E-waste start-up EWIK contains the country’s growing waste while offering vulnerable communities a chance to earn an income.
05/03/2025
The sea is full of plastic buoys that never decompose. Could a new design of wooden buoy be the biodegradable solution our oceans need?
03/02/2025
Sodium-ion batteries have come and gone out of fashion. But a new burst of enthusiasm for the lithium battery replacement could spell a promising future.
16/12/2024
By providing localised knowledge, the Kijani app enables farmers to choose the right crops for a greener Sub-Saharan Africa.
16/10/2024
Digital Product Passports will tell consumers about the sustainability of their clothes. Will they reduce the industry’s carbon emissions?
23/09/2024
Net zero will only be achieved if we capture the excess carbon in the atmosphere. Thanks to new research, capturing carbon with light is now a viable, cost-effective method of carbon capture.
22/07/2024
Electronic waste is not only resource intensive, but, recycling it is also inefficient. Could this common food byproduct improve the process, and is this really the best solution, after all?
27/03/2024
Inefficient sorting means 25 percent of materials end up wrongly in landfills. AI is increasingly helping recycling centres ensure everything ends up where it belongs.
29/11/2023
The CUBE in Dresden proves that carbon concrete is an exciting building material for a successful building turnaround.
27/09/2023
The environmental impact of construction waste is diverse and abundant. Ecosystem destruction, natural resource consumption, pollution creation – it has all the hallmarks of a bonafide ecological menace. In fact, the construction industry accounts…
30/08/2023
Living walls are a practical, and beautiful, way of adding greenery and lowering heating emissions in our cities. Here's how technology could be used to aid them.
28/08/2023
What if we could upcycle agricultural waste into a cheap, sustainable and biodegradable building material? Mycelium shows it's possible.
09/08/2023
