BY: JESSICA BEUKER In an environmentally-friendly move by Scotland’s Government, the country is looking to ban, both the manufacture and sale of, plastic-stemmed cotton swabs. The move would make them the first country in the U.K. to do so. The…
Move towards environmental sustainability with these 10 inventions
The concept of environmental sustainability isn’t new. With the risk of sounding like a broken record, for the benefit of those who are unaware, sustainability simply using resources available to our benefit while making sure there will still be enough for the future…
New packaging made from milk is edible, biodegradable and reduces food spoilage
The environment is becoming an increasing concern worldwide, as the amount of waste each year grows. In 2009, each Canadian was said to produce around 777 kg. of waste, leaving the environment in much worse shape than we found it. Many…
Henry Ford built a plastic car in 1941 that was stronger than steel (VIDEO)
(Source: © John Lloyd/Flickr/Licence) With electric cars just beginning to become practical, one has to imagine where we’d be if we had started thinking greener with our automobiles over 70 years ago. All the decades we could have spent dealing with…
Bulletproof, fireproof, environmentally friendly homes are being made from plastic bottles
BY: JESSICA BEUKER The streets of downtown Toronto are vibrant and busy at all times of the day. During the day business women rapidly click their heels and talk a mile a minute into their cellphones. Students hustle off to…
This man built a floating solar-powered fortress made out of 150,000 recycled water bottles
BY: MATTHEW CHIN Off the cost of Isla Mujeres Bay in Cancun, Mexico, environmentalist and architect Richart Sowa lives comfortably on his island made of over 150,000 recycled water bottles. Sowa first built his floating abode in 2005, but harsh…
Graphene is a newly-discovered material that could replace plastic, steel, rubber and medicine.
BY: TJ MOREY With the advent of humans and the decline of humanity, we seem to have become our own Nostradamus—prophesying the doom of this planet we call home. Luckily, there are still individuals optimistic and innovative enough to (hopefully)…
At 20, Boyan Slat is developing a device to remove 7,250,000 tons of plastic from our oceans
BY: DEXTER BROWN Slat’s ambitious quest started on a Greek scuba diving trip when he was only 16. “I saw more plastic bags than fish,” the Dutch engineering student told the BBC. “Everyone said to me: ‘Oh there’s nothing you can do about plastic…
16-year-old inventor proves banana peels could be the future of plastic
BY: LAURA ROJAS So it turns out a girl named Elif Bilgin, a 16-year-old junior at Koç High School in Istanbul, Turkey, submitted a project to the 2013 Google Science Fair that won her the “Science in Action Award.” She…