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AGreenLiving
MAY 31, 2021
Recently unveiled by SeaCleaners, the Manta hybrid catamaran is designed to combat the oceans’ plastic pollution in a brand new way. Using a biomimetic design, a hybrid propulsion system and a power supply from renewable energy sources, the high-tech boat will not only collect ocean waste but process it as well.
Green Business Bureau
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
Choosing reclaimed wood reduces the fossil fuel use and pollution that comes from clearing and processing trees into lumber. Recycling metal rather than using virgin ore helps preserve natural resources and saves energy. In fact, creating products from recycled steel utilizes 40% less water and reduces mining wastes by 97%.
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Unsustainable
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
Everyone has heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and the damage caused to marine life by plastic pollution in the oceans. For a long time, the experts believed that cleaning up the gyres was impossible: it would take too long and be too costly as well as energy-intensive.
Grist
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
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. Space travel has been criticized, then and now, as a waste of money and resources and a distraction from more pressing problems. Others argue that it was a coincidence.
Business Green
JANUARY 6, 2022
Bulky mixed rigid plastic accounts for 70 per cent of plastics produced, and makes up 60 per cent of the waste plastic sent to landfill or incineration in the UK and EU today. Its most recent and highly promising project seeks to determine the viability of recycling high value polymers from currently incinerated medical waste.
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