♻️ Green Tech
🪑 Danish designer seizes potential in seagrass
Seagrass has many amazing qualities, like providing nurseries and habitats for a variety of marine animals, improving water quality, capturing CO2, and removing plastic waste from our oceans.Now seagrass is being incorporated into furniture design in an attempt to...
♻️ Disposable masks are turned into litter-pickers
The Royal Cornwall Hospital situated in Truro wants to try and give disposable masks a new purpose after they’ve been used. They are now turning them into litter-pickers which they then provide to the 332 schools in Cornwall. Tanya Cowing from Sterile Services...
🚜 Fast-growing trees can reduce emissions in agriculture
Agriculture and forestry account for a quarter of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. As the global population grows, the pressure to produce more and more follows, which can lead to valuable wilderness being cultivated. But research shows that it is possible...
🚜 “Green” tractor provides more eco-friendly agriculture
A company in Lithuania has developed a tractor that, in its own way, runs on manure. It is a hybrid tractor that is powered by both methane gas and electric motors.The methane gas can come from manure, thus methane which otherwise would just dissipate into the...
