Can promoting sustainable design of products and materials so that they can be reused, remanufactured, or recycled and retained in the economy help to solve the global plastics problem? How is the plastics manufacturing industry responding to potential moratoriums?
How Installing Solar on Landfills Can Revitalize Communities
The other day, I saw a tweet from retired Lt. Gen. Russel Honore in which he asked our state’s office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness to force the U.S. Coast Guard to clean up the plastic trash along the Mississippi River. “Don’t Trash Louisiana,” he said in the tweet and shared pictures of the river filled with trash.
One of the most dangerous jobs in the US, which ranked in the top 5 occupations for fatal work injuries, is sanitation work.
Trash litter levels on the Arctic ocean floor are rising fast, with concentrations at one deep-sea station rising 20-fold in just a decade, according to new research from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research.
As the world population produces more and more trash, it is high time to examine the evolution of the waste management and recycling business and the use of robotics in managing this recoverable waste stream. The effective use of such smart technology is regarded as a major step forward in managing … [continued]
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]
An “internet of things” approach to trash collection from public spaces makes the process much more efficient.
It’s called “urban biomass,” and it’s ours (spsmw.org). Hard to imagine a subject that would find The Wall Street Journal and Grist in line with each other’s thinking, but burning wood for energy has achieved it. Neither outlet seems to view the topic positively. Both have cited the scientific work … [continued]
I never really thought about it, but consider how much energy could be saved if recycling, compost, and trash cans were only emptied when they were full. Well, the University of Washington may be leading us in that energy efficient direction. “Last year, the University of Washington realized it … [continued]
