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Spain’s government approves pioneering law against food waste

Spain becomes the third EU country to legislate against food waste, so as not to throw away almost 1.4 million tonnes…

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Sustainable Planet

Building bridges with recycled wind turbine blades could help solve a major waste challenge

Engineers have installed bridges in Poland and Ireland made from decommissioned wind turbine blades, sparing the durable, lightweight, weatherproof giants from…

7 mins
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Inspiring People

Turkish refuse workers create popular library from books they salvaged from the trash

A group of Turkish garbage collectors, tired of seeing discarded books taken to landfill, have created a library with over 6000…

4 mins
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Inspiring People

How the World’s Biggest Garbage Dump Transformed Into a Lush Green Oasis

The revolutionary solution for a noxious landfill site in Staten Island? Bury it, plant some grass and leave it for 20…

7 mins
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Sustainable Planet

China has found a innovative way to tackle food waste: cockroaches!

Waste-processing plants in China are using up to 1 billion cockroaches to process over 50 tons of daily kitchen waste.

3 mins
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Sustainable Planet

Glastonbury 2019: festival bans plastic bottles

The world famous music festival will no longer sell single-use disposable plastic drinks bottles in bid to cut waste.

4 mins
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Inspiring People

Clothing is Not Garbage — says New York City’s Wearable Collections

Wearable Collections is a NYC based company focused on keeping clothing, textiles and shoes out of landfills while generating funds for…

3 mins
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Sustainable Planet

Cool open-source recycling machines let you turn old plastic waste into useful stuff — at home!

Precious Plastic: the idea behind these do-it-yourself machines is that anyone can build and use them to make new and useful…

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Spain’s government approves pioneering law against food waste

Building bridges with recycled wind turbine blades could help solve a major waste challenge

Turkish refuse workers create popular library from books they salvaged from the trash

How the World’s Biggest Garbage Dump Transformed Into a Lush Green Oasis

China has found a innovative way to tackle food waste: cockroaches!

Glastonbury 2019: festival bans plastic bottles

Clothing is Not Garbage — says New York City’s Wearable Collections

Cool open-source recycling machines let you turn old plastic waste into useful stuff — at home!

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Spain’s government approves pioneering law against food waste

Building bridges with recycled wind turbine blades could help solve a major waste challenge

Turkish refuse workers create popular library from books they salvaged from the trash

How the World’s Biggest Garbage Dump Transformed Into a Lush Green Oasis

China has found a innovative way to tackle food waste: cockroaches!

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Glastonbury 2019: festival bans plastic bottles

Clothing is Not Garbage — says New York City’s Wearable Collections

Cool open-source recycling machines let you turn old plastic waste into useful stuff — at home!