This Greek Island Replaced its Landfill with Recycling Plant That Now Reduces Waste by 85%
Set up by Polygreen, the Just Go Zero initiative is hoping to steer other Greek islands towards similar programs.
Set up by Polygreen, the Just Go Zero initiative is hoping to steer other Greek islands towards similar programs.
It's already deployed in 80 recycling facilities and is 99% accurate, becoming more accurate every year the waste is being sorted
Young Dutch scientist Boyan Slat is responsible for cleaning up the worlds oceans-and he is now cleaning up rivers with his new invention: The Interceptor
Since Molly the Labrador has always had an affinity for collecting trash, her owner decided to put her hobby to good use by cleaning up their local beach.
Sanitation workers Saul Scruggs and Keon Richardson were shocked to find a thank-you party waiting for them in Miami Beach neighborhood.
The Amazon is home to more species than almost anywhere else on earth. One fungus, carried home recently by a group from Yale University, appears to be quite happy eating plastic in airless landfills.
All the live-long day, Mr. Trash Wheel and his new friends use their waterwheels and conveyor belts to gobble Maryland's river trash.
The dashing Mr. Trash Wheel and Professor Trash Wheel have picked up over 1 million pounds of trash from the Jones Falls River since 2014.
Ava couldn't bear to think about how her favorite restaurant chain was contributing to pollution – so she wrote them a moving letter asking them to make a change.
Imagine a machine that can turn almost anything into oil. Imagine that it uses natural processes like heat and pressure, and produces no pollution. Imagine recycling waste from landfills, refuse from poultry factories, sludge from city sewage, or even infectious medical waste. We now know it can be done.
High School seniors Miranda Wang and Jeanny Yao want to continue pursuing a solution for how to make plastic decompose using natural bacteria already evolving on the planet. The two were finalists for Canada's top student biotechnology award, the 2012 Sanofi BioGENEius Challenge, where their project was judged to have the greatest commercial potential of any project entry, valued at $10 million. Now they are bringing their ideas to the TED stage.
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