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Pee, Poop, and Perspiration Will Be Useful in Traveling to Mars
Astronauts' waste will not be wasted.
Astronaut poop could one day be recycled into Marmite-like food
I never liked Marmite.
The challenges of waste management in the shipping and transportation industry
Individuals and businesses can send and receive shipments from almost anywhere. But there's a hidden cost.
Americans aren’t only wasting the most food — they’re also throwing out the best bits
The worst of both worlds.
A fifth of the world’s food is lost to waste and over-eating
The world grows enough food. The challenge lies in controlling waste and protein distribution.
How to store food and cut waste: simple tips with a big impact
Do you know where you should keep mushrooms in the fridge? What vegetables are you allowed to keep outside? Find ...
Cooking nuclear waste into glass and ceramic materials could provide safe, efficient containment
Vitrification is the way to go.
New method developed to create biocrude oil from wastewater
From your toilet to the gas tank.
Rotterdam’s new sharks will eat all the trash in the port’s waters
Not really Jaws but they'll do the trick.
Adidas to award first 50 pairs of recycled ocean trash sneakers
The company has chosen to award the shoes via a raffle system on Instagram
Our best bet at stopping food waste is to be more responsible, not more efficient
Humans are throwing away an insane quantity of food, both in the developed and in developing countries. While in the ...
Renewable plastic made from CO2 and waste agriculture
Making bottles to meet America’s demand for bottled water uses more than 17 million barrels of oil annually, enough to ...
Give ugly veggies and fruits a second chance – they’re just as tasty
According to the United Nations, 20 to 40 percent of fresh food is thrown away by farmers because they don't ...
Do you know how much water goes to make your food?
Approximately 3.8tn cubic metres of water is used by humans annually with 70% being consumed by the global agriculture sector, ...
You’re flushing a goldmine down the toilet, literally
At a recent meeting of the of the American Chemical Society, researchers proposed a novel source of valuable metals: waste ...
Solar powered toilet locks greenhouse gases and increases crop yields
One of the 16 teams involved in a collaborative project funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that aims ...
Don’t blame Tesco for mass food wastage, get creative and make your weekly shop go further
Courtesy of gopure.com Tesco recently hit the news once again in a whirlwind of controversy as ...
Significant breakthrough in biofuels
I was writing a while ago that major biofuel production is not really that far away and the good news ...
‘Green Gasoline’ from sugar
This month, two independent teams have announced that they have succesfully converted sugar-potentially derived waste from agriculture and non-food plants ...
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