Every year, around one million tonnes of cigarette butts are thrown wilfully into gutters, streets, roads and parks - and described as producing the worst form of plastic pollution ever. But in one town, smart Swedish crows are helping to clean butts up
Turning Pineapples into T-Shirts: An Agri-Waste Solution
Nutty Ideas: Organic Sanitisers from Cashew Waste
Sweat Power
Wearable devices are all the rage. But the fly in the technological ointment is battery life. Limited by size, rechargeables run out too fast, button batteries are not sustainable and newer tech brings heat and potential burn dangers. But scientists are working on another wearable power source – sweat.
WorkingMum: Empowering Periods
Sugar-based Disposables: Cups to Go
Keeping Clean: Washing Without Wasting
Fantastic Plastic: Eco Friendly Credit Cards
As you read this, over 30,000 tonnes of plastic a week is making its way to a landfill near you - and you will be responsible. Why? Because you renewed, or got a new credit card. Each year, some six billion credit cards are produced which means some 2 million tonnes of polymer plastic hits the trash pile every year. But help might be in sight: the big issuers are looking to go green.
Compost Cotton: Worms Make the Difference
The cotton industry has seen a lot of bad press; depleting water supplies, poisoning water tables with pesticide – and producing tons and tons of cotton-bud leftovers that blight the landscape around processing plants. In rural NSW, Australia, one man has woven a profitable business out of cotton waste, using worms.
