Yoda: Alert Reader on Japanese Machine Making Fuel From Plastic
Alert Reader writes in: Japanese Inventor creates machine that transforms plastic bags into fuel (inhabitat.com) Japanese ‘Blest Machine’ recycles plastic into oil at home | WIRED UK
Koko: Special Report on Plastic Tide / Waste / Pollution
Koko sad. Stupid humans. Special Report: A Plastic Tide The world now produces 299 million tons of plastics a year, most of which ends up in the oceans A hard-hitting documentary from Sky News, “A Plastic Tide,” showcases the urgent problem of plastic pollution and what some activists are doing about it Volunteers in Mumbai, …
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Koko: Ocean cleanup device successfully collects plastic for first time
Koko happy. But nano-plastics should be forbidden. Ocean cleanup device successfully collects plastic for first time A huge floating device designed by Dutch scientists to clean up an island of rubbish in the Pacific Ocean that is three times the size of France has successfully picked up plastic from the high seas for the first …
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Yoda: First Ocean Cleanup System will begin operations in a few weeks and sixty systems will remove 50% of ocean plastic within 5 years
Good, news is. First Ocean Cleanup System will begin operations in a few weeks and sixty systems will remove 50% of ocean plastic within 5 years Cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch using conventional methods – vessels and nets – would take thousands of years and tens of billions of dollars to complete. Ocean …
Marcin Jakubowski: 3D Printer Recycling Plastic Saving Civilization – Open Source Ecology and Global Village Construction Set March On….
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Elisabet Sahtouris: Mega Solution for Ocean Plastic Deposits
This year’s top Katerva Award went to young Dutchman Boylan Slat for his super ocean cleaner project for coralling and sucking up plastics faster than anyone else so far. In August, he will conduct a “Mega Expedition,” leading fifty ships between Hawaii and California in the first-ever effort to create a high-resolution map of oceanic …
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Marcin Jakubowski: Open Source Plastic Recycling Possibilities
Pellets can be made on a small scale – with so much plastic around. I think the most effective scale is that of every town – any recycling department should be making plastic wares. Dave Hakkens, our friend, does this. See the shredder. Solar Power is in our plan with our Solar Powered Materials Production …
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