Princess Kate She tackles things in a recycled outfit Princess Kate chose a fuchsia coat for her charity work. © imago/PA Images Princess Kate is known for recycling her clothes a lot. She dug an older coat out of the closet for a trip. Recycling Queen Princess Kate (41) has once again dug an old outfit out of the closet. The 41-year-old visited a charity in Windsor with her husband Prince William (40). For her performance, Kate chose a fuchsia...
In Samuel Schabel's laboratory at the Technical University of Darmstadt, an apparatus that looks like a food processor often rattles. In the bowl of the silver-colored device, however, a stirring rod does not whisk together flour, eggs and milk, but water and scraps of paper, cardboard or cardboard. "Paper is a great material and the basic substance cellulose is an important renewable resource," enthuses Schabel. Unlike most plastics, it is biodegradable and easy to recycle. "You just throw it in...
Status: 01/25/2023 08:25 a.m Recycling protects the environment and resources. But with the extremely increased energy costs, it is often hardly worth it. And even the government's energy price cap cannot cushion everything. A site visit. There is a mountain of colorful aluminum bottle caps on the company yard of the recycling company TKM in Landau. He is more than two meters high. "A truck has just unloaded it here. The crown caps are needed for the fermentation of champagne....
A tomb created for the film John Wickan ancient column from the last Asterixa sofa from the series In therapy… Welcome to The Cinema Ressourceriewhich recovers old film sets!“A built set represents 15 tonnes of waste for each film”Karine d'Orlan declares having co-created this place for ecological reasons: “It is estimated that a constructed set represents approximately 15 tonnes of waste, she specifies. A 2020 study also indicates that the cinema generates 1.7 million tonnes of CO² and that the...
We know that fast fashion is probably the worst thing for the environment. Consumption of water, energy and waste to no longer knowing what to do with it. So, vintage, second-hand, recycling and even upcycling have appeared to try to lower the environmental bill of clothing.If the concept works rather well for all comers, tops, bottoms, coats… What about underwear. And if bras and panties are also potentially salvageable, are women ready to entrust their intimacy to second-hand pieces? It...
According to an evaluation, Nuremberg is the "most recycling paper-friendly city" in Germany. Federal Environment Minister Steffi Lemke (Greens) awarded the city the "Paper Atlas" award in Berlin on Tuesday, as announced by the Pro Recycling Paper initiative. According to the organizers, Bavaria's second-biggest city achieved the nation's highest overall score for the use of recycled paper in public facilities. According to this, 100 percent of the paper used by the Nuremberg city administration in 2021 was recycled paper with...
They have a clean design and do not require an engineering degree to be assembled or disassembled. But these shelves manufactured in the Toulouse conurbation have the particular advantage of being designed from 100% waste from the construction industry. The idea germinated a few years ago in the minds of four young architects from the Pink City, exasperated to see countless tons of unused materials going to the dumpster.“We said to ourselves that we had to reuse them. We have...
Since last Thursday, five pumpers have been reasoning around the Nakache outdoor swimming pool in Toulouse, one of the largest outdoor pools in Europe with its 150 meters long and 50 wide. Every day, tank trucks and vans equipped with tanks take turns around the site built in 1931 and which this summer welcomed no less than 127,000 visitors.But unlike previous seasons, the emptying of the 6,100 m3 of water will not end up in the wastewater network. This year,...
At the moment, the world is not only concerned with the corona virus, another virus is also spreading faster and faster: the monkeypox virus. The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the monkeypox outbreak an international emergency. the American government recently declared a national health emergency - and in Germany there are more and more people who are infected with the virus. For August 11th counted the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) 3,063 cases. Allegations and conspiracy myths that were already...
There are pants made from old sweaters, bags made from old sails, or jewelry adorned with scraps of fabric. Throughout the weekend, Hangar 32, on the island of Nantes, is home to a funny fashion boutique as part of the first edition of the Chtiiing festival. Indeed, a large part of what is sold here has been made possible thanks to recycled materials. Since last year, these designers from the Pays-de-la-Loire who are adept at upcycling, some thirty gathered in...