Planet

Recycled plastics for fashion victims
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Planet 5 min
Cashing in on plastic waste
What if plastic waste were worth money, could be a resource, an asset even ... There is an awareness building in some European countries, and many are already working to put end-of-life plastics to go...
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Planet 2 min
Did you say "Bio-Based"?
After food and textiles, the organic trend is continuing to spread. Organically-sourced plastics, biodegradable plastics, bioplastics, biopolymers...so many names! But what exactly do they all mean? W...
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Planet 2 min
Plastics to the aid of energy control
Plastic bring their fair share of solutions when faced with challenges related to global warming. Industries nowadays devote a large part of their research to developing new materials that meet increa...
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Planet 2 min
Upcycling: ethical and aesthetic recycling
Several years ago, a new word entered our vocabulary, without our knowing exactly what it meant: Upcycling, a new trend found in all four corners of the world...
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Planet 3 min
Exotic formula: plastic bricks
What do modest Brazilian dwellings, a school in Guatemala, emergency shelters in Haiti or the futuristic Taipei Floral Pavilion have in common? Building so as to not throw anything away!...
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Planet 4 min
Masdar, a green green oasis in the country of black gold
Imagine a city of 50,000 inhabitants, with no cars, carbon dioxide or waste… in short, an ecological city of the future. Now imagine this city in a desert in the Persian Gulf, where temperatures can r...
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Planet 3 min
Recycled plastics for fashion victims
At a time when corporate ethics and social responsibility are increasingly in vogue and the state of the environment has everyone worried, fashion designers, ready-to-wear stores, clothing manufacture...
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Planet 2 min
Environment: an informed consumer is a wise consumer
Faced with growing consumer demand for environmental information on the products they buy, governments, distributors, businesses and others are stepping up the drive to develop product environmental l...
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Planet 3 min
Plastics + Sun = transport of the future
Whilst the aircraft Solar Impulse, propelled solely by solar energy, successfully made its first night flight on 07 July, the catamaran PlanetSolar is preparing for its first world tour on solar energ...