Pollution

Scientists have designed a new material system to overcome one of the biggest challenges in recycling consumer products: mixed-plastic recycling. Their achievement will help enable a much broader range of fully recyclable plastic products and brings into reach to an efficient circular economy for durable goods like automobiles.

When you wash denim, tiny fibers shed and flow into the environment. Scientists just found that Arctic waters are now loaded with little bits of jeans.

Eco-friendly technology could potentially replace concrete and revolutionise sector

La station d'épuration de l'usine Nestlé située sur l’Aisne reconnaît un « débordement ponctuel et involontaire d'effluents de boues biologiques». Des analyses sont en cours. Une plainte a été déposée.

The fashion and technology sectors alike have been abuzz about high-tech fabrics derived from genetically engineered microorganisms. In a new report, civil society experts cut through the hype, suggesting that any commercial-scale expansion of biotech textiles could undermine farmers worldwide, create a dangerous new source of biotech waste, put additional pressure on ecosystems, and divert support away from truly sustainable natural fiber economies.