Recycling e-waste still presents us with major challenges, partly because the individual components are difficult to separate from one another. However, researchers are developing a new method - with the help of bacteria.
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Consumers are rarely given information about where their clothes come from and how they were made. In Germany, a new platform aims to bring more transparency into textile supply chains.
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The open source community plays an important role in developing openly accessible and free digital infrastructure. A new study explores where the challenges lie.
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Smarter Sorting’s AI-powered platform wants to help drastically cut retail waste, diverting valuable products from landfill and back into recycling and reuse.
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The Plantix app uses machine learning to detect crop pests and diseases and provides tips on how to treat them - helping ensure greater food security and secure the livelihoods of small farmers.
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From farm to plate, unnecessary waste is a huge problem throughout the food supply chain. London-based company Winnow has come up with an AI-integrated waste disposal system to help restaurants dramatically reduce what gets thrown away.
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Petroleum-free, with fewer emissions and cheap to produce: the Danish company Cellugy has developed a bioplastic that is 100 percent biodegradable and could one day be seen on our supermarket shelves.
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For many, a cup of coffee is part of their morning ritual - as is throwing the used coffee grounds into the bin. Why not use it for something else instead, like growing your own mushroom farm or making a fragrant fuel?
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Every year, Italy's citrus fruit industry produces 700,000 tons of waste. Two ecopreneurs have tapped into the potential of that organic waste - and are turning it into high-quality fabric.
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Fairphone, a social enterprise bringing sustainable materials and ethical production into the consumer electronics market, is back with a new device for Europe’s ethically-minded smartphone buyers.
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EcoAction is an NGO working to support marginalized women in Kampala - and at the same time highlighting one major issue that many people would rather ignore. RESET talked to their founder.
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Bicycles are one of the most sustainable means of transport around. One ambitious cyclist in Uganda is producing bicycles with an even lower CO2 footprint than the average. We visited him in his workshop in Kampala.
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The Swedish company EcoRub is turning old tyres into a new, recyclable rubber-based material that can be used in a wide range of different industries.
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Sustainable banking, green electricity, eco travel... but what about your mobile phone provider? We talked to Alma Spribille from WEtell about their plans to provide Germany's mobile phone market with a sustainable and ethical alternative.
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Without access to electricity, farming can be a struggle. The Dutch ecopreneurs behind SOLHO have developed an innovative system for greenhouses that produce their own energy.
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The financial world isn't exactly renowned for its social conscience and environmental sustainability. For those who don't want their money to be in a bank that dabbles in food speculation and invests in the arms industry, there haven't been many options out there. But now there's a new player on the field.
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Crowdfarming is an online platform that promotes direct contact between farmers and food lovers. Log on to adopt your own personal tree, beehive, vine, plant, or even sheep and receive their produce when harvest comes around.
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The 24th World Climate Change conference will be held next month in Poland. On the agenda: how exactly to turn the Paris Agreement into a set of concrete guidelines that can limit global warming to 2 - or even better - 1.5°C.
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Blockchain is still a relatively young technology, and while it still has a few challenges to overcome, there are already several real world examples of its potential for positive change.
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What is it exactly that blockchain can do? And why it so incredibly hyped? RESET takes a closer look at the technology and where its strengths (and weaknesses) lie.
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