Apple‘s efforts to improve its recycling has an end goal of becoming a "closed-loop" manufacturer in the future, an extremely difficult goal to accomplish, and one that would end the need to mine for new materials if achieved by the iPhone maker. Link:
Mais »When recycling fails, how will we deal with the tonnes of plastic waste we produce?
Recycling may feel good, but in practice, it often just means dumping plastic in Southeast Asia for other countries to deal with. And when they cant, plastic often ends up in landfill anyway. So how to remedy the situation? Link:
Mais »Chennai residents resist waste management facility in their areas
Elangovan E.V. filed a complaint with the Chennai Corporation about public health issues caused by a decentralised waste management facility in a residential area of Kilpauk on December 30, 2019. Link:
Mais »These two friends have produced 11 lakh tiles from 340 tonnes of plastic waste
Shayna EcoUnified founded by Paras Saluja and Sandeep Nagpal partners with scrap dealers and NGOs to procure plastic waste, which is then used to produce tiles. Link:
Mais »Less food waste in 2020
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), food waste refers to the decrease in the quantityquality of food resulting from decisions and actions by retailers, food service providers, and consumers (http://www.fao.org/food-loss-and-food-waste/en/). Link:
Mais »Sustainable Funerals, Water Cremation, Human Composting: Colorado Is All About Alternative Burials.
Ed Gazvoda is not a fan of the idea of being buried in the ground after he dies. Link:
Mais »Seattle will soon get world‘s first human composting site
Seattle, Washington, will soon become home to the world‘s first "human composting" site, a place where individuals can have their postmortem remains slowly decompose into soil. Link:
Mais »Tokyo 2020 bed makers reassure athletes recycled beds wont collapse during sex
Australian basketball player Andrew Bogut questioned whether the sustainable eco-friendly beds being used in Japan this summer will withstand the athletes late-night antics Link:
Mais »Danish company Too Good To Go eyes new American front against global food waste
App has saved more than 5,000 bags of Starbucks leftovers in Poland Link:
Mais »New technique could accelerate waste-to-methane production
In a recent study, environmental engineering master‘s student Bappi Chowdhury and his colleagues found that adding conductive materials to the waste products could potentially turn them into a reliable feedstock, allowing for a production rate of up to 70 percent more biomethanea renewable energy sourcefrom a mixture of fat, oil …
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