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A Water Crisis Reveals You Can't Recycle in the Arctic
A week-long water crisis that has left residents of Nunavut's capital city Iqaluit without drinking water is also exposing a chronic problem for many northern communities: It's almost impossible to safely get rid of garbage.
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How can Coca-Cola solve its plastic problem?
The drinks company has been named the world's biggest plastic polluter.
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Lego is finally making its iconic bricks from recycled plastic
Lego is finally on its way to making its iconic toy bricks more sustainable. The toymaker unveiled this week a prototype brick made entirely of recycled plastic — but it's not yet available in stores.
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A circular food system can withstand crises like COVID-19 — and provide delicious meals
There are many hard lessons learned from the pandemic; one is that our food system needs a serious reboot. Luckily, we need only look to nature’s cycles for clues on how to fix it.
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Plastic waste can now be turned into jet fuel in one hour
Scientists have found a new way to convert the worlds most popular plastic, polyethylene, into jet fuel and other liquid hydrocarbon products, introducing a new process that is more energy-efficient than existing methods and takes about an hour to complete.
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Electric cars: What will happen to all the dead batteries?
"The rate at which we're growing the industry is absolutely scary," says Paul Anderson from Birmingham University. He's talking about the market for electric cars in Europe. By 2030, the EU hopes that there will be 30 million electric cars on European roads.
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Researchers report possible solutions for hard-to-recycle plastics
Millions of tons of plastic end up in landfills every year. It's a big societal problem and an even larger environmental threat. In the United States, less than 9% of plastic waste is recycled. Instead, more than 75% of plastics waste ends up in landfills and up to 16% is burned, a process that releases toxic gases into the atmosphere.
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VIDEO: Is Recycling Worth It Anymore? People On The Front Lines Say Maybe Not
As America continues to lead the world in per capita waste production, it's becoming more and more clear that everybody — from manufacturers to consumers — "over-believes" in recycling.
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Our Improved PlayStation 5 Packaging
Over the last 50 years plastic use worldwide has increased around twentyfold, but recycling rates remain low at around 9%.1 This has contributed to increased pollution of the world’s oceans, a matter of growing urgent concern. Action is needed now to reverse course and protect endangered marine ecosystems.
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World's First Plant to Recycle All Forms of Plastic Begins Construction
There is no doubt about it. We have a plastic problem. According to Plastics Europe, 350m tonnes of plastic is produced annually, and only 9% of that plastic is ever recycled. This plastic pollutes our oceans and shows up everywhere as microplastics. More alarmingly, according to the World Economic Forum, this problem is predicted to increase tenfold by 2025 if solutions aren’t found.
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University of Birmingham builds UK's first recycling plant for high-performance rare earth magnets
The UK’s first re-manufacturing line for high-performance sintered rare earth magnets for use in electric vehicles, aerospace, renewable energy technologies and low carbon technologies will be developed by the University of Birmingham.
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Exports of US plastic garbage rise, despite ban
Even though it’s now illegal for most countries to accept all but the purest forms of plastic scrap from the United States, there’s nothing that prevents the United States from sending the waste. The main reason: The United States is one of the few countries in the world that didn’t ratify the global ban.
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New rules to tackle ‘wild west’ of plastic waste dumped on poorer countries
International convention to stop richer countries exporting contaminated material for recycling could mean a cleaner ocean in five years
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Coca-Cola branded world’s worst plastic polluter for third straight year
Coca-Cola has been branded the world’s worst plastic polluter for the third year in a row, in a damning report that further reveals the scale of the global plastic crisis. In its annual audit of plastic waste found on beaches, rivers, parks and communities across the globe, Break Free From Plastic found Coca-Cola bottles were by far the worst offender.
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Amazon and Apple 'not playing their part' in tackling electronic waste
Global giants such as Amazon and Apple should be made responsible for helping to collect, recycle and repair their products to cut the 155,000 tonnes of electronic waste being thrown away each year in the UK, MPs say. An investigation by the environmental audit committee found the UK is lagging behind other countries and failing to create a circular economy in electronic waste.
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Scientists Found A New Way To Break Down the Most Common Plastic
The plastics industry produces over 88 million tons of polyethylene, the most common plastic in the world. Scientists have found a new way to upcycle it, according to a study published in Science. It could help deal with the growing plastic pollution crisis.
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Plastic Eating Bacteria - Reengineering for Efficiency
Scientists show how re-engineering enzymes from a plastic eating bacteria, can provide us new avenues in plastic degradation.
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City garbage collection is finally getting the disruption it deserves
Stockholm and Bergen are among dozens of cities ditching trash cans in favor of vacuum chutes that woosh waste away through a series of underground pipes.
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California passes first-in-nation plastics recycling law
In a move aimed at reducing huge amounts of plastic litter in the ocean and on land, California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a first-in-the-nation law requiring plastic beverage containers to contain an increasing amount of recycled material.
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HP's first Intel 11th-gen laptops use recycled ocean-bound plastics
HP's latest 13-, 14- and 15-inch Pavilion clamshell laptops are the company’s first to use post-consumer-recycled and “ocean-bound” plastics.
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