$62.5bn is lost in 50 million tonnes of electronic waste a year, but tech can help the process of dematerialisation, changing physical assets to electronic.
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Sir, – As part of any plan to abolish the use of single-use plastic bottles, the Government should require airports to provide prominent drinking water points where travellers can fill their own multi-use bottles. It could be done this week. – Yours, etc, VINCENT MURPHY, Cork.
IPAT, why? This article is among a series revisiting the IPAT equation.Briefly, Paul Ehrlich [1] and colleagues in the 1970s [2] formulated this relation, that states that impact of a society is based on three main components – the number of people (Population), their level of consumption or income…
At VMware, we’re celebrating Earth Day by endangering single-use plastics to help thousands of endangered species. The disposable items we use and forget are…
As cities across the globe take action to reduce the amount of plastics in recycling systems and landfills, Toronto is gearing up to take another look at its plastic-reduction policies.
We present a software system for fused deposition modelling 3D printing that replaces infill material with scrap to reduce material and energy consumption. Example scrap objects include unused 3D prints from prototyping and calibration, household waste like coffee cups, and off-cuts from other fabrication projects. To achieve this, our system integrates into an existing CAD workflow and manages a database of common items, previous prints, and manually entered objects. While modelling in a standard CAD application, the system suggests objects to insert, ranked by how much infill material they could replace.
The US is a middling performer on sustainability.