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Glenfiddich Distilleries Launch Fleet of Trucks That Runs on Whiskey Waste

Drinking and driving don't mix when the alcohol is inside the driver, but what if the leftover dregs from a whiskey distillery could replace...

Researchers Use Wastewater to Generate Electricity – While Cleaning It Up

Whether wastewater is full of “waste” is a matter of perspective. “Why is it waste?” asked Zhen He, a professor at Washington University in St....

60+ Major Companies Sign ‘Radical’ Deal to Dramatically Reduce Plastic Waste in Just 4 Years

Major affiliates supplying supermarkets in Australia and New Zealand have come together and pledged to tackle Oceania's plastic waste crisis. Of the more than 60...

The Quest for Rare Wood is Endangering Forests. Now We Can Just 3D-Print Replicas Made from Wood Waste Instead

While pangolin scales, shark fins, elephant ivory, and rhino horn are famed for their value on the black market, the most illegally trafficked of...

‘The Manta’ Sailing Vessel is Designed to Feed on Plastic Waste for Power – While Cleaning Oceans

A professional yacht racer in France, annoyed by the constant sightings of floating mats of plastic garbage in coastal waters, has designed an ocean-cleaning...

Joint Venture With Love’s Truck Stops Will Produce 80M Gallons of Renewable Biodiesel Made From 100% Waste

A giant agricultural company’s years of work on a renewable, sustainable diesel fuel is finally coming to fruition—and it’s made from 100% waste products. A...

How to Turn Plastic Waste From Your Recycle Bin Into Profit

This article, by Joshua M. Pearce of Michigan Technological University, has been republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. People will recycle...

The Ever-Growing Pile of Electronic Waste is Now On the Decline, Study Finds

A new study has found that the total mass of electronic waste generated by Americans has been declining since 2015. In an age when most of...

This Brilliant Low-Income Housing in Colombia is Made From Coffee Waste

In a country with both housing shortages and world-leading coffee production, a small construction company has, quite brilliantly, found a way to leverage one...

Kenyan Woman’s Startup Recycles Plastic Waste into Bricks That Are 5x Stronger Than Concrete

An absolutely brilliant young woman in Kenya has started a company manufacturing bricks from recycled plastic. Nzambi Matee says she was "tired of being on...

Former Prisoners Turn Waste Into Beautiful Furniture, Re-Building Their Lives At the Same Time

Recycling talent and material, Formr makes quirky furniture pieces from salvaged construction site garbage while using the woodworking talent of formerly incarcerated individuals. Operational for...

Mythical Creatures Made From Nature’s Waste Have Been Popping Up in Canadian Park

From baking banana bread to taking up cycling, many people have taken up new hobbies during the pandemic. One artist living on the west...

Google is Creating Tools to Tackle Food Waste and Hunger at its Moonshot Factory

A Google offshoot has created two new programs which make it easy for food producers, suppliers, and commercial kitchens to route unneeded food to...

Dutch Man Invents Coffin That Turns Bodies Into Mushrooms: ‘We are nutrients, not waste’

In the Netherlands, an 82-year old woman was recently laid to rest in a coffin made entirely of fast-composting mushroom fibres that will considerably...

Scientists Turn Plastic Waste Into Valuable Commodities, to Create a Bigger Market for Waste Materials

As much as plastic has been maligned in recent years, it was actually a remarkable invention for humanity, allowing us to craft unique materials...

These Sunglasses Are Made From the First Ever Batch of Plastic Waste Recovered by the Ocean Cleanup Project

Since Boyan Slat and The Ocean Cleanup recovered the first load of garbage from the GPGP, they have managed to turn the trash into treasure.

‘Smell-by’ Labels Help You Cut Kitchen Waste And Know When Your Food Has Actually Gone Bad

A new ‘Smell-by’ label has been invented to help people know whether their food has actually gone bad, or if it's still good to...

The Fashion Industry Has a Waste Problem: This Non-Profit With 2,000 Volunteers Is Helping Solve It

Fabric cuttings and textile leftovers are a difficult class of waste to recycle, but in a fashion industry first—a door-to-door New York City recycling...
ITER workers unveil lid in 2020

A Giant Fusion Reactor Hotter than the Sun to Provide Unlimited Clean Energy Without Waste Marks Milestone

The assembly phase of one of humanity's most-complex engineering projects—a giant nuclear fusion reactor called ITER—launched in France.

Washington Man Rescues 2.4 Million Pounds of Farmers’ Crops Going to Waste, Gets Them to Food Banks Across State

The Washington state nonprofit EastWest Food Rescue delivers truckloads of food that would be thrown out to food banks in western cities like Seattle.