recycling
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Staggering Quantities of Valuable Metals Are Winding Up in the Garbage Bin
To build all of the solar panels, wind turbines, electric vehicle batteries, and other technologies necessary to fight climate change, we’re going to need a lot more metals. Mining those metals from the Earth creates damage and pollution that threaten ecosystems and communities. But there’s another potential source of the copper, nickel, aluminum, and rare-earth…
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Lego Says It Won’t Use Recycled Plastic for Bricks Because It Doesn’t Really Help the Planet
The company has opted to not move forward with recycled bricks made from polyethylene terephthalate, or PET.
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Pulverised Glass Is Becoming Much-Needed Sand Along Louisiana’s Coasts
Glass Half Full and Tulane University researchers are winners of the 2023 Gizmodo Science Fair for recycling glass bottles and using them to restore shoreline in Louisiana.
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Skip Garbage Day By Putting Your Trash Bins on a Train
Dragging our various trash and recycling bins to the curb in -10 degrees Fahrenheit weather this morning, I couldn’t help but wonder if there was a better way. It turns out there is, but it involves spending months engineering and re-engineering a miniature train that takes the trash to the curb for you.