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Episode 61: Turning Plastics into Sustainable Products & Lives
2020-06-01 09:00:00| Waste Age
In our latest episode of NothingWasted!, we chat with Ian Rosenberger, founder & CEO of First Mile and Day Owl. First Mile supports micro-economies in underdeveloped communities by collecting plastic bottles and turning them into
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Turning Waste into Energy in Connecticut
2020-05-27 09:00:00| Waste Age
The State of Connecticut has a strategy to reduce the amount of garbage it burns by converting food and other organic waste into energy and compost. With the cost of waste rising there is growing interest in anaerobic digestion, although to date
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Turning Plastic into Face Masks
2020-05-19 09:00:00| Waste Age
A group of scuba divers are using their social distancing time to help people and keep trash out of our oceans by making face masks from plastic water bottles recovered from the oceans, as CNN reported. These masks are made by the Professional Assoc
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Israel-Based UBQ Materials is Turning Garbage into Recyclable Plastic
2020-05-07 15:19:00| Waste Age
UBQ Materials, a company founded in 2012 by Rabbi Yehuda Pearl and Tato Bigio, has developed a chemical process that turns garbage into recyclable plastic. And the plastic resin industry in the U.S. is taking note. UBQ diverts unsorted s
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Report: Fossil Fuels For Power At Turning Point As Renewables Surged In 2019
2020-03-04 19:25:00| OGI
Declines suggest the end of the fossil fuel era could be on the horizon, said Tomas Kaberger, an energy professor at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, who provided the data to Reuters.