Walmart on a Black Friday. Photo: Laurie Did you know that Americans produce 25 percent more waste than usual between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day, sending an additional one million tons a week to landfills? This COVID-19 holiday season, with online shopping the preferred gift giving method for many, we will likely generate even more waste mailing packages …
Qatar Academy Sidra students recently planted 15 trees, 20 bushes, 150 tomato plants, and more than 500 seasonal flowers around campus to honour Dr Jane Goodall’s commitment to planting 5mn trees in 2020, and to help create a local ‘greening’ community. “The planet is in danger, and children understand that,” said Preet Dhaliwal, Sustainability Instructional …
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The frequent and rapid environmental pollution causes serious threat to biodiversity and also disturbs the natural ecosystem. Due to excessive use of chemicals during food production human beings suffer from a number of incurable diseases such as cancer, heart attack, kidney damage, liver cirrhosis, etc. The word “sustainable” has become very popular these days and …
Though conservation is the key purpose behind these shoes, style does not take a backseat either What happens to vehicle tyres once they have outlived their purpose? Often, the end-of-life tyres are put through thermochemical treatment under high temperature, to produce industrial oil and other matter, in a process called pyrolysis. The procedure emits polluting …
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Ning Yan and her collaborators in the Low-Carbon Renewable Materials Centre (LCRMC) are developing a new generation of products made from forestry biomass — including currently under-utilized materials such as tree bark. (Photo: Tyler Irving) Canada’s forests are a key source of renewable materials, from paper to lumber. Yet many of the industry’s most common products …
