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Watch: Vegan leather made out of mangoes
A company in the Netherlands is utilizing what would otherwise be wasted food to create vegan leather. Fruitleather receives free leftover mangoes from the quality control sector of a Dutch fruit...
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Norway tells military to return their undies and bras after service so new...
In Norway, there's nothing new about men and women in the military returning their uniforms after serving 12 to 19 months so that new conscripts can wear them. But now they must also return their...
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"Pacific Magazine Billing" sent me a bill for a magazine I don't subscribe to
I don't subscribe to any magazines. The only paper magazine I've purchased in the last few years is an issue of Monocle I bought two months ago and haven't read yet. So I was surprised to receive an...
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This factory in India makes teddy bears stuffed with used cigarette butts
Naman Gupta of Noida, India, started a business making teddy bears stuff with used cigarette butts. He pays ragpickers to collect butts in the street. Then Gupta's employees carefully separate the...
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Chopsticks are a massive waste problem. This company recycles them.
Across the globe, we humans throw away more than 80 billion pairs of chopsticks every year. AtlasObscura explains: For more than 5,000 years, chopsticks have been the preferred dining utensil of a...
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In Belgium, you can recycle your hair
An NGO in Belgium is collecting human hair from salons to recycle it into big squares that act as sponges for water pollutants. Project Co-founder Patrick Janssen, explaining that 1 kilogram (2.2 lbs)...
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1000 aluminum cans transformed into a beautiful electric guitar
How does one turn 1000 aluminum cans into an electric guitar? Burl's Art shows us his process from start to finish. He collected soda cans for over a year from camping trips and BBQs. Next, he spent 3...
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Sewage to be recycled into drinking water, as California battles drought
One of the many strategies California has been planning to help manage its limited water resources is coming to fruition. After a decade of work, the draft plans for using highly purified sewage as...
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Lego gives up on making bricks with recycled plastic, for now
Lego developed high-quality bricks made of recycled plastic, but producing them uses so much energy the carbon footprint is even worse. It's giving up on its plan to introduce them for sale, for now....
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Plastic bag recycling project gives up the ghost
A key national plastic bag recycling project is shutting down following a recent ABC News exposé. The operators cite industry indifference, lack of funding and credibility problems such as those...
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A brief history of the recycling lies told by the plastics industry
Watch as the plastics industry is called out for decades of fake recycling claims. Turns out trash isn't the only thing they're full of. Recycling has been a story fed to consumers to make us believe...
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NASA offering $3 million for lunar recycling ideas
The plan for NASA's Artemis program includes multiple moon missions, with the ultimate goal of establishing Artemis Base Camp, the first permanent outpost on the moon. While it's not the most glamorous...
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Black plastic take-out containers may be toxic
You may want to throw out your black plastic cooking utensils and swap your food out of that takeout container while you are at it. A recent study in the journal Chemosphere found toxic flame...
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