Earth Day: 5 killers of the planet and the solutions to stop them
Let's take a look at the 5 biggest killers on our planet and what we can do to stop them.
Let's take a look at the 5 biggest killers on our planet and what we can do to stop them.
Self-healing plastic can be used in smartphones, cars and many other products, significantly reducing waste and pollution.
The resolution just approved lays the foundations for the most important law in history against plastic pollution.
The electric car as a panacea for all ills? This is not the case, and more is needed to solve the problems of our planet. Here's what.
After much wandering, airless tires are finally appearing on the market. 2024 will be the year of their introduction: motorists will be grateful. Even a bit of the environment, but in a low voice.
Invisible Bag does everything you need: The bag carries 3-4kg, then once at home it dissolves in water at 80 °. And the MUTE microplastics.
A new biodegradable plastic dissolves in the environment without leaving microplastics in just a week.
A team from the University of Hong Kong has found, thanks to a bacterium, a method that could give a decisive turning point to the phenomenon of microplastics.
Micro plastics from the sea pollute the soil. The equivalent of hundreds of millions of plastic bottles fall from the sky every year.
The strategies for the fight against aquatic waste are refined: autonomous boats arrive that work in tandem with drones and machine learning. Will they be enough?
A useful gadget if you want to change a small habit and reduce detergents and microplastics in the seas. Gentlemen, a full body towel… Without a towel.
As in a Dickens story, "the ghost of past pesticides" continues to plague the fields, even those of organic farming.
I peeked in advance at Bill Gates' book, which in a week will tell his recipe for avoiding global disaster. Here's what I found there.
Ecologic Brands is finally making inroads with an intuition it had almost 10 years ago. Flat cardboard bottles to be assembled, like IKEA furniture, can significantly cut the amount of plastic in the packaging market
A fleet of interceptors, special catamarans that sift plastic from rivers: this is how The Ocean Cleanup fights pollution with the help of AI
Notpla develops a substance derived from algae that replaces plastic very well
An Italian startup, Serendipity combines ecommerce and the dissemination of environmental culture: only plastic free household products on sale
Is infinite technological development possible in a world of finite resources? With these technologies (and their conscious use) probably yes.
NEC has initiated global sales of NeCycle, a bioplastic made up of cellulose and other safe ingredients, and will decompose in just 4 years.
An algorithm reassembles a frog's cells and tissues into new living organisms designed to perform specific functions. The era of xenobots, living machines, has begun.
The formula uses water as a catalyst that forms a filler in cracks, regenerating the rubber floor every time it rains.