Researchers discover an usage for old tea bags
Josie Ford
Paved with excellent tea
What to do with all the waste from preparing zillions of cups of tea? Scientists in Malaysia propose transforming a few of it into facilities.
Mohammad Al Biajawi at University Malaysia Pahang Al-Sultan Abdullah and his group summary both the issue and their strategy to assault it: "The yearly usage of a nation's population of numerous lots of black tea leads to substantial varieties of disposed of teabags. These big amounts are gotten rid of in garbage dumps ... The objective of this research study is to experimentally examine the result of [carbon nanotubes] from tea waste on the mechanical and fresh homes of cement mortars."
They recommend how to best set about this, in a paper called "Investigation the impact of nanocarbon tube prepared from tea wast...