Looking Closer For Nature
World Environment Day, first proclaimed in 1972 by the United Nations General Assembly, is a holiday to encourage awareness and active action for the global environment…
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Ocean Cleanup Group: from rivers to oceans
Ocean Cleanup is a non-profit foundation – established in the Netherlands in 2013 by Boyan Slat, just eighteen at the time – which aims at …
Plastic bank: the returnable vacuum that values waste and people
“We got it all wrong. All of us. The last thing we should be doing is clean up the ocean.” David Katz, 2017 As soon …
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A Knowledge Center for Plastics
Every year, more than 8 million tons of plastic waste ends up in the oceans, threatening the marine ecosystem. Snøhetta, an international architecture, art and …
Green Innovations we need on a Big Scale
Bill Gates, known as the principal founder of Microsoft Corporation, established the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the largest foundation in the world active in …
Plants in exchange for waste
In Kuwait, one of the richest countries in the world, 90% of waste ends up directly in landfills. Since the turn of the century, a …
The right to repair objects
England has announced the introduction of the “right to repair” law, which is expected to come in the summer 2021. In addition, the UK government …
Change is in your hand
What is FairPhone? A phone designed to last over time, in which each component can be easily repaired or replaced by the user, and which …
The role of education
The transition toward the circular economy is already happening. Thanks to the work of many organizations involved, included the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, this model has …
Are plastics all the same?
Classify and catalogue. During his trip aboard the expedition ship named Beagle that started in 1813, Charles Darwin collected a great amount of animal and …
