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Because were in the room with these organisations all the time. so, lets just imagine were a biscuit brand, 0k? weve been for decades making biscuit wrappers that are not recyclable, and now we want to make it recyclable and theres no suitable commercially viable design choices. so, their next best bet is to take voluntary responsibility over that particular waste stream. terracycle says its on a mission to change the world. i think we can shift and become much more in tune with nature and consu...

Manufacturers to make a device that last significantly longer than its warranty period this is expensive for the consumer and a waste of energy and resources on the environmental level but the right to repair movement is growing in many countries we joined a global gathering of repairers thinkers and activists in bali. electronic goods are the fastest growing waste stream in the world in less than a decade the lifespan of a television in germany dropped from more than 10 years to less than 6 of ...

Or a farm. its every forest that gets chopped down. its every plastic bag that goes out into the waste stream. its pesticides. its cats, house cats kilotons of birds every year. and the stunning number is in one lifetime, since 1970, three billion birds were lost in north america, u.s. and canada. thats 29%. so one in every four birds. and erin, this leads to what scientists call sort of the shifting baseline syndrome, which is you can tell your daughter when i was a girl, there was so much bird...

Fotons from the sun and rainfall. it converts it into sugar. we take the waste stream and a chemical process and we can create a comfortable foam we call sweet folk that trabs carbon out of the atmosphere and locks night the bottom of the shoe. i think this is a way where we internalized what that carbon cost is for the environment instead of just socializing that out to the world and letting other people pay for it in the cost of healthcare and other things. >> i know you got into this business...

Put into the waste stream in the first place in less than half the elements the rest of them are never fully recovered so we are basically consuming and throwing away some of these very precious materials they have a range of materials which are regarded in the us as toxic materials lead is one which most people would hear of but theyre also cadmium arsenic which people are aware of as a poison mercury and there are others as well which can be detrimental to health so as long as we control the a...

Is the gold. so wherever there are buttons theres usually gold thats why smartphones are a little bit cheaper to make in some respects to some extent because they dont use . all this goal is the contract so they simply dont have a keyboard and buttons. from this design. not much thought given to how you get the recyclable materials out of here how you get the valuable materials that maybe even how you get the toxic materials are just great with the design just common sense tells you that this is...

It is pinning hopes of becoming a mainstream carmaker with the model 3. tesla delivered 1,500 cars. the reservation list is 500,000. dunkin donuts is going green. it will ditch styrofoam cups. it is replacing with a double walled cup. it matters what it does. it is already using the paper cup in some locations. it estimates the move will remove 1 billion foam cups from the waste stream per year. the first fast food chain to end foam. mcdonalds got rid of the clam shells. >> social media was no...

One company has come one a way to wear collections. with the one simple thing, heres search the any. >> reporter: ask new yorkers how they get rid of clothe thez dont want anymore, youre likely to get the same answer. ? just thank you them in the trash. >> i would just throw it away. >> it turns out tech times make up about 6% of new yorks waste a year. amounts to about 386 million pounds of tech times headinged to our waste stream. that can be reused for other purposes. >> wearable collection...

You can put it into the landfill for less. but the problem with the mattress in a landfill is it does not breakdown. it takes up a lot of space in the landfill and it does not compact well. we have the richest waste stream in the world. if we would hand that as an asset instead of a liability, we could create long-term permanent jobs, stus staustain a lot of p we want for our community in a way that is cost effective and help save the environment. >> i was actually thinking of another story. may...