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"This Home Siding Made from Rice Husks Saves Thousands of Trees and Diverts Crop Waste from Landfills"
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This Home Siding Made from Rice Husks Saves Thousands of Trees, Diverts Ag Waste from Landfills
One pallet of ACRE material saves a whole acre of tropical rainforest hardwoods, and in 2022 alone, 44,000 of those pallets were sold.

⚗️ New device converts plastic waste into fuel using catalyst-free pyrolysis
#plastics…

New device converts plastic waste into fuel using catalyst-free pyrolysis
As tons of plastic waste continue to build up in landfills every day, Yale researchers have developed a way to convert this waste into fuels and other valuable products efficiently and cheaply. The results are published in Nature Chemical Engineering.

We have to talk about burning trash🗑️🔥
Waste incinerators / waste-to-energy plants that generate electricity and heat are an enormous and often underestimated source of CO2 🏭💨🌎. For example, in Germany, a country where waste-to-energy plants are common, their emissions are higher than those of cement.
Waste incinerator operators will often claim that half of their emissions don't count 🌿 or even that they already have net-negative emissions 🌎. I disagree with both 🧵

Just Stop Burning Trash
Waste-to-energy plants are a massive source of carbon dioxide emissions. Yet, it is not obvious what the best solution for high-emitting incinerators would be. Should incinerators be equiped with carbon capture? How much can recycling rates be improved, and what role should chemical recycling play? And could landfills be a carbon storage solution?

While travelling through Jeju, SouthKorea a friend of mine and the blog @… met the owners of Burden, a company making reusable tote bags which can be easily packed inside a dog plush or round case. Here is the review he wrote up for us.

Review: BURDEN – Fashionably Reducing Single-Use Plastics
💡This review was written by a friend of mine, with a final proofreading and layout done by myself. It is a well-known fact that plastics are useful, yet they can have a detrimental impact on the environment. Plastic waste has not only been piling up drastically in landfills, but can

#buyitforlife https://feddit.org/post/16331311
This is a great example of proprietary abandonware being saved from landfills and remaining useful tech through open-source software.
Why aren't th…

#Mülldeponien in #Colorado stoßen so viel #Methan aus wie vergleichbar eine Million #Verbrennerautos

Colorado landfills generate as much dirty air as driving 1 million cars for a year
Proposed rules would force landfill operators to measure methane emissions, fix leaks and, in some cases, install gas-collection systems

"From landfill to luxury: how a designer uses scraps from Hermès and Chanel to make leather goods"
#Textiles #Fashion