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New Technology Creates Solar-Powered Landfills
Landfills are a constant reminder of the waste we produce, but a new innovation could throw out the notion of a “dump” by turning...
GE Teams Up With EPA to Keep Appliances Out of Landfills
It's bad enough to fill up landfills with recyclable food packaging, but it's even worse when people start piling on the remains of hulking...
Trash To Treasure: Toilets in Landfills Become Artful Tiles
You wouldn't expect a landfill to be a place where you could turn something (with a high yuck factor) into a thing of beauty....
Clean Power Projects Turn Landfills Into Electricity Makers
Landfills, with the tendency to belch noxious greenhouse gases, have long gotten a bad rap from environmentalists. But now several clean-power technology companies are...
Bicycle Recyclers Empower NYC Youth, Lighten Landfills
Recycle-a-Bike was founded in 1999 with a straightforward mandate: Repair abused, remaindered, broken, or worn bikes and funnel them back to consumers. But...
Silicon Valley to Invest Heavily in Emerging Green Technology that Cleans Air, Water and Landfills
Venture Capitalists are poised to invest hundreds of millions in the emerging "green technologies" and believe they could become as lucrative as anything that...
Insect Farm Hatches Plan for Greener Animal Feed for Chickens and Pigs
There's been a lot of talk in the media over the last few years about insect protein, whether used in fake beef, protein bars,...
Coffee Grounds Show Potential to Clean Up Common Water Contamination from Agriculture
Coffee grounds have been tested in a laboratory setting for their potential use as a cleanup agent of common agricultural runoff, suggesting that along...
UK Restaurant is Letting People Pay-as-They-Can While Rescuing Tons of Food
A restaurant in England has been able to employ 22 full and part-time staff serving food diverted from landfills to people on a "pay-as-you-can"...
Microsoft Campus Set to Use Geothermal Energy to Heat/Cool Millions of Sq Ft. of Office Space
It's been four years now, but Microsoft's Redmond campus modernization is almost finished. The massive 72-acre rebuild includes dozens of hopefully planet-saving designs and...
Shape-Shifting Fiber Produces Fabrics That Shrink or Expand in Real-Time and Fit into Existing Manufacturing
Imagine if the same forces that shrink your wool sweater when you forget what water temp to wash it at could be used at...
Simple Scanner the Size of a Coffee Grinder Will Tell You Exactly How Long Fruit and Veggies Will Last
A wise balding man once said, "fruit's a gamble," but what if producers and retailers had a way of knowing the odds before the...
Fishing Nets and Carpets Can Be Recycled Molecularly Thanks to Genius Chemist and Brand New Catalyst
A team of chemists has developed a low-cost, non-toxic catalyst that can easily deconstruct the complex plastic polymers of fishing nets, promising that a...
Teen Creates LEGO Charity to Collect and Wash Old Bricks to Give Away New Sets–For 3,000 Kids So Far
Charlie Jeffers has been playing with LEGO since he was 4 or 5 and credits one of the most famous of all toys for...
470,000 Glass Bottles Turned into Coating for Slashing Heat – Just Won a 2023 James Dyson Award
In Hong Kong SAR, air-conditioning to drive away the muggy sub-tropical heat accounts for almost a third (31%) of total electricity consumption.
In this megalopolis...
Your Halloween Horoscope (With Costume Suggestions!) From Rob Brezsny: A ‘Free Will Astrology’
Our partner Rob Brezsny, who has a new book out, Astrology Is Real: Revelations from My Life as an Oracle, provides his weekly wisdom to...
California Passes Right-to-Repair Act Guaranteeing Seven Years of Parts for Your Phone
GNN has reported often on improvements in consumer's right to repair products, from phones to cars, where for decades it's become harder and harder...
Concrete Made 30% Stronger by Adding Waste Coffee Grounds–Cutting Emissions and Mining in the Process
Engineers in Australia have found a way of making stronger concrete by utilizing coffee grounds, giving the roast a “double shot” at life and...
Old Wind Turbines are Repurposed into Footbridges Capable of Supporting 30 Tons
Wind turbine blades set to be landfilled or incinerated, are being turned into footbridges that can hold the weight of a 30-tonne digger.
Currently, there...
Company Devises Ingenious Method of Repurposing Old Wind Turbines: ‘The perfect time’
With the first generation of wind turbines well into a period of decommissioning, questions about what to do with the massive fiberglass blades is...