SmartCan, the autonomous bin debuts in 2020
SmartCan goes to the collection point, gets the garbage lifted from the vehicle and once deposited on the ground it leaves for the house.
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Zero-waste miracles: France's poorest city turns green
“I think I don't do anything special. Zero-waste? I just recovered good practices that society has forgotten for 50 years."
Bill Gates: “It's time for wind and solar funding to go somewhere else.”
“Incentives go to more pressing things: I'm thinking of energy conservation through batteries, or offshore wind farms,” says Bill Gates.
Feel the peel, orange juice and 3D printed glasses from the skins
Feel the peel dispenses freshly squeezed orange juice using leftover peels as material to 3D print the recyclable glasses in which the juice is served.
Plastic roads for the cars of the future
Plastic roads are four times lighter in structure than asphalt, assemble like LEGO and turn waste into recyclable resources.
Pakistani research draws bioplastic from mango kernels
Dr Anjum Nawab, a Pakistani scientist and Assistant Professor at the University of Karachi, announced yesterday that he had generated a bioplastic using the mango pit. The bioplastic obtained is easily degradable and does not pose any threat to the environment, marine and plant ecosystems. In an interview with a private national TV, Nawab said “Pakistan is at the top in the world for mango production, which is why my research had a conservative approach. I wanted to exploit a subject… Read more
Cheer Project, eco-sustainable products from pine needles
Each phase of the process is natural and gives life to biodegradable, fireproof, waterproof and recyclable products. Pine needles: aesthetic and ecological triumph.
Solar energy in China now costs less than the electricity grid
The political efforts made, including cuts to new coal power plants and the closure of mines, are bearing the expected results: solar energy in China costs less and less.
Live since 2042: defending human dreams from AI and robotics
Now that they have freed us from many different tasks, the priority in 2042 is that AI and robotics do not free us from our need to be useful.
Plastic island of the Pacific, marine skyscrapers to clean it
Chinese designer Honglin Li wants to clean up this plastic Pacific island by building a skyscraper in between. Here's how it would work.
The parasitic house (in a good sense) to live on the roofs
The parasitic house exploits the existing connections, responds to the need for houses with minimal approaches, zero waste and saving the cultural heritage of the cities.
For Days, a canon for dressing (and reusing) for life
For Days, more than a company, is the paradigm of radical, sustainable and ethical change also in the world of clothing and fashion.
An artificial coral reef in Sidney harbor
The artificial reef took place in the seafront area of the famous Opera House, the characteristic Sydney theater known throughout the world. Not far from there is the Great Barrier Reef, which is increasingly at risk.
UK develops Americium engines for space missions lasting hundreds of years
The gigantic energy of americium and plutonium allows a range of otherwise unreachable space missions: the UK advances rapidly in this direction.
New cultural models for the West: Toyotism
Have you ever wondered why the Japanese have managed to achieve similar results? Where does the industrial success of this island country poor in natural resources come from?
Climate project: Carrefour awards 7 companies
Carrefour has started to look around among its suppliers (651) to identify the "greenest" companies that are ahead in adopting environmental sustainability policies. The company asked participants to present their projects, then evaluating them with the consultancy of Fedabo, a leading company in the sector, evaluating their innovative scope and producing a ranking: 7 virtuous companies, each for a reason. For Carrefour's sales and marketing director, Grégoire Kaufman, the process was natural: since 2011… Read more
5 trends in the future of packaging
The concept of 'packaging' has been the cross and delight of all industrial development: on the one hand it has guaranteed better, faster and more widespread distribution and preservation of food, on the other it has contributed to forming a generation (more than one for truth) “disposable” accustomed to not reusing anything and using things quickly and hastily. In any case, the virtue lies in the middle: we need packages and containers, we will need them more and more. Here you are … Read more
Nomix Toilet, the toilet becomes a biogas generator
A toilet capable of producing biogas from our… er… biological activities? It would be a pretty good innovation.
Today is World Toilet Day: the future is also to have more hygiene.
Dirty, smelly and not recommended for hygiene, but they do their job: these are our sewers. Although it may present serious structural problems (often all sorts of problems arise from their congestion, in conjunction with rains and overflows), our Network is an achievement of civilization from which not everyone in the world can benefit. Take developing countries: the absence of any system for disposing of our biological waste causes the death of hundreds of people every year... Read more
