With Assist From Sustainable Plastics, EV Sets New Speed Record
This electric race car just broke an indoor speed record, with an assist from sustainable plastics.
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Goodyear Cooks Up “Stone Soup” Sustainable-Materials Car Tires
The potential to achieve 100% sustainable-materials car tires is in sight, with an assist from mass balance supply chain bookkeeping.
Ford Takes Giant Baby Step With One Tiny Recycled Plastic Car Part
Ford can’t solve the ocean plastic crisis with one tiny little recycled plastic clip, but it can help raise public pressure for solutions.
Art Project: Renault IKEA Höga Deserves To Live
Have you ever wandered through one of IKEA’s massive stores and thought about what it would be like to buy a car there? You wouldn’t daydream about just any car, either. You’d want an IKEA car to be like an IKEA home. Tiny, but packed with clever, Scandinavian simplicity and … [continued]
RAND 28′ Electric Powerboat Brings The Sexy
Cruising noiselessly across a calm lake used to be the lone purview of sailing boats, but the wind can be fickle and learning to sail can be annoying for those like me with short attention spans. That’s the beauty of powerboats, but the ugly side of those is the massive amounts of fuel they consume. “There has to be a better way,” I hear you say — and there is. Meet the RAND Leisure 28 electric powerboat.
Michigan Teen Turns Plastic Trash Into T-Shirts
Jackson Reigler is building a business based on making clothing using polyester yarn from recycled plastic bottles. He is proof that a circular economy model works.
Meet The Woman Behind Wazi Vision, The Recycled Plastic Glasses
Brenda Katwesigye is the founder and CEO of Wazi Vision Limited, a company incorporated in Uganda that builds eyewear and construction material from recycled plastic. Brenda is passionate about creating sustainable and affordable solutions for critical health care and housing challenges, so we talked to her about the challenges of providing eye care to children in Uganda and how she’s contributing to solving these issues.
Plastic Roads Anybody?
Asphalt roads may one day give way to plastic roads. PlasticRoad, a Netherlands company has released a well-engineered version of a road built with recycled plastic. Right now, it is only an idea, but the idea is intriguing. According to the company, “PlasticRoad features numerous advantages compared to conventional roads, … [continued]
