Research conducted by the West Midlands Air Quality Improvement Programme at the University of Birmingham has shown that charcoal air filters in the £10-£20 price range are extremely effective at protecting car occupants from NO2 emissions.
Around 9m tonnes of lithium batteries become essentially unusable every year and are incinerated or sent to landfill. Nottingham Trent University’s Advanced Design and Manufacturing Engineering Centre (ADMEC) have been awarded a £582,000 grant as part of a Europe-wide effort to mitigate this waste.