Emerging Objects’ Cheap 3D Printing Material Made from Salt, Recycled Wood and Clay
3D printing these days is not actualy... um... green. Because it uses plastic. However, a team at Emerging Objects, a small fabrication studio in...
Recycled DVDs Find New Life as Carbon Absorbers
The move towards digital storage means more and more of our old CDs and DVDs are ending up in landfill. Now recycled discs have a...
How to Encourage Others to Recycle (Nicely)
I can’t think of any good reasons not to recycle. It’s relatively easy, affordable, saves your city money, and it can make a huge...
New Low Cost, Low Energy Water Treatment Plant Engineered By UK Scientists
A team from the University of Exeter designed and built a pilot water treatment plant, specifically engineered to remove contamination from waste water from...
Coffee Grounds Can be Used to Capture Carbon
Scientists in South Korea have found a way to turn coffee grounds from waste into a cheap and effective material that captures carbon.
Coffee grounds...
Bio-plastics Made of Fructose Disappear as We Please
The solution to plastic pollution might just have been discovered. A team of US scientists developed a material out of fructose that functions just...
New Process Allows Faster, Cheaper, and Greener Conversion of Organic Wastes into Renewables
Agricultural products and woods have been used as renewable sources of biofuel and various chemicals, which are essential for producing biodegradable plastics, medicine, and...
Life without single-use plastics: the case of San Pedro La Laguna
“You don’t need a straw for beer, so why use one for soda?” argues Victor Tuch Gonzales, municipal planning director in the Guatemalan town...
New York City Produces Less Trash, But Costs Remain the Same
Trash, a common sight in New York City, is actually not nearly as common as in decades earlier. Still, garbage trucks by the hundreds...
Reducing Disposable Coffee Cup Use Is Easy
As many as 2.5 billion disposable coffee cups are thrown away every year, and coffee giant Bewley's is doing what it can to make...
