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Fashion Trends Are Often Recycled. Now More Clothing Can Be, TooDesigners and tech start-ups are working to improve sustainability and interrupt the path to the landfill by as much as 20%. The process, called NuCycl, will update the initial recycling step of sorting, grading and shredding fabric by adding a camera that can more accurately identify…

BladeBUG: Advanced Robot How can advanced robotics transform operations at offshore wind farms and reduce costs and maximize the useful life of the turbines? Whilst working as a turbine blade engineer BladeBUG founder, Chris Cieslak, became convinced that advanced robotics could transform operations at offshore wind farms, reducing costs and maximizing asset lifetimes. Robots and humans…

Recycling is Broken. How can we fix it? Do you try to recycle all your plastic – or even some of it?What if we said you could we be doing something else instead of recycling plastic? Remember the 3R’s – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle? You can REDUCE the amount of plastic you use by adding another R =…

There Is No Business As Usual: De-carbonizing Industry Must Start Now The transition away from fossil fuels will further marginalize the traditional energy sectors, accelerating said transition more, as political influence and financial incentives shift.To reach net-zero emissions, it is critical to decarbonize industrial sectors, but how? The transition away from fossil fuels will further…

Forget Silicon. This Material Could Be A Game-Changer For Solar PowerSolar energy is poised for what could be its biggest transformation in over half a century. A group of materials called perovskites are being used to create the next generation of solar panels, which could eventually be twice as efficient as current models, and flexible…

A Monster Wind Turbine Is Upending an Industry Twirling above a strip of land at the mouth of Rotterdam’s harbor is a wind turbine so large it is difficult to photograph. The turning diameter of its rotor is longer than two American football fields end to end. Later models will be taller than any building…