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How this market turns 10 tons of food waste into energy every day
At India's Bowenpally market, unsold vegetables get turned into energy that powers buildings, stree…
Daniel T. Allen,Katie Nixdorf…
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How one company is turning used chopsticks into furniture, shelves, and countertops
ChopValue, a Canadian company, repurposes millions of chopsticks every year as shelves, furniture a…
Daniel T. Allen,Yasmina Hatem…
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Inside a Swedish H&M store where recycling machines are making new clothes from old fabric
Fast-fashion retailer H&M is betting clothing recycling could eventually solve some of the industry…
Emily Harger,Elizabeth McCaul…
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Why refrigerators are so hard to recycle
A recycling company in Guatemala is working to keep the powerful greenhouse gases inside refrigerat…
Elizabeth McCauley,Dylan Barth
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A company in India has found a way to recycle cigarette butts into toys and mosquito repellant
Two-thirds of all smoked cigarettes are littered every year. One company has found a way to reuse t…
Prakhar Deep Jain,Will Storey…
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How one Dutch company is making vegan leather from mangoes
The cofounders of Fruitleather hope their company will reduce food waste while making the leather i…
Katie Nixdorf,Emily Harger
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How gold is mined from electronic waste using microbes
A New Zealand startup has found a way to extract gold from old circuit boards using inexpensive che…
Elizabeth McCauley,Emily Harg…
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How gold is mined from electronic waste using microbes
A New Zealand startup has found a way to extract gold from old circuit boards using inexpensive che…
Elizabeth McCauley,Emily Harg…
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World No-Tobacco Day: As the menace of cigarette butt pollution continues, Lee Cooper weaves jeans out of them
Each pair of these eco-jeans cleans up approximately 600 cigarette butts! The jeans have passed all…
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Around 2.5 billion tonnes of food is wasted every year contributing to a 10% rise in greenhouse gases, reveals WWF and Tesco report
The first-of-its-kind report since 2011, indicated that 40 per cent of all food is not consume…
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How one startup is turning harmful algae into plastic shoe parts
A startup is turning algae into foam, which could clean up local waterways. We went to Mississippi …
Elizabeth McCauley
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A new machine is helping French chefs recycle old bread into a flour substitute, and it could reduce food waste
France has banned supermarkets from throwing out food, but 150,000 metric tons of bread are tossed …
Anna Muckerman,Will Storey
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We visited the world's first "secondhand mall" where shops like Ikea repurpose and sell old products
ReTuna is the world's first secondhand mall. Located next to a recycling center, the Swedish mall r…
Emily Harger,Abby Narishkin
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A biotech company is making vegan bacon, leather, and a Styrofoam-like packaging out of lab-grown mushrooms
Mushroom-based products are easier on the environment compared to traditional alternatives, and cou…
Will Storey,Daniel T. Allen,E…
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How this Gen Z founder got the coolest girls in the world to wear her jeans, from Taylor Swift to Hailey Bieber — and built a multi-million dollar denim brand
Emily Bonvicini, 25, started EB Denim while in high school. It's now been worn by Kylie Jenner and …
Kelsey Vlamis
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Global economy braces for slowest growth in three decades, World Bank report warns
The global economy is hurtling towards its weakest half-decade performance in 30 years, according t…
ANI
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The world is watching the war in Ukraine through drones, and it twists the view of who is winning this fight
Footage of drone attacks on tanks and troops comes in constantly, feeding a larger information war …
Chris Panella
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Schools are beginning to throw out expired Chromebooks, creating 'piles of electronic waste,' report says
The US PIRG Education Fund found Chromebooks sold around the world in the first year of the pandemi…
Britney Nguyen
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A 600-foot 'garbage belt' has taken over a Chinese UNESCO world heritage site and is overwhelming local herders tasked with cleaning it up
Years of trash building up in the tourist-filled region has littered the region with swathes of pla…
Matthew Loh
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A cookie-less tea party and a digital agency
Finally, it is time. The reason why I quit a traditional digital agency almost 7 years ago and …