Source: earth911.com Published: October 5, 2018 By Daniel Dern I try to work recycling into my daily routine, but sometimes, the answer to “what do I do with this?” is less than obvious and some sleuthing is required. Like today’s detectives, those of us pursuing...
Source: ecowatch.com Published: October 4, 2018 Boeing Airplanes / Twitter By Lorraine Chow Virgin Atlantic has successfully flown and landed a commercial flight using aviation fuel partly made of waste carbon gas from a steel mill. The Boeing 747 took off from...
Source: recyclinginternational.com Published: October 3, 2018 By Kirstin Linnenkoper Researchers at the University of Edinburgh are developing a new compound to extract gold from used electronics. Around 7% of the world’s gold is inside e-scrap, of which less...
Source: spectrum.ieee.org Published: November 23, 2016 By Andrew Silver Sanivation’s poop-based fuel briquettes finish cooling and drying on racks. Photo: Sanivation In August 2015—after a couple of years of testing—a company in Kenya began commercially...
Source: ecowatch.com Published: November 15, 2017 Plastic debris collected by NOAA staff and volunteers on the Midway Atoll in the Pacific ocean. Holly Richards / USFWS / Flickr David Leestma Plastic is moldable, durable, and its versatility means it’s everywhere...
Source: earth911.com Published: November 3, 2017 Brian Brassaw As a kid, I remember seeing striking pictures of massive jets, tiny turbo props and other aircraft seemingly abandoned in the arid desert. Across the southwestern United States, there are seven major...
Source: ecowatch.com Published: October 31, 2017 Flint, Michigan water distribution. U.S. Department of Agriculture / Flickr Lorraine Chow Flint, Michigan doesn’t just have a water problem—it has a water bottle problem. Ever since the 2014 lead...
Source: grist.org Published: October 26, 2017 Grist / Image Source / Getty Images By Eve Andrews The questions that land in the Ask Umbra inbox are, by turns, incredibly vague, hyper-specific, heartily baffling, and genuinely touching. (Send more of them!) But there...
Source: ecowatch.com Published: October 26, 2017 Food Tank By Eva Perroni A new documentary from chef and television personality Anthony Bourdain, WASTED! The Story of Food Waste explores both the problem of food waste in the U.S. and possible solutions from around...
