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Plastic Matters February 2021 |
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Closing the circle on plastic waste By Victoria Burrows Engineers and environmentalists support a circular economy that designs waste into the loop. Structural engineer and architect Arthur Huang is on a mission not only to show that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure, but to remove the concept of waste entirely. His company, Miniwiz, transforms rubbish into building blocks for new products. |
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Engineering solutions to the plastic waste challenge By Philippe Ducom When people ask me what I do, I usually give the easy answer: “I’m an engineer.” What that really means is my work is about finding solutions. We engineers use our technical expertise to enhance products and processes, develop novel technologies and try to find solutions to complex challenges. The challenge of plastic waste is a perfect example. |
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This man is turning discarded PPE kits into usable bricks. By Taniya Dutta As coronavirus cases spread around the world earlier this year, Binish Desai found himself increasingly nervous. It wasn’t only the pandemic that worried him, but the waste it was generating. By September, he had come up with a solution. |
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Father And Son Are Turning Disused Plastic Bottles Into Sunglasses. By Stewart Perrie A father and his nine-year-old son have teamed up to start making sunglasses in Australia out of disused plastic bottles. There is so much rubbish that ends up in our landfills and recycling centres every year and Nik Robinson wanted to make sure that this trash was being turned into treasure. |
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Karnataka village to produce foot mats and interlock tile with plastic waste By Hans News Service Ujire Gram Panchayat is part of Belthangadi taluk in Dakshin Kannada district, Karnataka. The village produces nearly 1.5 tonne of garbage a day and it was the biggest challenge to convince people to segregate their waste at the source. TO solve this problem, their Panchayat Development Officer launched the "My Waste, My Responsibility" initiative. |
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The ‘Plastic to fuel’ project takes off to a smooth start By Nishikant Karlikar The Kalyan Dombivali Municipal Corporation (KDMC) has successfully conducted its trail run of the ‘Plastic to Fuel’ project at Barave and now applied to the state green body, MPCB, for permission to produce alternate fuel from plastic waste, to implement the project on a mass scale. |
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