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The Manta is a hybrid catamaran that will collect floating plastic

AGreenLiving

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. Its design allows the Manta to extract microplastics from 10 mm upward and up to 1 meter deep.

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How to Build and Retrofit a Sustainable Home

Green Business Bureau

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%. Cascade Steel’s electric arc furnace (EAF) is more energy efficient and environmentally-friendly than traditional blast furnaces.

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The Ocean Cleanup Bags Its First Lot of Trash

Unsustainable

Mathur While cleaning up plastic pollution in the oceans will take multiple strategies, including reducing plastic usage and preventing the garbage from reaching the ocean, The Ocean Cleanup’s project is driven by the urgent need to reduce the size of the massive garbage patches that are actively harming sea life.

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Top five green innovations to watch in 2022

Business Green

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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The Overview Effect

Grist

Space travel has been criticized, then and now, as a waste of money and resources and a distraction from more pressing problems. 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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Carbon Accounting: How To Lower Your Carbon Footprint

Green Business Bureau

From switching to renewable energy suppliers to retrofitting workspaces and conducting energy audits, the tips we give are to be used as guidance, along with your carbon footprint report, to help you develop a carbon-neutral strategy. . 1: Switch to a renewable energy supplier . 3: Increase efficiency of office lighting.

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Carbon Accounting: How To Lower Your Carbon Footprint

Green Business Bureau

From switching to renewable energy suppliers to retrofitting workspaces and conducting energy audits, the tips we give are to be used as guidance, along with your carbon footprint report, to help you develop a carbon-neutral strategy. . 1: Switch to a renewable energy supplier . 3: Increase efficiency of office lighting.

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