Category "Waste"

Study finds 800,000 extra fibres are shed than on standard washing machine setting.

“Nurdles”, also known as “mermaid tears”, pose a huge risk to the marine environment.

CARBIOS breakthrough technology enables production of PET Bottles from 100% recycled plastic waste.

Cigarette filters are composed of thousands of cellulose acetate fibres, contain thousands of chemicals and take years to disappear from the environment.

Black soldier fly maggots provide a zero waste option for organic recycling, according to Jeff Tomberlin, professor in the department of entomology at Texas A&M University.

Biofase has found an ingenious way to recycle discarded avocado pits. The Mexican company turns them into eco-friendly utensils.

O Calme combines two products: the bubble bath and the exfoliating scrub. One is the content and the other is the container.

The people of Kamikatsu have Zen-like patience when it comes to recycling. The Village aims to go “zero waste” and has 45 separate categories of recycling items.

Annual consumption of plastic bottles is set to top half a trillion by 2021, far outstripping recycling efforts and jeopardising oceans, coastlines and other environments.

Australians, for example, landfill 2,500 tonnes of waste per hour, every hour, of every day, 365 days a year.