Image : Dreamstime When people think of sustainable living, they often imagine expensive organic products, solar panels, or high-end electric cars. While these investments certainly...
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Wind Turbine Blades Aren’t Recyclable, but We Can Upcycle or Repurpose Them
When it comes to renewable energy, wind turbines are quite well-loved. There is more wind-generated energy thanks to them. But as we know, not everything...
Used Cooking Oil? Fuel? – How Some Initiatives Turn Cooking Oil Waste Into Power
As a regular person, I still have my own concerns when it comes to cooking oil. I mean, despite disposing of them in ways which...
Utilizing Empty Office Buildings: Cities Planning to Use Them for Vertical Farms
Due to the pandemic over three years ago, employees had to be forced out of their office spaces. But now, even though everything has gone...
Capturing Microfibers and Upcycling Them may be Possible in the Near Future, New Research Says
We all know it: microfiber is another long-term problem like microplastic. And so far, we’ve only tried to prevent and reduce it even though microfiber...
What to Do with Abandoned Mines? We Turn Them into Long-term Energy Storage Solutions
It is true that wind and sun are widely used renewable energy nowadays. However, they’re not the most consistent source that we need for a...
Startups Aiming to Make Earth Greener that You Should Check Out
Maybe you’ve been thinking that the world’s so not like what it used to be, in terms of climate and the environment. And, you’ve been...
Salt-tolerant Bacteria can Turn Waste Sludge into Bioplastics
Being a big country, United States generates about 7 million tons of sewage sludge annually. It’s true that some of this waste becomes manure and...
This Hong Kong NGO Recycles Soap from Five Star Hotels
I’m not gonna lie, I love hotels. I get to be treated like someone special there and I don’t have to do much, but everything...
Seaweed Can be Invasive, but We Can Turn It Into Biofuels or Fertilizers
Since we’ve talked about invasive species for quite some time here, we all know now that any species can be invasive and harmful towards the...
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