18 Apr Meet the ‘fix-perts’, an army of experts determined to get Britain on the mend
The Repair Café names the seven easiest things you can fix yourself (and that includes laptops), saving you a small fortune and benefiting the environment....
Recycling
11 Apr Sweden opens world’s first mall for repaired and recycled goods
A new generation of recycling has now gone from local drop-off centres to a shopping mall that sells only repaired or upcycled products....
10 Apr Watch: Here’s how this shoe will decompose like food in your trash
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in Ocean conservation, plastic waste, Recycling, Sustainability, Sustainable business, Sustainable fashion, Watch
Adidas’s upcoming biodegradable shoe is more environmentally sustainable--without losing any of its high performance. [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBaXnQRiGXI[/embed]...
06 Apr The UK company turning coffee waste into furniture
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in Circular economy, ethical living, Recycling, Sustainability, Sustainable business, Waste
Re-Worked makes material from waste coffee grounds collected from offices around the UK to make furniture for the same offices....
03 Apr Reusable incentives could slash disposable coffee cup waste
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in Circular economy, Environment, Packaging, plastic waste, Pollution, Read, Recycling, Waste
Free reusables, 25p charge on disposables and green slogans in cafes could cut some of 2.5bn cups thrown away each year, finds study....
25 Mar Meet Go Java, the social enterprise recycling your coffee pods
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in Circular economy, plastic waste, Recycling, Sustainability, Sustainable business
We knew that the technology was available to recycle coffee pods, but there were no good solutions in the market for consumers at home or at the office....
24 Mar Plastic roads: India’s radical plan to bury its garbage beneath the streets
In India, roads made from shredded plastic are proving a popular solution to tackling waste and extreme weather....
23 Mar IKEA plans to ditch toxic polystyrene for biodegradable mushroom packaging
IKEA is planning to switch up their packaging in an effort to slash waste and increase recycling....
22 Mar Recycling robots: AI could reverse the UK’s decline
Robotic waste sorting is gaining ground as an idea, but experts say the economics don’t yet stack up for household waste...
21 Mar This retired Russian woman decorated her house with recycled bottle caps
Not all grandmas are only into knitting and feeding stray cats. Russian pensioner, Olga Kostina, is into creative, colourful recycling....