Making Waste Useful: An Interview with LONO
LONO is an organization based in Ivory Coast providing sustainable and affordable products and services for recycling agricultural waste to generate profit for users. We have reached Louise Bijleveld, Co-founder of LONO to find out more about her company. Can you
Deal of the Week: Innovative Solutions to Food Waste
The growing scarcity of non-renewable resources has always been a matter of concern for the general public. However, the opposite—the over-abundance of renewable resources—is rarely an issue worthy of grievance. As production technology has rapidly evolved to minimize the scarcity
Green Earth Creations: Recycling Waste in Namibia and Supporting Country’s Economic Development
Green Earth Creations (GEC) CC, is a Namibian based recycling SME that was founded in 2016 with the goal to renew Namibia's recycling manufacture. The founders of Green EarthCreations are Liina Mutilifa (Engineer), Johanna Ithindi (Environmentalist), Palyomwene Mutilifa (Engineer), Tanson Elias
Oohos: Eliminating Plastic Bottles Once and for All
Technology evolves at an exponential rate--often at a pace too fast for us to comprehend until we are able to look back at it and reflect on it in the context of history. However, there is some technology that does
The Sustainable Development Goals and Fighting the Plastic Soup
The Impakter team would like to thank Jaime Jennings of Island Press for the photo contributions. Island Press will publish Plastic Soup: An Atlas of Ocean Pollution, authored by Michiel Roscam Abbing of The Plastic Soup Foundation (PSF) on April 4th. One of
IWD – Superfluere: Upcycled Products by Colleen Deetlefs
Colleen Deetlefs is one of the founders of IWD - Superfluere, a South African Company creating products from recycled materials. Coming from a clothing and footwear background - she had a clothing factory in the early nineties before becoming a
From Waste to Energy. How SEaB Energy Could Help the Transition Towards More Circular Cities
Waste managment and disposal are some of the most serious challenges in the path towards more sustainable cities. SEaB Energy believes waste has potential and should be used in a better way: its Anaerobic Digester - turning waste into biogas
A Phoenix from the Trashes
What Impact Does Voluntary Work Really Make? There appears to be few stories which can truly return a smile to one’s face nowadays, between the end of the world and our impenitent shaping of the world of the end, it is
Reaping What’s Sown: An Interview with Full Harvest
Recall the last time you went to the produce section of your local grocery store. You were probably greeted by fruits and vegetables that were appealing to the eye, completely (or at worst, mostly) blemish-free and without any obvious deformities.
Grubbly Farms: drop the insecticide and grab some grubs to go
While most farmers do what they can to keep insects away, relying on insecticide to protect their crops, Sean Warner and Patrick Pittaluga, founders of Grubbly Farms, welcome them as a means to effective alternative fertilizer and feed. We got