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Day: August 24, 2018
St. Louis suburb suspends curbside recycling collection
Read the full story in WasteDive. Officials in the St. Louis, Missouri suburb of Kirkwood have decided to suspend the city’s curbside recycling collection program, starting on
Helping soldiers print with reclaimed plastic
Read the full story in Chemical & Engineering News. Bottles and containers could become feedstocks for 3-D printing on remote military bases.
Can DNA collected from pond water help save frogs?
Help fund this project. Amphibians are experiencing a global extinction event. Nearly 200 species are thought to be extinct, and two-thirds of amphibian species are
This new park is designed for a future of flooded cities
Read the full story in Fast Company. Bangkok’s Chulalongkorn Centennial Park can hold a million gallons of rainwater to help control the city’s increasing floods.
A brief history of plastic, design’s favorite material
Read the full story in Fast Company. More and more Americans reckon with their wild overuse of plastic. Here’s how we got so dependent on
