain these valuable REEs on par with conventional REE deposits, but with much less of the low-value lanthanum and cerium that must be removed by separations.

Key Points: 
  • These deposits contain these valuable REEs on par with conventional REE deposits, but with much less of the low-value lanthanum and cerium that must be removed by separations.
  • Based on this data, the Brook Mine could rank among the more promising deposits on a worldwide basis, including Chinese HREE deposits.
  • There is currently only one active mine for magnetic REEs in the United States, located near the Mojave Desert in California.
  • The current exploration target encompasses a range between roughly 636,000 and 795,000 in place tons of 100% total rare earth oxide ("TREO") with all concentration grades.

TDK Ventures invests in pH7 Technologies for clean extraction and recycling of critical metals

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Monday, March 27, 2023

This investment reflects TDK Ventures' commitment to supporting innovative solutions that can help address the global energy transformation by transforming the metal supply chain.

Key Points: 
  • This investment reflects TDK Ventures' commitment to supporting innovative solutions that can help address the global energy transformation by transforming the metal supply chain.
  • "TDK Ventures will support pH7 Technologies in their mission to create a more sustainable and efficient metal-extraction process," said Nicolas Sauvage, President of TDK Ventures.
  • By investing in pH7 Technologies, TDK Ventures contributes to a more sustainable metal supply chain that can support global energy transformation.
  • The investment also reflects TDK Ventures' focus on investing in technologies that can have a positive impact on the environment and society.