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Ever since the Union Budget laid out the path for electric vehicular transportation, there has been debate on how this will affect the automobile industry and its associated peripheral markets. However, there has been little debate on the importance of (lithi…

For Ryan McGill, its legacy has been enormous. Earlier this year, the Glaswegian, London-based designer launched Two Degrees Creative, a collaborative platform for climate change solutions. Inspired by Anderson, Recycle(d) is an ongoing project set up by Two…

Why is plastic waste such a problem for Indonesia? In the past 30 years, Indonesia  has become overwhelmed by plastic waste. Sadly, we havent found a solution to deal with this waste across our many islands.  The topography of Indonesia makes it more challen…

Air travel generates millions of tons of waste every year. Some airlines are trying to change that. On a recent 15-hour journey from Newark to Hong Kong, I was faced with a parade of single-use disposables. There was the plastic-wrapped blanket and plastic-ba…

National Geographic offers a good series of more than one hundred YouTube videos designed to provide viewers with concise explanations of the big concepts of a variety of topics in science. The series includes videos about volcanoes, plastics creation and rec…

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Compared to the rest of the world, the waste and recycling stats in the U.S. just cant compete. Although the U.S. is just 4 percent of the worlds total population, the country produces 12 percent of the total solid waste of 2.1 billion tons per year. When res…

A separate survey by YouGov on behalf of Keep Britain Tidy and Brita UK, also found that just half of businesses are offering recycling services in the workplace, while four in 10 are doing nothing to reduce plastic waste, a new survey has found. The study o…

Share to facebookShare to twitterShare to linkedin The next generation of social entrepreneurs   Getty For years, it seemed that people who wanted to do good in the world thought they needed to create a non-prof…

The world has a trash problem, and a new report out Tuesday reminds us just how much Americans contribute. Turns out that while we create the most waste in the world, were one of the worst countries at recycling it. The reportpublished by Verisk Maplecroft, …