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Waste No Tyre, Burn No Tyre, with Tycycler

Written by Annalisa Dorigo,

Piles of tyres, fires blazing, thick smoke rising, are a far too common and disturbing sight in rubbish dumps in developing countries. Poor waste management infrastructure is partly to blame for the swindling of valuable resources, and the poisoning of air, water and earth around these dumps, through such a practice. But now, a low-tech solution can help stop all that: the Tycycler. Read on

Biodiversity

Recycling LEGO Style: ByFusion Presses Ocean Waste Into Plastic Building Blocks

Written by Marisa Pettit,

We all know that there's a problem. And the solution, unfortunately, isn't going to be all that simple. But now there is hope! The huge amounts of plastic waste floating in the world's oceans is one of the most pressing evironmental challenges of this century. But now there's a new technology which takes that waste and turns it into something new, in an eco-friendly, low-emission and non-toxic way. Read on

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Green New Deal

Paying with Plastic

Written by Anna Rees,

Vancouver-based social business The Plastic Bank trades reusable old plastic for credits, opening up new value-driven streams for people in impoverished communities and simultaneously spreading the word about ridding our oceans and waterways of plastic garbage. Read on

Green Living

Shop for a Cause: Better Buying, Just Around the Corner

Written by The Alternative,

Goodwill and charity come with expiry dates. And NGOs recognize this more than anybody else in their quest to be self-sustainable. Non-profits increasingly have started to think about depending lesser and lesser on the traditional donation model, through offering products and services that can bring in some revenue. Read on