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LEGO is turning ocean waste into playtime innovation.
New technique breaks down polyethylene and polypropylene into building blocks for new plastics.
The colour choice is largely aesthetic but the material used is unique.
Printed circuit boards made of a new type of plastic called vitrimer may solve our toxic e-waste problem to a great extent.
The paper products emit nearly 80% less CO2 and use 15 less water than traditional paper.
The technology separates fibers in the clothes, allowing them to be used again.
Most plastic products can't be recycled back into their original form. It's time to change that.
We need to change the way we think about waste.
It's challenging the notion of what non-recyclable plastic even means in the first place -- and we like it a lot!
More to the point, the decline in whale populations is affecting the health of ocean ecosystems.
Turbine blades have always been the Achilles heel of wind power -- until now.
Not a decade too soon.
Always remember the 3Rs: reduce, reuse, and recycle. But in this order!
It's only meaningful when it's powered by renewable energy, according to a new study.
Nine out of ten households said to regularly recycle and willing to do more for the environment
There's sign of decline in the near future.
The pandemic is not a green light for pollution.
The new rubber material is a 'latent adhesive' that doesn't become sticky unless you add a catalyst.
Enough to cover 83 football pitchers every day
Recycling facilities in the US can't process most of the plastics
A company developed a technology to fix the roads and deal with plastic waste
Sick of plastic waste? So are these researchers.
Many Britons are woefully unaware of the importance of recycling.
This process might finally allow for commercially-viable CO2 recycling.
Second-hand flint, ironically, was more of a precision implement that fresh flint.
That's a lot of CO2.
Mining is dirty work. But more to the point, it's very slow to set-up.
It overcomes a major hurdle in plastic recycling.
Colorado State University chemists have done the impossible: they've synthesized a fully recyclable, biodegradable polymer. Their work will not only keep countless tons of plastic from piling up in the landfills in the future, but also break petroleum's grip on the polymer industry.
When the Scottish government introduced a 5 pence tax for plastic bags, they were expecting a significant reduction, but even they weren't expecting such a big success.
A team of Mexican researchers found a way to save 20 trees and 56,000 liters of water for every ton of paper produced – just make them from old plastic bottles. Plastic is one of the main pollutants in the world – the ocean is basically a cemetery for used plastic, with at least 5 […]
Recycling is still a field where we have much work to do; while you hear talks about it everywhere, it’s still not done at a satisfying scale in most parts of the world. But Sweden is not part of that group. Virtually all of Swedish garbage is recycled; as a matter of fact, they are […]
People from Beijing can now use one of the city’s 34 newly installed facilities which allows them to pay for public transportation or charge their phone credit with empty plastic bottles. China is the world’s biggest polluter, and will likely stay so for years and years to come. The growth of their economy has been […]
For some, it might seem like recycling popped out of the blue in the 1970’s, once with introduction of the Earth Day concept or the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency. That’s only when awareness finally grew and it became a popular subject, though. Recycling under one form of the other can be traced back to ancient times, […]
Tesco recently hit the news once again in a whirlwind of controversy as it was revealed that the UK supermarket giant wasted 28,000 tonnes of food in the first half of 2013. As most of us would guess, the common wastage culprits were the typical items we’re all guilty of forgetting about, failing to use […]
Authorities have come across a giant mound of 250,000 scrap tires in rural South Carolina, so spread out that it occupies 50 hectares and is visible from space. A transportation and recycling operation of the mound has began since then. The rural clearing in which the tires were dumped is practically impossible to notice, since its only accessible […]
Take a look at your town; take a look at the people around you, at the streets, and the garbage cans. How much of the garbage do you think is recycled ? After that, think about how much trash gets labeled as “non-recyclable” by the recycling facility and will end up in a dump somwhere. […]
