Articles
Sunglasses made from ocean plastic to support clean waves
Clean Waves, a creative fundraising platform aimed at boosting the use of eco-innovative material in fashion and industrial design, launches a series of 3 limited-edition sunglasses, made from plastic retrieved from the ocean. Starting today, ...
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Always have a matching outfit with smartphone-controlled colour-changing e-fabric
Can’t find anything to wear, or doesn’t your bag match your outfit? Researchers at the University of Central Florida have developed the first colour- and pattern-changing e-fabric that can be controlled with a smartphone, called ...
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Bricks made from recycled PET bottles
In Argentina, 12 million plastic bottles are discarded each day, of which only 15 per cent is recycled. Simultaneously, 3 million Argentines lack decent housing. The non-profit Ecoinclusion Foundation decided to kill two birds with ...
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Noah: the world’s first circular car
Each year for the past five years, students from Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands create a car with sustainability in mind. Last year, this was Lina, the world’s first biobased car. This year, ...
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Wood cellulose material is stronger than spider silk
Spider silk has long been considered to be the strongest biobased material, and there have been many (successful) attempts in mimicking this material. However, a group of researchers from various institutions have now developed an ...
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From disposable diaper to source for raw materials
Disposable diapers are convenient for the parents, but because of their composite structure, recycling them is complicated. However, a team of researchers at Taiwan’s Chung Hua University has built a machine that can turn 100 ...
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