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• Surprise! Beer cans are less polluting than glass bottles

  People are increasingly aware of the harm plastic waste causes to wildlife, and many would avoid buying single-use plastics ...

  • The Conversation

• Tipping point? Humanity's stuff now weighs more than all living things

  Our deficiencies have always driven us, even among our distant ancestors, back in the last Ice Age. Having neither the speed ...

  • The Conversation

• The ewaste crisis could be avoided if we made batteries cheaper and easier to recycle

  As concern mounts over the impacts of climate change, many experts are calling for greater use of electricity as a substitute ...

  • The Conversation

• TerraCycle CEO Tom Szaky on why 'caring' about recycling isn't enough

  One of TNW 2020's speakers, TerraCycle CEO Tom Szaky, explains how sentiment about recycling is high, but actual recycling ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Microbes are cleaning up all your e-waste — here’s how

  If you were to stack up all the electronic waste produced annually around the world it would weigh as much as all the commercial ...

  • The Conversation

• Plastics could help build a sustainable future — yes, you read that right

  The disposal of plastics is a global problem. They are nearly indestructible in natural conditions but are discarded worldwide ...

  • The Conversation

• You can only see 1% of all microplastics dumped into the ocean

  What if the “great ocean garbage patches” were just the tip of the iceberg? While more than ten million tonnes of plastic ...

  • The Conversation

• Scientists are working on new ways to recycle chemicals from electronic waste

  Our connected consumer society generates a lot of electronic waste, around 50 million tonnes per year worldwide. It is even ...

  • The Conversation

• The EU’s dull-ass fight with Apple over the Lightning connector sucks

  Well, it looks official: The EU is going to fight Apple over the Lightning connector. And you know what? They all suck. And ...

  • Callum Booth

• Nebia's new showerhead helps you save more water with fewer compromises

  Soaking in the bath with a good book is my type of relaxing night, but it's also a tremendous waste of water, so I've been ...

  • Napier Lopez

• This site dares you to literally 'give a shit for science'

  A pair of startups yesterday launched a campaign to convince people to send them pictures of their poop. We bet you didn't ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Five 3D printing myths dispelled

  The first conviction for 3D printing a firearm was recently reported in London, not long after 3D printed masks were used ...

  • The Conversation

• How supermarkets can reduce packaging to save the planet from drowning in garbage

  It was inspiring to read about the launch of Waitrose’s trial in Oxford offering consumers a range of products free of ...

  • The Conversation

• We can't recycle black plastic, but now we can use its carbon for renewable energy

  The big problem with plastics is that though they last for a very long time, most are thrown away after only one use. Since ...

  • The Conversation

• How to save the planet? Milkmen had the answer all along

  Laure Cucuron, Managing Director of specialist recycling firm TerraCycle, took to one of the coziest stages on the first ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• 5 clever startups that are making money recycling waste

  These amazing startups found innovative, long-term solutions to manage the world’s waste — and you can now support them ...

  • Mica Allan

• AI is helping regulators keep tabs on new industrial farms and their waste discharging habits

  Researchers have developed an algorithm that uses satellite imagery to rapidly pinpoint industrial livestock farms, manifold ...

  • Emma Bryce

• Nobel Prize winner wants to fight nuclear waste with lasers

  The work of Nobel Prize winner Gerard Mourou could potentially solve (or at least mitigate) a major problem in the energy ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• The hidden secrets of insect poop

  Insect defecation may not seem like one of the pressing scientific inquiries of our time, but in fact the faeces of these ...

  • The Conversation

• Recycling the world’s plastic garbage could buy you the NFL, Apple and Microsoft

  This year, I served on the judging panel for The Royal Statistical Society’s International Statistic of the Year. On ...

  • The Conversation