Recycling

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How Beauty Waste Is Recycled Into Furniture | furniture, recycling, plywood | Lotion, tooth paste, and make-up packaging is a recycling disaster, but one UK family business has a complex process to give it a new life. It makes... | By Insider Tech | Facebook
3.6M views · 1.1K comments | Dough Made From Old Bread Could Help Reduce Waste | Though France has banned supermarkets from throwing out food, 150,000 metric tons of bread wind up in the trash every year. Le Crumbler grinds old bread... | By Insider Tech | Facebook
How Eco-Friendly Coffins Made Of Fungi Make Death Less Toxic | People pollute the earth even after they die. But the Loop coffin made from mushroom mycelium may finally put toxic funeral practices to rest. | By Insider Tech | Facebook
6M views · 163K likes | How Sand Made From Crushed Glass Rebuilds Louisiana’s Shrinking Coast | company | Two college students founded one of Louisiana's only glass recycling companies. They're turning glass into sand and using it for coastal restoration. | By Insider Tech | Facebook
4 Ways Of Recycling Waste Into Everyday Items | banana, elephant, recycling | From turning bananas into rugs to turning elephant poop into paper, these four companies are finding sustainable alternatives to everyday items. These... | By Insider Tech | Facebook
How Used Hotel Soap Gets Recycled Into Brand New Bars | Hotels throw out millions of used bars of soap every year. But two groups, one in Florida and one in France, collect the old bars and recycle them into... | By Insider Tech | Facebook
3.9M views · 1.4K comments | How Millions Of Jeans Get Recycled Into New Pairs | jeans, Pakistan, denim, company, clothing | We make more than a billion pairs of jeans every year. Like most clothing, the vast majority ends up in landfills. In Pakistan, which imports more used... | By Insider Tech | Facebook
Can Indian Seaweed Replace Plastic? | plastic, prize, edible seaweed | Thin-plastic food wrappers make up half the garbage floating in our oceans, but they’re difficult to recycle. One company has invented a way to replace... | By Insider Tech | Facebook
Most Ocean Plastic Flows From Rivers. Can Giant Trash Barriers Stop It? | plastic, river, ocean | The Ocean Cleanup started removing plastic from the ocean a decade ago. But most of that plastic comes from rivers, so it started building solar-powered... | By Insider Tech | Facebook
How Beauty Waste Is Recycled Into Furniture | recycling, plywood | Lotion, tooth paste, and make-up packaging is a recycling disaster, but one UK family business has a complex process to give it a new life. It makes... | By Insider Tech | Facebook
How Bricks Made From Invasive Seaweed Clean Mexico's Beaches | brick, Mexicans, entrepreneurship, edible seaweed | Millions of tons of sargassum wash up on beaches across North America every year. Exposure can lead to breathing problems, and it costs millions to clean... | By Insider Tech | Facebook