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Recycling, an activity once associated with empty milk cartons and hippies, is getting a corporate makeover. Last week, tire giant Continental announced that it will use reprocessed polyester taken from recycled polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles in its tire production starting in 2022. The raw materials for the polyester — a type of plastic — traditionally used in tire manufacturing is derived from crude oil and natural gas. Making a complete set of vehicle tires will make use of more than 60 recycled PET bottles. In lab and road testing, tires made with polyester fibers obtained from bottles performed as well as tires made with traditional fibers.
What we eat, or wear, or even the way we travel, everything has an impact on the world we live in. While it is not always easy to make informed decisions, a growing number of apps are at hand to help us lead more sustainable lives. We bring you the top few.
Kingston will get five new water fountains across the borough thanks to a new project announced by the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan today (July 18).
Havana, Nov 4 (Prensa Latina) Economy, technology and sustainable development will be the issues today in the workshop ‘Sciences in the construction of Cuban society and culture,’ which brings together specialists from these branches.
Hi-Cone teams up with Avangard Innovative to put can rings in a recycled production loop…
Woolcool is encouraging customers to send back its wool boxes and liners to be cleaned and re-used…