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How Much Of That Plastic In Your Blue Bin Really Gets Recycled? [Video]
So, if you’re anything like me, you know exactly which plastics can go in your blue recycling bin, and which can’t.
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These Water Bottles Are Designed For Reuse As Roofing Tiles
Donald Thomson spent five years designing a water bottle for commercial use that could be repurposed into roofing tiles for affordable housing. More
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How Much Waste Can One Million Clean Cookstoves Prevent? [Video]
I’ve been writing about clean cookstoves for years: these simple pieces of technology are wonders of sustainability. They address dangers to human health posed by open-fire cooking; they also free up...
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Happy World Toilet Day! [Video]
Non-profit Ohorizons celebrates World Toilet Day by talking to New Yorkers about the water they drink, and the water they flush. More
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The Waste Biz: Are Waste Sorting Robots The Answer To Recycling Industry Woes?
With low oil prices and other challenges, the recycling industry’s been having a tough year staying profitable.
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Waste Heat Recovery… From The Sewer? Canadian Firm Harvests Wasted Hot Water...
We’ve discussed all sort of energy harvesting possibilities from sewage, but nearly all of those were tied to the waste material floating in that water.
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Brooklyn Design Firm Figures Out How To Print 3D With Potato Chip Bags [Video]
Does 3D printing have promise for reinventing manufacturing, as well as some other specialized tasks? Yes… but, for now, it still strikes me as a way to produce tchotchkes, knick-knacks, and trinkets...
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Is Food Waste Largely A Communications Problem?
Maria Rose Belding created the MEANS database to create an easy means of communication that could help avoid food waste, and address hunger. More
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The Waterless Toilet That Can Charge Your Phone
As we’ve noted many other times before, toilets are key tools in the fight against disease in the developing world.
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Palm Oil From Food Waste? A Process That Could Create All Sorts Of...
As we noted recently, food waste is a threat to wildlife.
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What Does Copyright Have To Do With Your Right To Repair? Plenty…
An available, efficient repair infrastructure could contribute significantly to a reduced waste stream: why toss and replace
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Running Your Car On Apple Peels? The Sodium-Ion Battery That Harnesses Food...
The notion of turning food waste into energy isn’t new to us here at sustainablog… but it almost always involves the production of biogas through anaerobic digestion.
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Compost Water Heaters And The Allure Of Jean Pain
French inventor Jean Pain figured out ways to harvest the heat produced by composting for heating water and air. More
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How Companies Can Reduce The Waste and Toxicity of Medical Plastics
By Brian Toomey Plastics are one of the cornerstones of modern industrial society. They are a blessing and a curse — while on one hand plastics are infinitely customizable with their properties, on...
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An Innovative Breakthrough In Storing And Reusing Coal Ash
Site of coal ash spill at Eden, NC, 2014 By David Guion Burning coal produces a variety of residue collectively known as
View ArticleThe Clean Cook Stove that Runs Partially on Trash [Video]
I’m still fascinated by clean cooking technology for the world’s poor, as cooking kills in the developing world – more people die for respiratory diseases brought on by cooking smoke than from HIV/AIDS...
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Recycling Cooking Oil Into Fuel
Restaurants, commercial kitchens, government institutions and private homes use about 3 billion pounds of cooking oil every year. Until recently, much of the waste oil got fed to pigs or poured down...
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Finding the Value in Plastic Waste: the Plastic Bank
One of the ideas that pushed me towards a focus on waste issues was that power of the word “waste” itself: when we attach it to an item – or a class of items or materials – we render it valueless. But...
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How to Build a House with Cardboard Boxes: ECOR
Kids love to build forts and houses out of cardboard boxes… and we pat them on the head, and say “That’s so cute!” New building material ECOR takes this notion beyond child’s play: this corrugated...
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Toshiba to Get Energy From the Ocean
The well known Japanese company Toshiba and its perhaps not as well known co-patriate IHI have been tapped to pilot a new ocean energy project that will deploy a phalanx of underwater turbines that...
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