Environment
⚡ PRTI Creates a Power Platform from Waste Tires
#ICYMI, A little known, but big impact company, Product Recovery Technology International, or PRTI, is revolutionizing how the value from waste tires is realized.
🌲 The EU wants to plant three billion trees and halve the use of pesticides by 2030
The EU Biodiversity Strategy will save both biodiversity and the economy.
🐝 An app with AI should save bee communities from dying
To save the bee communities from dying, a Swedish beekeeper has developed an app that, with the help of AI, analyzes how the bee community is feeling and what you can do to make it live and thrive.
🤩 Forget the PET bottle - time to make room for the plant-based material PEF
A new, plant-based packaging material will be able to replace plastic packaging in the food industry. It aims to be delivered to stores by as early as 2023.
🦑 AI maps the coral reef
Mapping and maintaining the coral reef has become an increasingly urgent task. But in order to implement the right measures in the right place, careful analysis of the condition is required. This is usually done by divers photographing. Now the work has been automated.
🌊 Scientists make history by becoming the first in the world to reproduce coral in human care
The historic breakthrough took place earlier this month at The Florida Aquarium’s Center for Conservation in Apollo Beach. The work is part of a collaboration effort to save the Florida Reef Tract from extinction.
🐝 Pakistan’s honey production increases by 70% thanks to Billion Tree Project
The Billion Tree project, launched in 2018, is an ambitious country-wide effort in Pakistan to plant 10 billion trees over a 5-year span. The project has already led to the planting of hundreds of thousands of trees, resulting in a huge boost in bee populations.
♻️ Majority of plastic recyclables in Halifax being turned into synthetic lumber
Halifax, Nova Scotia's unique arrangement with an innovative company is turning 80% of the city's recyclable plastics into lumber
🐬 The world's oceans can be healthy and full of life again until 2050
We can recover most of the damage we have caused to life in the sea over the last 100 years. This is the conclusion that researchers from 16 universities in 10 countries draw in a new report.