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United Airlines Worker Resolves How to Turn Thousands of Expired Life Jackets into Backpacks and Bags
A partnership between United Airlines and a fashion company diverted 900 pounds of trash from landfills in the form of expired life jackets.
According to...
Good News in History, July 2
101 years ago today, Wisława Szymborska was born in Poland. This poet, essayist, translator, and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature penned...
Coldplay’s New Album Is Made of Plastic Collected from Rivers by The Ocean Cleanup
Coldplay has a new album announced: Moon Music, and in keeping with both the rise in conscious consumerism and the vinyl revival, there's a...
Your Weekly Horoscope – ‘Free Will Astrology’ From Rob Brezsny
Our partner Rob Brezsny, who has a new book out, Astrology Is Real: Revelations from My Life as an Oracle, provides his weekly wisdom to...
Nonprofit Diverts an Ocean Plastic Tide, Removing 2 Million Pounds of Trash From Waterways
The TerraCycle Global Foundation reached an impressive milestone last month, announcing that they've removed over 2 million pounds of waste from rivers, canals, and...
Grocery Worker Rescues Mom By Asking a Crying Toddler if She Wants to Scan Items (WATCH)
It doesn't matter how expert you are and calming your child, sometimes they are simply inconsolable; and parallel to that fact is another that...
Littering Scoundrel Overwhelming Neighborhood With Half-eaten Chocolate Turns Out to be a Squirrel
The identity of serial litterers who spent months blighting a housing estate with half-eaten chocolates was discovered to be greedy squirrels.
Locals living in Ellesmere...
Fishing Nets and Carpets Can Be Recycled Molecularly Thanks to Genius Chemist and Brand New Catalyst
A team of chemists has developed a low-cost, non-toxic catalyst that can easily deconstruct the complex plastic polymers of fishing nets, promising that a...
Giant Halloween Sculptures in Architect’s Front Yard Get Better Every Year, From King Kong to an Egyptian Tomb—LOOK
A Massachusetts architect has been building epic Halloween installations every year in his front yard—becoming a local legend for his scary sculptures.
Tom Saltsman has...
Massachusetts Innovators Aim to Turn Ocean Plastic into Fuel–Right Onboard the Ship
Chemical engineers are pioneering a process to equip diesel ships with the onboard capacity to turn collected plastic garbage into fuel.
The result has been...
Robot Named Sorty McSortface Uses Mechanical Claws and AI to Sort Tons of Recyclables in Minutes
Conversations about artificial intelligence took off in the media after the debut of ChatGPT this year, but AI had already been coiling its industry-changing...
Analysis Shows We’ve Been Overestimating the Amount of Plastic in Oceans by 30x
Scientists in the Netherlands have shown quite convincingly that the issue of plastic pollution in our oceans is far smaller than anyone believed.
Their research...
New August Horoscope From Rob Brezsny: A ‘Free Will Astrology’
Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly...
Scientists Discover Pristine Deep-Sea Coral Reefs in Galápagos Marine Reserve ‘Teeming With Life’
Scientists have discovered extensive, ancient deep-sea coral reefs within the Galápagos Marine Reserve in Ecuador—the first of their kind ever to be documented inside...
Mom Recycles a Ton of Trash With Backyard Public Recycling Center That Collects Things the City Doesn’t
An English woman has found her calling and recycled more than 2,000 pounds of trash after setting up a drop-off point in her garden...
Company Unveils Designer Hypercar that Runs on Fuel Made from Plastic
An Italian motor company has unveiled a supercar that will run on garbage.
Italian supercars tend towards the polluting side of the spectrum of manufacturing,...
Officials Want to Turn Rikers Island Prison Into a Green Energy Hub
A coalition of groups are envisioning the former jails on Rikers Island as the hub for green energy generation, enough to power 45,000 homes.
They...
Breakthrough: Polyethylene Bags and Jugs Can Finally be Upcycled to Solve Several Problems at Once
Notorious plastic bags and containers can finally be upcycled, thanks to a new technique for recycling polyethylene bags and food packaging into valuable starter...
Mice Families Move into Dream Village Built By Gardener–And Are Hand Fed Flowers Every Day – LOOK
Two families of mice live in their own purpose-built homes at the end of a man's garden— they're hand-fed flowers each day and even...
This Company is Mass-Producing T-Shirts From Mass-Produced T-Shirts—Closing a Wasteful Fashion Loop
A company is seeking to target the worst aspects of wasteful fast fashion and demonstrate and economically-profitable circular economy with that most standard of...