Planet
Eco-design: plastics in constant search of virtue
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...