World’s first industrial facility to recycle diapers and sanitary napkins in Italy
Diapers and sanitary napkins are widely used, take half a million years to decompose and, at least until now, they end up in landfill....
Cost of Carbon Capture Just Got Lower Thanks to New Tech
In view of the alarming rates of global warming, ongoing discussions in Katowice are evaluating measures of decarbonizing the economy. With the energy sector...
How Big Data Helps Mitigate Climate Change
In the past decade, the increasing availability of data and computational resources led to the merger of traditional statistics, computer science and visualization under...
Top 10 Environmental Milestones of 2018
Coming closer to the end of the year, it is quite natural to take a step back and review what has happened in the...
Singapore Students Invent Chewable, Recyclable Straw
Three Singaporean industrial design students designed the first chewable, reusable straw. It can be reassembled and stored in a pocket-size case, which you can...
Climate Change Conference in Katowice: Countdown for action and costs for inaction
December 2nd, 2018 sees the opening of the 24th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)....
World’s Newest Ocean Plastic Waste Recycling Initiatives
The oceans are choking with plastic. Plastic waste enters in the food chain, settles on the ocean floor, gets washed off the beaches, or...
Zerowaste Getting Around Packaging Waste
Zerowaste Netherlands recently released a video to demand different packaging policies from supermarkets. Indeed, even fruit and vegetables which come in their natural packaging,...
Koffeeform Makes Recyclable Cups From Coffee Grounds
Koffeeform, a promising new startup from Berlin, offers fully recyclable, eco-friendly coffee cups, made from leftover coffee grounds.
Last week I brought to you a...
Disposable Coffee Cups- Antisocial Trend, Bad for the Environment
Disposable coffee cups are nothing but a fashion trend, which unfortunately has a huge impact on our environment.
A recent article by Lloyd Alter on...
