Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 03:30:33 +0000
Adidas is an industry leader in using recycled PET plastic in its products. As more companies follow its lead, the price of plastic waste may begin to rise, making it valuable enough to stop discarding it in landfills and oceans
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 21:36:06 +0000
More companies are turning away from single-use plastics as public consciousness about plastic pollution increases.
Credit to Author: Jake Richardson| Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 14:00:14 +0000
The Center for Regenerative Design and Collaboration (CRDC), which is based in Costa Rica, has been developing a process to convert waste plastic into building materials like bricks and concrete. The President and CEO at CRDC, Donald Thompson, answered some questions about the materials for CleanTechnica
Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2019 16:40:48 +0000
Creative ways to prevent food waste, which is all too common and in a country where hunger is an issue, are being pursued by Google Kitchens. That’s right, Google has kitchens. It has employees to feed and since Google is on a sustainability mission, its kitchens offer an innovative way to help with the issue of food waste
Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 17:10:02 +0000
Smart cities are key to a better future. By 2030 it is predicted that globally some 125 billion devices will be connected in our cities – monitoring everything from people and traffic movements, to human health, space and energy use, and air quality – all to better manage the efficiency of our urbanizing world. Watch these free films to learn more about smart city design and smart city living from around the world
Credit to Author: Scott Cooney| Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2019 12:14:57 +0000
Most of us want to live in a world without waste. The problem is, it’s everywhere. Buy organic food? It’s often wrapped in plastic. Produce? Bioplastic bags don’t cut the mustard for some foodies (how did cut the mustard become an expression?). Order a pallet to buy in bulk? Guess what — stuff is effectively saran wrapped onto the pallet to keep it from sliding around. Turns out, plastic is useful
Credit to Author: Jesper Berggreen| Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2019 02:00:13 +0000
So, imagine you are driving along in your fancy high-tech car, minding your own business, with your yet-to-be-feature-complete full self-driving software activated, and suddenly the car slams the brakes to a full stop, like a donkey that had an epiphany that what it was doing just didn’t serve any purpose and therefor just refused to move any further. The silicon brain of your clever-as-a-donkey-robo-car just slammed on the brakes because it saw this through one of its cameras
Credit to Author: Madeleine Gregory| Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 12:59:38 +0000
Reporter Ian Urbina spent years at sea reporting on maritime crime. His new book exposes the strange world that few on land ever experience.
Read moreCredit to Author: eestopace| Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2019 12:57:51 +0000
Dozens of shipping containers full of waste will be returned to France and other developed countries, Indonesia said Tuesday.
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Credit to Author: Jelisa Castrodale| Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2019 16:32:47 +0000
The bags are printed with logos like The Colon Care Co-Op, Dr. Toew’s Wart Ointment Wholesale, or the Into the Weird Adult Video Emporium.
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