The fashion industry has an overconsumption problem, producing endless textile waste that can’t always be recycled. Researchers have developed a new method for recycling blended textiles that could increase the amount of clothes that find a second life.
Jessica Droujko loves rivers. In order to better protect them, she founded the start-up Riverkin, which uses a special sensor to measure the health of bodies of water.
The journey to a festival site is the biggest contributor to a festival’s CO2 emissions. Crowd Impact surveys attendees on how they arrived, giving festivals data they can use to incentivise more sustainable transport choices.
The climate in Hamburg? Comparable to today's Castelraimondo, Italy: Mediterranean forests and undergrowth. And Freiburg? Like Istria, Croatia. An interactive map shows the climate in every location worldwide over the next 60 years.
OneClimate is an app that prompts users to take climate action via daily habits, tips and streaks, motivating individuals who will then inspire their wider communities to action.
Less than one percent of rare earth metals are recovered from electronic waste recycling in Switzerland. The start-up "REEcover" has developed a process that makes the recovery of raw materials easier, more economical and more sustainable.
Net zero will only be achieved if we capture the excess carbon in the atmosphere. Thanks to new research, capturing carbon with light is now a viable, cost-effective method of carbon capture.
Are we really breathing clean air when we sit in our garden or local park? The portable measuring device AirBeam can answer this question—and thanks to its open-source data—also protects other people from the impact of air pollution.
Rebo's high-tech reusable water bottle collects plastic waste from the beach every time you drink. But will growing sales of reusable water bottles save our oceans, or are they a sign of ever-more consumerism?
