Better Armenia
Waste plastic can be the replacement for regular asphalt and the process is the same requiring no change in installation. In India people fill the potholes with plastic trash and melt it into the place. In UK and other countries people are getting this idea for inspiration and making it happen. You can read about […]
Austin, Texas is paying homeless 15$ per hour in cash, lunch and transportation for cleaning up parks from garbage. A non-profit foundation started this action with city council agreement to help homeless and the city. Read more about this program in this link.
The great pacific garbage patch is located between California and Hawaii, where it is known to be the largest accumulation of plastic. It is estimated that 1.15 to 2.4 million tons of plastics is entering the ocean each year and due to winds and currents these plastics from all over the world will travel to […]
Each year during coffee harvest tons of husk is wasted as raw material. A company made a reusable recyclable cup out of these coffee husk waste called HuskeeCup which is durable and comfortable to hold. This cup will keep the coffee hotter for a longer time. You can check this cup and learn more about […]
In in Rome, you can pay for your metro or bus rides with plastic bottles. People receive 5 cents for each bottle in any size, which makes each journey worth 30 bottles. A PET recycling company partnered with their municipality for this action in order to collect these bottles. You can read more about this […]
There is a win win solution for grocery plastic bags and people! It is making sleeping mats or pillows out of plastic bags for homeless. Beside a project named Plasticbagmats, people around the world are performing this individually. In this project people volunteer to help collect the bags, cut them, loop cut bags together and […]
A Mexican entrepreneur founded a company called EcoDom, which develops products out of recycled plastics and card boards, and even built houses for low income families. These houses are amazingly cheap, as a 42 square meter house would cost 265$ and the buyers are allowed to pay with work instead. While they are cheap, their […]
Recently a cafe has opened in Ambikapur, north Chhattisgarh, called “Garbage Cafe”. They initiated a step toward making the city plastic-free by offering free meals in exchange for one kilogram of plastic from poor and homeless and breakfast for half a kilogram. You can read more about this innovative cafe in this news link.
Many items don’t need to be thrown away – they can be reused! if it is in a good shape , You can donate this item to a number of non profit organizations. You can also try “up-cycling” the item into something new. Alternatively, this item should be placed 0.5 meter (2 feet) away from […]
There is a project called Bottle School which is performed by Hug It Forward organization in Guatemala. The school’s walls are built out of plastic bottles stuffed with plastic bags and other trash for isolation collected and made by students or volunteers. They bound the bottles between chicken wires connected to metal frames, and cement […]