One strategy for reducing food waste's environmental impact is as counterintuitive as it is straightforward: Open more grocery stores.
Environment
Feb 4, 2020
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The tragic war underway in Sudan will soon start to impact neighboring countries, as refugees cross borders to flee the violence. Recurring civil conflicts have already displaced up to 3.2 million Sudanese internally. The ...
Environment
May 26, 2023
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The clumps of discarded hair on the salon floor could one day help to grow your lunchtime salad, thanks to scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), who have created the growth medium used ...
Biochemistry
Sep 21, 2022
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This week brought news that atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) levels at the Mauna Loa atmospheric observatory in Hawaii have risen steeply for the seventh year in a row, reaching a May 2019 average of 414.7 parts per million ...
Environment
Jun 7, 2019
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Earthworms could be used to extract toxic heavy metals, including cadmium and lead, from solid waste from domestic refuse collection and waste from vegetable and flower markets, according to researchers writing in the International ...
Environment
Aug 16, 2012
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A UK city has become the first in the world to use city wide surveys to track plastic waste, in an effort to tackle plastic pollution.
Environment
Jun 9, 2023
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Bacteria may be the key to produce useful bioplastics from the gasification of urban waste.
Energy & Green Tech
Mar 12, 2014
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Food waste is one of the most important issues of current food systems: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has estimated that more than one third of food is either lost or wasted along the entire food supply chain causing ...
Environment
Oct 19, 2020
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Urban agriculture as a global phenomenon is widely promoted as a sustainable land use practice. On small plots and in big projects, using sophisticated technology or simple solutions, city dwellers around the world are producing ...
Ecology
Mar 14, 2023
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Researchers from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid suggest a new methodology to assess the environmental impact of the containers used for the collection of urban waste.
Environment
Jun 29, 2017
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