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Inspiring People

Kiteloops upcycles used kites into designer clothing

Venezuelan startup Kiteloops fuses art, design and fashion with a passion for the sea, wind and adventure, by making unique handmade…

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Sustainable Planet

Fixing#Fashion: making repair, care and upgrade the new fashion

To counter the unsustainable practise of Fast Fashion, a new project called Fixing#Fashion is teaching people how to fix, adapt, repair…

7 mins
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Good Stuff

Filipino creates a rich urban farm by upcycling old tyres and over 1,000 plastic bottles

Using discarded items such as tyres and bottles, a businessman in the Philippines decided to turn his vacant lot into a…

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Inspiring People

At this Welsh shop you can buy a pint of milk the old fashioned way – but there’s a catch

A shop on Anglesey is taking customers on a trip down memory lane with a scheme where you can buy a…

4 mins
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Sustainable Planet

Philippine Supermarkets Ditch Plastic For Leaves, Following Thailand & Vietnam With Organic Wrapping

Southeast Asian supermarkets large and small are embracing this eco-friendly alternative to plastic when wrapping fresh produce.

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Sustainable Planet

ADIDAS SET TO PRODUCE 11 MILLION MORE SHOES USING RECYCLED PLASTIC WASTE IN 2019

From one million pairs of shoes made from recycled plastic in 2017, to five million pairs in 2018, adidas aim to…

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Sustainable Planet

This Thailand supermarket uses banana leaves to avoid excessive plastic packaging

Rimping supermarket in Chiang Mai came up with an ingenious way to reduce plastic packaging by wrapping their fresh produce in…

3 mins
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Better Society

Lessons in putting litter where it belongs

When these guys saw litter louts treating the environment like a trash can, they knew exactly what to do — they…

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Sustainable Planet

Elvis & Kresse is rescuing precious materials from landfill, one bag at a time

From fire hoses and leather scraps to auction banners, used tea sacks and waste parachute silks: name a disregarded material and…

3 mins
126

Sustainable Planet

How olive pits could help replace plastic

Turkish scientist makes bioplastic out of discarded olive pits thanks to her father’s unusual eating habits.

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Kiteloops upcycles used kites into designer clothing

Fixing#Fashion: making repair, care and upgrade the new fashion

Filipino creates a rich urban farm by upcycling old tyres and over 1,000 plastic bottles

At this Welsh shop you can buy a pint of milk the old fashioned way – but there’s a catch

Philippine Supermarkets Ditch Plastic For Leaves, Following Thailand & Vietnam With Organic Wrapping

ADIDAS SET TO PRODUCE 11 MILLION MORE SHOES USING RECYCLED PLASTIC WASTE IN 2019

This Thailand supermarket uses banana leaves to avoid excessive plastic packaging

Lessons in putting litter where it belongs

Elvis & Kresse is rescuing precious materials from landfill, one bag at a time

How olive pits could help replace plastic

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