Eight alternatives: what you can do with a Christmas tree to avoid throwing it away

After the Christmas and New Year holidays, you always have to think about where to put the festive tree. And the main thing is not just to throw it away, but to give the forest beauty a second life or put it to good use. Money Talks News writes about this. For many years people...

Every cloud has a silver lining: Los Angeles-based company creates building blocks from plastic waste

Imagine taking a mountain of rubbish and a pile of earth-polluting unusable plastic waste and turning it into something useful. Plastic pollution is a growing and increasingly serious problem. Experts estimate that by 2040 up to 710 million tons of hard plastic…

Research breakthrough: scientists find plastic recycling key in pile of rotten leaves

Researchers at French industrial development company Carbios have created a bacterial enzyme capable of dissolving plastic bottles within hours, the BBC reported. For the first time, this enzyme in its natural form was discovered in a pile of rotten leaves back in 2012, on its basis, scientists ...

In the United States create the first company in the world to turn human bodies into compost

US firm Olson Kundig Architects has unveiled a plan to build a cadaver recycling facility in Seattle, where human bodies will be composted and turned into soil. Writes about this DeZeen. A Seattle studio designed an 18 square foot (500 square meters) center for ...

A man accidentally threw away $ 23 000: the story of their searches is worthy of an adaptation

Workers on the sorting line at the Recology recycling plant in Humboldt County are used to the odd things customers throw away. But they will remember this case for a long time. On Friday, August 3, an attentive employee discovered a shoebox full of cash dollars. In it ...

10 stores in the US, where you can donate your old clothes and equipment, and they’ll pay you for it

There are stores that really want you to bring them your old items - so much so that they are willing to pay for your old clothes, electronics and other used items. Recycling often requires a little extra work, reminds Money Talks News. But it does not mean,…

Chiefs in New York will not be allowed to disturb employees after hours

New York City wants to pass a law that will prohibit companies from forcing employees to answer work letters outside the office. The authors of the initiative are confident that New Yorkers, who have been holding the palm in terms of the length of the work week, are not becoming workaholics of their own free will. Riad to work ...

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