Plastic-free for you and me France goes plastic-free for 2022 by banning 30 types of plastic; more improvements for our planet to come. Plastic ban In 2022, France has banned 30 types of plastics from being consumed. Government officials estimate this change will save a billion items of single-use plastic from being used every year.…
Phenix, an Anti-waste Application 10 million tons: the quantity of unsold food in France. A third of the food produced in the world is thrown away without being consumed. Phenix applies itself to reduce this waste. The Idea Phenix has found local solutions for the food waste global dilemma. Since 2014, Phenix has worked with…
The planet is finally free of leaded gasoline No country in the world uses leaded gasoline anymore since Algeria has run out of its last reserves in July 2021. The disappearance of this fuel relieves environmentalists, since this gasoline was particularly harmful to the environment as well as to human health. It will contribute to…
Des centaines de millions d’arbres dans le Sahara Une impressionnante découverte possible grâce à l’Intelligence artificielle : 1,8 milliard d’arbres solitaires cartographiés et répertoriés dans une zone désertique en Afrique. La science au service de la biodiversité Grâce à des milliers d’images enregistrés par les satellites de la société Digital Globe, un groupe de chercheurs…
A seaweed meadow to fight global warming The world’s largest seaweed meadow could help combat climate change. Restoring underwater meadows Seagrass beds now cover only 0.2% of the seabed, while their capacity to absorb carbon is 35 times greater than that of tropical forests, according to WWF. An overall decrease is caused by human activity…
How a giant processing plant eliminated food waste After the radical realization that food waste is still food, Baldor’s Bronx facility started diverting scraps away from landfills and into restaurants and juice shops, where they become perfectly edible ingredients. Inside a massive warehouse in the Bronx, the food distributor Baldor processes a million pounds of produce a week, chopping…