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Upcycling and Repurposing: How to Spruce Up Your Kitchen While Minimizing Waste

U.S. Green Technology

Beautifying and sprucing up your kitchen can be an endeavor that’s costly and wasteful. However, you can always upcycle and repurpose to spruce up your kitchen without generating more waste than necessary. Here are some ideas of how you can spruce up your kitchen in a meaningful and sustainable way. Green Technology.

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Using metal waste as a catalyst for making green hydrogen

Envirotec Magazine

A group from the University of Nottingham say they have found a way to transform metal waste into a highly efficient catalyst to make hydrogen from water, a discovery that could make hydrogen production more sustainable. To our astonishment, we discovered that the surfaces had grooves and ridges that were only tens of nanometres wide.

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Latest Adidas shoe uses upcycled materials to avoid waste

AGreenLiving

The Nothing Left Behind Free Hiker Gore-Tex shoe is an ankle-supporting athletic shoe in sophisticated colors for the sustainably-minded hiker. It’s the latest in a growing movement for sustainable footwear. They are part of the brand’s push for a more sustainable future and an end to plastic waste.

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Latest and Greatest Recycling Technologies

GreenTech Gazette

There are several new and emerging technologies for recycling that are being developed and implemented around the world. Here are a few examples: Chemical recycling: Chemical recycling is a new technology that breaks down plastic waste into its basic building blocks, which can then be used to make new plastic products.

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The UK wastes £19bn of food each year. As food shortages loom, we need circular solutions, says insect startup

AFN Sustainable Protein

And as millions of Brits are skipping meals days at a time, according to a survey by the UK Food Foundation earlier this year, the UK is wasting $23 billion (£19 billion) worth of food each year, enough to feed a quarter of the world’s population. “In the UK, we waste a third of all food produced. Overly linear food chains.

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Plastic Pollution’s Impact on Marine Life and Our Role in Conservation

The Environmental Blog

Millions of tons of plastic waste enter the marine environment every year, wreaking havoc on marine ecosystems and the creatures that call them home. Improper waste management allows plastic waste to leak from landfills and enter waterways. Our oceans, teeming with life, are under siege by a silent threat – plastic pollution.

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Altilium partners with Nissan on EV battery recycling project

Charged

A further sign of Nissan’s commitment to electrification is a new joint project with Altilium , a UK-based clean technology group, which is aimed at improving the sustainability of UK-made EV batteries by recycling used batteries and reducing reliance on imported raw materials. Sources: Altilium , Sunderland Echo

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