Hong Kong Government Set to Levy Glass Bottles to Help Recycling
The Hong Kong government is planning to put a HK$1 levy on each bottle to help defray the cost of local recycling. According to...
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...
Adding Beer Waste to Bricks Improves Their Heat Insulation Properties
If every time you had a beer, you were overwhelmed by a guilty feeling that the beer brewing byproduct ends up in landfills, worry...
New Recycled Plastic Bottles Made from 100% Ocean Plastic Debris
Method and Envision Plastics proposes recycling of ocean plastic debris into new, eco-friendly recycled plastic materials that can make up our future disposable bottles.
We have...
Dear Human, Please Use Dear Human’s Tiles Made of Recycled Paper
Being a brand new house owner can be very exciting. You have all these ideas for renovating and refurbishing that keep popping up in...
Why Reusable Shopping Bags Help the Environment
There is a lot of plastic that is thrown away on a daily basis. It is easy for businesses to offer great bags, and...
BMW And Boeing Sign Deal To Develop And Recycle Carbon Fiber
Carmaker BMW is planning on using carbon fiber for the production of passenger cells for its i8 plug-in hybrid-electric car and i3 electric car,...
Guinness World Record for 45,000-Milk-Carton Tetra Brik Pavilion
To mark World Recycling Day in Spain, CUACS Arquitectura unveiled a quite remarkable pavilion built using 45,000 milk cartons. In conjunction with RESUR, a...
Novel bio-inspired materials to substitute plastics
Researchers from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) developed a novel approach to manufacture biodegradable substitutes for plastic.
The team make use of...
The Future Of Plastic Bags, Between Recycle and Ban
Plastic bags, the super thin disposable items that are typically used for a few minutes and then dumped at a landfill site to degrade...
