San Francisco has banned the sale of plastic bottles in city properties such as City Hall and public buildings. It is also running a campaign to ask its citizens to use clean and inexpensive tap water instead of contributing to the huge and senseless use of plastic bottles. In fact, Americans use 50 billion plastic
In Japan, one of the most famous national dailies invented a one hundred percent sustainable newspaper. If you plant it, it will bloom!
John Magufuli nel giorno dell’indipendenza della Tanzania è uscito dal palazzo presidenziale e ha iniziato a raccogliere i rifiuti lasciati per terra.
The historical location of the Exhibition Hall of the Pirelli Tower will host one of the most interesting exhibitions of the year: Water is Life, by the photographer Eric Maillet. From 17 December 2015 to 18 January 2016 it will be possible to admire 25 artworks representing the undiscovered side of plastic bottles, collected by
Industrial uses of energy-rich vegetation, or biomass, as fuel can be key to the future of renewable energy. Biomass in the form of waste in particular is ideal as it is available at no cost. In Indonesia a forward-thinking company, Sido Muncul, is using the waste from the production of the popular herbal medicine jamu
Aiming to recycle organic waste, engineer Alberto Volcan created an eco-friendly leather bag made of apple scraps.
The American university adopted a new system that turns leftovers into animal feed, water and ingredients for the production of biofuel.
By using rubber scraps of Vibram shoe soles Carmina Campus, Ilaria Venturini Fendi’s brand, launched a new line of bags and shoes. All this was made possible thanks to recycling.
The low-cost fashion colossus H&M, launched an advertising campaign aimed to raise awareness on recycling and important ethical issues.
Building a house that generates the hydraulic and electrical energy it needs to be completely self-sufficient is finally possible. That’s what a team of Dutch researchers demonstrated by starting the Sustainer Homes project, the container house exclusively fuelled with renewable energy. It’s a mobile house of 30 square metres realised thanks to the recycling
