Category "Waste"

A fleet of self-sustaining vessels will collect and process mixed plastic in the world’s waterways, a nonprofit organization announced this month.

London-based design firm “PriestmanGoode” has launched a sustainably made in-flight meal tray meant for passengers, as part of its ‘Get Onboard: Reduce. Reuse. Rethink’ project.

The process lets any plastic—say a polyester shirt—be recycled into any other plastic (like a clear water bottle). It could fundamentally change the market for recycling.

Plastik mithilfe von Enzymen zerlegen und die Bausteine Bakterien schmackhaft machen, damit sie daraus Wertstoffe erzeugen. Ein europäischer Forscherverbund hat ein Konzept für ein biotechnisches Kunststoff-Upcycling entwickelt.

University graduate Jamie Pybus has designed a household system for cultivating edible mushrooms using coffee grounds.

Imperial graduate Nicole Stjernswärd has invented Kaiku, a system that turns plants into powdered paint pigments using vaporisation technology.

Whether multi-layered food packaging, power cable sheathing or a toothbrush: Many plastic products cannot be recycled.

Ocean trash from around the world was used to create a limited edition of vacuum cleaners called “Vacs from the Sea”.

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.