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"We can feed black soldier flies straight, dirty trash," says a team that's working to turn insects into landfill-clearing biomanufacturing machines that turn regular, dangerous or contaminated garbage into a range of high-value products.Continue ReadingCategory: Environment, ScienceTags: Macquarie University, Insect, Genetic engineering, Climate Solutions: Landfills, Waste
SWNA developed 30 trash cans to be piloted in 15 high-traffic urban locations. The post charming animal ears decorate seoul’s city trash cans designed by SWNA appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.
Clear Robotics is expanding its fleet of autonomous marine trash collectors. Its Class 3 vessel boasts more onboard storage capacity plus towed barge potential for extended cleanup operations, and has also been designed to tackle invasive weeds.Continue ReadingCategory: Environment, ScienceTags: Autonomous, Plastic waste, Electric Boats, Waste, Robots
qua autonomously moves around the city, approaching users when it identifies their need to dispose of waste. The post duck-like trash can robots follow pedestrians to keep the city clean through their qua system appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.
Though efforts to clean up plastic waste from our oceans are well underway, it's also vital to stem the tide at a major source of pollution: rivers. Researchers in South Korea are looking to doing just that at a "living lab" facility in Gongju.Continue ReadingCategory: Environment, ScienceTags: korea, Plastic waste, River, Marine, Pollution
The Ocean Cleanup is possibly best known for deploying huge trash collectors to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, but has also sought to prevent plastic waste from reaching the oceans. The latest Interceptor vessel will prevent around 1,000 tons of plastic flowing into the Java Sea each year from the Cisadane River in Indonesia.Continue ReadingCategory: Environment, ScienceTags: Ocean Cleanup proj
the current flowing in the jellyfish robots allows them to collect objects and waste particles, and transport them to the surface. The post pulsating jellyfish robots can pick up and vacuum ocean trash using artificial muscles appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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