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How to Build and Retrofit a Sustainable Home

Green Business Bureau

Choosing reclaimed wood reduces the fossil fuel use and pollution that comes from clearing and processing trees into lumber. RECYCLED STEEL. Recycling metal rather than using virgin ore helps preserve natural resources and saves energy. RECYCLED PLASTIC. minority and women-owned suppliers).

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The Ocean Cleanup Bags Its First Lot of Trash

Unsustainable

Everyone has heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and the damage caused to marine life by plastic pollution in the oceans. The plan is to find a way to recycle the recovered plastics so that the project begins to pay for itself. The Ocean Cleanup is also ready to scale up System 001/B, but needs more financial backing.

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The Overview Effect

Grist

There’s an irony here: In order to gain this more-than-sky-high perspective, astronauts and space tourists have had to take an incredibly polluting journey. Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from the outside, is available,” Fred Hoyle, an English astronomer, wrote in 1948, “a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.”

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Top five green innovations to watch in 2022

Business Green

Innovate UK's Jonny Voon explores some of the most exciting green ideas this year, ranging from UK lithium mining and plastic recycling breakthroughs, clothing that 'grows' with the children wearing it. Impact Recycling. Currently, only up to 15 per cent of plastic is recycled. tonnes of CO2 for every tonne of plastic recovered.