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Global warming could be in reverse by 2050 if we take action now – Chad Frischmann 07 August 2018 Project Drawdown's research director says the paradigm around global warming needs to change into one of possibility and opportunity. Image credit - Pxhere, licensed under CC0 We could get to the stage where atmospheric greenhouse gases are in decline – a point known as drawdown – and begin to reverse global warming before 2050, but it will require us adopting solutions at an aggressive rate, according to Chad Frischmann, vice-president and research director of Project Drawdown. Project Drawdown is a worldwide research and communications initiative with a plan to reverse global warming based on 100 existing and emerging solutions. An independent European arm, Drawdown Europe, has now been launched to galvanise the continent into action. What impact would it have if your 100 solutions to reverse global warming were adopted? ‘These existing technologies, when adopted as a set of...

This Park Is Made Of Recycled Litter From A River by  TAYLOR MEAD     JUL 20, 2018 INSTAGRAM | @RECYCLEDPARK Here's a not so fun fact for you: " more than 60% of water pollution comes from things like trash and litter, excess fertilizer, and pet waste ," making clean water supplies around the world harder and harder to find. One city in the Netherlands though, is helping in (literally) the neatest way. Rotterdam's  Recycled Park  on the New Meuse river is working to prevent plastic litter from entering the North Sea and sustain aquatic life in the process. Yes, it's as ingenious as it sounds, believe me. Seating Area for Park-Goers    DESIGNBOOM To the rest of the world, please take notes! The  Recycled Park 's passive litter traps collect the river's garbage, so it can be retrieved, sorted, and then used to create floating park blocks that "improve the ecosystem and increase awareness of plastic pollution." Passive Litter Trap   ...

Is Your Recycling is Getting Recycled? By    Livia Albeck-Ripka May 29, 2018 Plastics and papers from dozens of American cities and towns are being dumped in landfills after China stopped recycling most “foreign garbage.”                         Bales of recyclable waste in Seattle. American waste managers are struggling to find plants to process their recyclables. Credit                        Wiqan Ang for The New York Times Oregon is serious about recycling. Its residents are accustomed to dutifully separating milk cartons, yogurt containers, cereal boxes and kombucha bottles from their trash to divert them from the landfill. But this year, because of a far-reaching rule change in China, some of the recyclables are ending up in the local dump anyway. In recent months, in fact, thousands of tons of material left curbside for recycling in doz...