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Plastics + Sun = transport of the future
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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...
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  • Plastics transforming nature’s bounty
    Planet 4 min

    Plastics transforming nature’s bounty

    What is sustainable energy? Is it energy that doesn’t give off CO2? Energy from a non-finite, readily available source? Well, a bit of both actually! Basically, it’s about tapping and converting into,...

  • Plastics tending the crops
    Planet 4 min

    Plastics tending the crops

    Farmers seem to have found the magic formula to boost yields using fewer pesticides and less water. In two words: agricultural plastics. They have revolutionized farmers’ daily lives and our eating pa...

  • Sunshine and plastics: bright ideas for a better world
    Planet 2 min

    Sunshine and plastics: bright ideas for a better world

    While the Western world looks to green initiatives to halt global warming and reduce fossil fuel dependency, 1.6 billion people live without even electricity. A number of ingenious inventors decided t...

  • Cashing in on plastic waste
    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...

  • Did you say "Bio-Based"?
    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...

  • Plastics to the aid of energy control
    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...

  • Upcycling: ethical and aesthetic recycling
    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...

  • Exotic formula: plastic bricks
    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!...

  • Masdar, a green green oasis in the country of black gold
    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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