A team of scientists from India have used tea and banana waste to prepare non-toxic activated carbon.<\/p>\n
This is useful in industrial pollution control, water purification, food and beverage processing, and odour removal.<\/p>\n
The newly developed process avoids using any toxic agent for synthesizing activated carbon, thus making the product cost-effective and non-toxic.<\/p>\n
The structure of tea was beneficial for conversion to high-quality activated carbon, but it involves using solid acid and bases, which is toxic; hence a non-toxic method of conversion was needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"