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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 =…

How might a next generation fiber cup be designed? Could the design make it recoverable on a global scale and maintain the performance we expect from a cup? Here are some key takeaways from IDEO to keep in mind when designing a new reuse system.Sure, many headlines about reuse are still in pilot phase, but brands and retailers have to…

What’s the Most Energy-Efficient Water Heater? The unfortunate day will come when that trusted water heater springs a leak and shuts down permanently, prompting an urgent call to the plumber. What will you do? Buy the same old water heater they used fifty years ago? The technological advances and increasing energy efficiency found in the…

Biden has vowed to make the issue of climate change a top priority in an agenda that reverses many Trump administration policies. Biden says he will re-join the Paris Climate Agreement immediately upon taking office and “put America back in the business of leading the world on climate change.” Alongside the Paris Climate Agreement, Biden will convene a climate summit…