Could barnyard animals provide a key to greener energy?  Scientists have found that the anaerobic gut fungi in goats, sheep, and horses produce a diverse and flexible set of enzymes…

Company Ola Electric has begun construction on an electric scooter megafactory capable of producing 2 million scooters per year. So what? While other EV manufacturing plants, like Volkswagen Group’s Zwickau…

Carol Brighton on Twitter WasteasaResource: Brewers & distillers use #foodwaste as a resource #signalofchange https://t.co/DT7FrxsBMO

Ryanair has pledged to eliminate all non-recyclable plastics from its operations by 2023, and introducing a voluntary carbon offset payment for customers when booking. As well as switching to biodegradable…

Carol Brighton on Twitter London buses are being powered by a new fuel: Coffee – #signalofchange https://t.co/cbXotvRnCu via @CNNMoney

“More and more plastic products are being made from recycled pollution. This Shoe Without A Footprint is the latest demonstration.   The sole of a new sneaker was once pollution:…

veganbottle on Twitter Un français invente la 1ère bouteille 100% végétale #innovation #france #ecolo #ecologique #environnement #environment #compostable #vegetale #nature #bio https://t.co/3noVMQHtgJ

Gwyneth Fries on Twitter By and for catadores: Enabling tech for independent waste collectors in Brazil #fctracker https://t.co/Q9rhibAdMS via @TheEconomist

Hotel recycles 500kg of food waste into fertiliser within 24 hours using food-waste digester SINGAPORE – Grand Hyatt, a hotel near Orchard Road, has saved $100,000 a year, just by…

A team of engineers based at the University of Utah has created components of LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes) out of waste from food and beverage. Bread, tortillas and soda were…

Seeking to demonstrate Iron as a circular fuel source, Dutch students applied their theory to a brewery in the Netherlands. The researchers combusted finely ground iron powder by adding oxygen,…

Used Nissan Leaf batteries are now being re-purposed to build new Nissan Leafs, and other electric vehicles (EVs). As part of Nissan’s efforts to collect and re-purpose used battery packs,…

Apple has pledged to ‘stop mining the earth altogether’ in an unprecedented goal for a tech industry company. Apple’s 2017 Environment Responsibility Report commits the company to a goal of…

Redesigned Ocean Cleanup arrays to start scooping up Pacific garbage patch within a year The Ocean Cleanup just made a huge announcement from Werkspoorkathedraal, an exhibition in the Netherlands. CEO…

A study published in Nature Energy finds that 344 prefecture-level Chinese cities can achieve solar PV electricity prices lower than grid-supplied prices, without subsidies.    Reaching grid parity – the point at which…

Through reduced costs, resource use, and carbon footprints, a report from Accenture and Dassault Systèmes suggests that Virtual Twins could unlock $1.3 trillion in economic value and save 7.5 Gt…

Interesting article today about turning landfill methane into protein:   Mitsui and science startups look to landfill gas for sustainable food for the future | The Japan Times Imagine a…

The 150-Mile Wardrobe: A Solution for One of the World’s Most Polluting Industries Between pesticides, chemical dyes, and plastic, producing a typical sweater eats an enormous amount of natural and…

India has recently passed legislation that will ban the use of disposable plastic products in Delhi and its surrounding territory. The new regulation is being driven by the need to…

Water into wine… Spirits into fish-food?  At Lake Erie in Westfield, New York, a collaboration between TimberFish Technologies – a company producing feed from non-agricultural plant materials that grow on marginal lands –…

Microplastic contamination has been found in tap water in countries around the world, leading to calls from scientists for urgent research on the health implications.  Tap water samples from more…