♻️ Green Tech
♻️ A new type of recyclable plastic
Plastic pollution being a massive problem isn’t news to anyone. Now a newly published paper tells us that hard plastic polymer can be broken down and recycled with near-perfect efficiency.How? Well, the hard plastic polymer can be manufactured with “break-points” in...
🐝 More bees cause fewer forest fires in the rainforest
Swedish agriculture, where forests are felled and then burned to create new agricultural land, is a major threat to many rainforests. On the one hand, the part of the forest that is cut down disappears, and on the other hand, swidden farming can start forest fires...
👕 Used cotton clothing can be turned into nylon or ethanol
Recycling cotton is not entirely easy and this means that 25 million tonnes of cotton textiles are incinerated or dumped around the world every year. A new method can now make it possible to convert cotton fabrics into ethanol or new textiles in nylon and spandex.The...
🐢 Mayonnaise rescues turtles that have ended up in oil spills
A major oil spill on the affected Mediterranean coast of Israel at the end of February. As a result, tons of tar lumps were washed up on the beaches and many animals were covered with tar and also got tar in their mouths and throat.The latter causes the animals to...
