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Filipino Engineer Uses Recycled Plastic Waste to Create Chairs for Schoolchildren
Filipino engineer Winchester Lemen is a mechanical engineer from the southern Philippines and runs Envirotech Waste Recycling to turn plastic garbage into chairs.
Envirotech Waste Recycling (EWRI) began making chairs when a visitor came to his plant to ask if he could make something from recycled plastic, and the engineer presented prototype chairs made of melted plastic from landfills. The plastic garbage is collected, shredded, cleaned, melted and molded. After that, they are assembled, sanded and painted.
Chinese Factory Uses 1 Billion Cockroaches to Eat 55 Tons of Food Waste a Day
A factory in eastern China is raising one billion cockroaches to help process tons of food waste every day.
The plant, located in Jinan, Shandong province receives 55 tons of kitchen waste a day — a minuscule fraction of the 1.3 billion tons wasted by the world each year.
Chinese Company Caught Spraying 3,000 Tons of Acidic Waste on Public Streets
A drug company in China was fined and forced to shut down after spraying over 3,000 tons of highly-concentrated liquid waste on the streets last week.
Bairui Biomedical Technology, located in Jiangsu Province, used a truck guised as a cleaning services vehicle in disposing the yellow green-colored waste it collected for more than a year.
Pakistani, Chinese Scientists Discover ‘Plastic-Eating’ Fungus in Islamabad Garbage Dump
A recent discovery by a team of scientists from China and Pakistan has the potential to revolutionize plastic waste management for good.
According to the Dawn, the researchers discovered that the fungus “Aspergillus tubingensis” feeds on plastic in a garbage dump in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad.
How South Korea Reduced Food Waste By 300 TONS a Day
South Korea has managed to reduce food waste in amounts other parts of the world can only imagine accomplishing for now.
In Seoul alone, the volume of waste decreased by 10%, or more than 300 tons a day, compared to four years ago.