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The solution to few of life’s problems can be found at the bottom of a bottle, except, maybe, the poor sound quality…
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For years, China has been the world’s plastic waste dump. Single use water bottles, yogurt cups, hummus containers, and…
The European Commission is proposing a ban on around 10 single-use plastic items that it says account for approximately…
It can be difficult to figure out what to do with your old electronics when you’re ready to move on from them, but here…
A couple of years ago, scientists discovered an enzyme in a waste recycling center in Japan that digests plastic.…
If you don’t have access to a proper recycling facility, a talented blacksmith who goes by shurap on YouTube has found…
Your childhood NES that hasn’t booted up in a decade. Your stash of old flip phones that you’ve kept in a shoebox in…
Building a robot that can replicate everything a human can do is both impossibly complicated and expensive. So,…
Do you deliberately avoid visiting friends who live in multi-story buildings without an elevator? No one would fault…
Reduce, re-use, and recycle are words to live by as we try to minimize humanity’s demand for our planet’s natural…
When the Olympic Games hit Tokyo in 2020, the Olympic organizing committee hopes the medals awarded to athletes will be…
You don’t need a million dollar Steinway piano to put on a captivating musical performance. You don’t even need a real…
We’ve been pouring carbon into our atmosphere for over 200 years, with potentially catastrophic consequences for the…
Time and time again we’ve cautioned you against buying coffee pod machines like the Keurig, but what if one is gifted…
Haven’t cleaned your desk in years? At this point you’ve probably accumulated enough crap to recycle it all into…
When you think of the daily abuse that airplane seats have to endure, it’s a minor miracle they aren’t torn to shreds…
When the Fed constantly replaces old, tattered dollar bills with new, crispy cash, millions of notes get pulled out of…
There’s about five pounds of salvageable copper inside your typical photocopier (mostly in the power supply and the…
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