Pollution Solutions


5 Futuristic Food Wrappers That You Don’t Have to Throw Away

Source: wired.com Published: September 2, 2014 photo credit: Image credit: Tomorrow Machine via ScienceAlert Margaret Rhodes You wake up, eat some Greek yogurt, then throw out the plastic cup. Later on, you get a salad and a mini-bag of chips, and then you throw away...

Urban Algae Farm Gobbles Up Highway Air Pollution

Source: iflscience.com Published: November 4, 2014 Cloud Collective A French and Dutch design firm has come up with an elegantly simple way to harness the wonderful power of nature in order to clean up the environment: an algae farm suspended over a small stretch of...

New Species of Metal-Munching Plant Found in Philippines

Source: rt.com Published: May 12, 2014 Rinorea niccolifera. Photo courtesy Dr. Edwino S. Fernando Scientists in the Philippines have discovered a plant that can absorb large amounts of metal without itself being poisoned, a species called the Rinorea niccolifera, that...

A New Trash-To-Energy Plant Planned for Arizona

Source: gigaom.com Published: May 6, 2013 Credit: Image Courtesy of Purplrpix by Katie Fehrenbacher The city of Oslo turns so much of its trash into energy, that it actually imports garbage into the city to heat and light many of its buildings. While the process is...

19-Year-Old Has A Solution for Cleaning Our Oceans!

Source: inhabitat.com Published: March 26, 2013  by Timon Sing 19-year-old Boyan Slat has unveiled plans to create an Ocean Cleanup Array that could remove 7,250,000 tons of plastic waste from the world’s oceans. The  device consists of an anchored  network of...

Micro-Algae Lamp Absorbs 150-200 Times More CO2 than a Tree!

Source: treehugger.com Published: April 5, 2012 CleanTechnica/via Petz Scholtus petzdelux French biochemist and Shamengo pioneer Pierre Calleja has invented this impressive streetlight that is powered by algae which absorbs CO2 from the air. We have featured...