Tagged: Circular Economy

Twitter adds ‘Arabic (feminine)’ language option, scientists convert used plastic bottles into vanillin

French cities adopt gendered budgets, airships for short trips could cut emissions by 90%

Ethiopia to plant 6 billion trees by 2022, Lego unveils first LGBTQ set, circular jelly clothing

Pfizer’s Covid pill, a temporary handbag, Scottish uni turns old wind turbine blades into new ones

World’s most effective malaria vaccine, commercial scale production of cannabinoids

Peru to establish reserve for ‘uncontacted peoples’, startup turns banana waste into hair extensions

Circular economies can ‘cut emissions by 39%’, vision-improving smart glasses, world’s first home hydrogen battery

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Scientists are doing their best to create a circular, trash-free world.

Quantum sensors will allow cars to see through fog, NZ offers free Covid-19 vaccines to neighboring nations

Carbon-negative diamonds, bookshop.org helps indies take on Amazon, in-store clothing recycling

Student Creates Book on How Illnesses Present on Non-White Skin, Fish-Friendly Hydropower Plant

Second-year medical student Malone Mukwende has created a handbook on how skin diseases present differently on black and brown skin; scientists have developed a new power plant designed to reduce the impact of hydropower on aquatic life; and Levi’s is making jeans out of old jeans.

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Spain’s Green Revolution, Pandora to Use Only Recycled Silver and Gold, Beating Plastic Pollution in Southeast Asia

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Adidas’s Zero-Waste Sneaker, Creating Electricity from Snowfall, World’s Biggest Sun-Tracking Solar Farm

Adidas’s new ‘Futurecraft.Loop’ sneaker is made out of thermoplastic polyurethane and is completely recyclable; a new device generates electricity by capturing the charge produced when snow contacts a silicone surface; and Dutch engineers have built the world’s biggest archipelago of sun-tracking solar panel islands.