Bosch, DuPont and Xerox have joined the Eco-Patent Commons, a first-of-its-kind business effort to help the environment by pledging environmentally-beneficial patents to the public domain. Today’s pledges more than double the number of environmentally-friendly patents available to the public. Xerox has pledged 11 patents that form it possible to cut the instance it takes to remove toxic waste from

soil and water from years to months. Called 2-PHASE Extraction, the technology, has been used by Xerox to remove more than 98 percent of volatile organic solvents from shallow groundwater in contaminated sites.DuPont has contributed four patents to the Eco-Patent Commons, one of which involves waste reduction echnology that uses selected enzymes to accelerate the conversion of positive non-recyclable […]

Orginal post by dhiram