Turn Your E-Waste Into Furniture and Hide It In Plain Sight
There are lots of recycling programs that will happily salvage the raw materials from your outdated electronics. But if you still can't let your old 386 go, maybe Rodrigo Alonso has another solution...
View ArticleThe Most Complicated Way to Ruin Your MacBook
If you've got some time on your hands and never really liked your MacBook anyway, then you should think about dying it. Not only will it ruin your laptop's iconic design, it also takes hours to do.
View ArticleIt Takes a Hell of a Lot More Water Than You Think to Make Jeans, Burgers,...
Even though water covers nearly three-quarters of this blue dot of ours, most of that is salt water. We need freshwater to fuel the world. And freshwater is not as limitless as it seems, so wasting is...
View ArticleOslo in Crisis: Norwegian Recycling Town Is Running Out of Trash to Burn
Norway’s capital city has a serious waste management issue—they’re way too good at it. Half of Oslo’s 1.4 million residents rely on a steady stream of refuse to power their appliances and heat their...
View ArticleThe BBC Wasted £98m of Your Money and then Binned the Project
The BBC’s Digital Media Initiative was meant to modernise the way the BBC worked, produced content, and used and shared video and audio. Unfortunately, despite being labelled as “critical” to the BBC’s...
View ArticleThis Real-Life WALL-E Cruises Around Landfills Spotting Gas with Lasers
Landfills are pretty wretched places with all the rotting junk spewing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. It’s no wonder humans have started building robots to do the dirty work in dumps around the...
View ArticleWrong Kind of Excrement on the Line is Sickening Rail Workers
Rail franchise Greater Anglia is endangering the health of track staff according to workers, with more than half of its trains still indulging in the rotten old practise of emptying human waste from...
View ArticleYou’d Never Guess These Shelves are Made From Earthquake Rubble
Mother Nature is lovely, but relentless; more and more, it seems like recovery-mode is standard operating procedure for large swathes of the world. On a small scale, some designers are finding ways to...
View ArticleIs Human Urine the Future of Fertiliser?
Among the things I found mortifying about my parents when I was a teenager was their habit of leaving buckets of urine in the bathroom. Instead of flushing all that phosphorous-nitrogen-rich liquid...
View ArticleEcstasy in London? Heroin in Zagreb? The Answer is Found in the Sewers
Drug users might be less than forthright about their illicit habits—but they all have to pee. With that in mind, scientists are drug-testing entire sewer systems to see what drugs they can trace. Dan...
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