Chemical recycling is a potential alternative to mechanical recycling that could improve recycling rates and prevent plastic from reaching landfills.
By Kerry Taylor-Smith
21 May 2021
Honey bees are just one of the 20,000 known species of bees. Although small in number, they have an enormous role in supporting global food production. Worryingly, the numbers of these critical pollinators are dropping.
By Kerry Taylor-Smith
20 May 2021
Plastic waste is increasingly being recycled into plastic flakes or pellets that can be remolded into new products. Global brands are increasingly using these recycled plastics over virgin plastics in their products and packaging. Better Plastic™ is one such product, created by Indian company Banyan, using proprietary plastic recycling technology.
In many developed parts of the world, older residential buildings are energy inefficient, and so renovating them to make them more efficient is a major opportunity to reduce carbon emissions. A German startup called ecoworks has taken this notion a step further and devised eco-friendly building solutions that include turning renovated houses into decentralized power plants.
DyeCoo has developed a revolutionary textile system that it hopes will have a significant impact on carbon emissions and the environment if it is adopted on a worldwide scale.
Award-winning cleantech company, CCm Technologies, has developed an innovative method of producing sustainable fertilizers from captured carbon dioxide. The technology is set to significantly reduce the volume of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere from industrial power generators, while at the same time limiting the negative impact of unsustainable fertilizers.
Kabadiwalla Connect – an Indian technology start-up – is working to transform waste collection and management in cities in the Global South by using the Internet of Things (IoT) and building on the contribution of existing informal networks.
A California-based cleantech pioneer – Blue Planet Ltd. – is learning from nature to make concrete more sustainable with biomimetic carbon capture. The company’s economically sustainable carbon capture process creates a limestone rock substitute that can replace aggregate for concrete, significantly reducing the material’s ultimate environmental impact.
Bitcoin and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are the digital equivalents of cash and collectibles. Their value has recently risen dramatically, but the electricity needed to mine them is more than is used by entire countries and results in huge volumes of carbon emissions. At a time when many countries are targeting zero emissions, bitcoin and NFTs represent a real threat to the environment.
By Kerry Taylor-Smith
10 May 2021
Carbon-negative biochar alternatives to fossil-based plastics are emerging as a practical, cost-effective, and workable solution to excess carbon dioxide in the air and seas.