Rice, planted abundantly in California, has for centuries fed millions in India, China and the rest of Asia. But the silica-rich rice straw - an agricultural waste product - is typically burned ...

Despite the environmental laws prohibiting the improper disposal of rice straws, such as the Solid Waste Management Act of 2000 (Republic Act 9003) and the Clean Air Act of 1999 (Republic Act 8749), ...

Fibers from rice stems left in fields after the grain’s harvest could wind up in fabrics adorning furniture, car interiors, and people. That’s the prediction of textile scientists who have for the ...

MANILA, Philippines — A UK-based firm has launched a new rice straw biogas hub in Laguna, establishing a two-hectare facility designed to process 10,000 metric tons (MT) of the plant material annually ...

For the first time, researchers at Kobe University and RIKEN successfully elucidated the biochemical and biofuel-producing materials contained in rice straw. Future applications include using these ...

The Rice Straw to Biogas project is a collaboration between Straw Innovations, QUBE Renewables, the University of Southampton and the Supergen Bioenergy Hub based at Aston University (formerly based ...

Every harvest and milling season, rice straws—or dayami—are often discarded as waste in agricultural fields due to the lack of economic and technical means to process them. Some farmers resort to ...

Willows >> Work has begun on CalPlant 1 LLC, which will eventually be turning post-harvest rice straw into fiberboard for furniture construction. For weeks, truck after truck has been delivering baled ...