Sustainability

Sustainability

Hand-picked, positive news on what's good for the planet and ourselves

Valuable extractions

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Coffee grounds have much to offer. So too waste from fruit, vegetables or nuts, as shown by the female founder of an American startup....
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Mature gains

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CO2 can be stored in construction waste. Now, a female-founded Bristol startup is lowering emissions by transforming biological waste from industry and agriculture into...
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Liberating accumulation

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Pharmaceutical residues can be removed from effluent using pine bark. Now, a Singapore-based research team is looking to pomegranate peel to remove 4-nitrophenol from...
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Shore thing

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Foliage can be used to make sustainable paper and packaging material. Similarly, a Swedish startup is using seagrass that has been washed ashore to...
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Compensatory catch

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Rapidly spreading algae makes construction materials more sustainable. High numbers of shore crabs likewise disrupt the maritime ecosystem. Which is why a Danish startup...
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Reinvented removal

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Microplastics can be filtered during washing, while schoolchildren have already invented ivy-based detergents. Now, a startup in Taiwan has reinterpreted and patented an existing...
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Grounds to reconsider

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Mushrooms are suitable for sound insulation. Spent coffee grounds, as a Chinese university research team just discovered, could be used to deliver sustainable thermal...
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Domestic dissolution

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We have octopuses to thank for sustainable suncream. Environmentally-friendly containers for the cosmetics industry, in turn, are the brainchild of a female founder’s startup...
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Sticky suppression

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No one needs kidney stones. Nevertheless, a mineral present in animals’ urinary calculus is helping to make construction materials from sawdust fire resistant. A...
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Neutral safety

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Contorting molecules can store energy for as long as necessary. Meanwhile, a Hong Kong research team has turned to tofu in its drive to...
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