Tag: waste management

Bezalel Adainoo

How Food Waste is Engineered into Useful Products in a Circular Economy

September 2, 2020

Foods destined for the landfill can have a second life as engineered products. Companies are taking waste such as...

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Vivek Patil

The Solution Is in Biology: A Startup Takes Biogas to the Kitchen

December 4, 2017

What if I tell you that, each time you pay for power at your home or for the gas...

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Ben Taylor

Can a bracelet craze clean our oceans?

May 9, 2017

4Ocean has put an artistic spin on a straightforward solution to plastic pollution in the oceans....

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Ben Taylor

Floating sea bags are set to scour plastic waste from the ocean by 2020

March 18, 2017

Artificial coastlines crafted from floating sea bags have emerged as a plan for cleaning up plastic trash in the ocean....

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Rob Goodier

Promising Prototypes to Watch in 2017

January 19, 2017

Prototypes are pushing the field of global development technology forward as they evolve in workshops, universities, laboratories and even...

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Rob Goodier

3D Printing with E-Waste: Five Questions for Roy Ombatti

August 26, 2016

Roy Ombatti turns sobering e-waste statistics around by using the waste to build salable 3D printers. The world generates...

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Rob Goodier

Video: Revo-LOO-tionary toilet design

September 19, 2012

Why would someone in rural Cambodia want a toilet? Finding out the answer to that question has helped iDE...

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Rob Goodier

Five Questions with Sasha Kramer

July 8, 2012

Sasha Kramer’s enthusiasm for recycling poop is contagious. After hearing from her, it’s not hard to imagine the need...

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Rob Goodier

How can rural villages manage mountains of empty plastic bottles?

July 14, 2011

What can rural communities in Guyana do to handle mounds of plastic bottles in their trash?...

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Rob Goodier

Sanitation and bridge in La Granja and Nuevo Ferrocarril, El Salvador

October 31, 2010

Waste water from sinks, showers, and toilets once spilled into the streets of La Granja, a small town in...

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