🗑️ This Professor Has Built a Magic Bag for Collecting Waste
It Works Without Any Pumps or Electricity
Today’s eco snapshot👇🏽
This Professor Has Built a Magic Bag for Collecting Waste
Startup of the Week: Evolectric
5 Sustainable Brands I Recently Discovered
News That Lifted My Spirits This Week
3 Ways I Can Support Your Sustainability Journey
🗑️ This Professor Has Built a Magic Bag for Collecting Waste
Prof Muthukumaran is the Head of the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at NIT Trichy in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, India. He has developed an innovative waste collection system known as Muther's Magic Bag. The bag can remove floating trash from water bodies:
Unlike traditional cleaning methods, this bag does not need any electricity or pumps.
The bag sucks in floating waste when dipped into the water.
Once the trash enters the bag, it cannot escape during the subsequent dips.
When the bag is full, the collected waste is segregated and sent for recycling and sustainable disposal. And it is replaced with a new bag within seconds.
The bag can be handled by people, or it can be attached to boats for large-scale cleaning of rivers, lakes, and other water bodies.
The bag also captures hyacinths, which are known for choking water bodies.
A sustainable, economical, and magical solution to clean our water bodies!
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✨ Startup of the Week: Evolectric
This startup is converting polluting diesel trucks into electric ones to cut down the pollution.
Heavy…Millions of tonnes of goods are transported daily across cities, countries, and continents. Medium and heavy-duty trucks play a crucial role in this transportation. But these trucks run on diesel — a major contributor to air pollution and the climate crisis.
New problems…One solution is to replace these trucks with electric ones. But this would result in old trucks being sent to scrapyards or exported to other countries — leaving the pollution problem unresolved.
Evolectric has found a unique solution. It converts the existing trucks into electric ones. Check out the short video below:
🔽 This helps cut down on pollution.
🔽 Saves the manufacturing of a new truck.
🔽 Brings down fuel costs for fleet owners.
It also helps them prepare for the inevitable electric future.
✅ 5 Sustainable Brands I Recently Discovered
Hubcycled: A platform that transforms one factory’s waste stream into another factory’s raw material.
Tingit: Helping people get their clothes, shoes, and bags repaired in a few clicks.
Azure Printed Homes: Solving the plastic and housing crisis together using 3D printed houses.
Dirty Labs: Making non-toxic, readily biodegradable cleaning formulas.
NaturBeads: Makes biodegradable cellulose microspheres to replace microplastics in cosmetics, paints & detergents.
😹 News That Lifted My Spirits This Week
🌱 Seed Success: The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a remote Norwegian facility safeguarding crop diversity, just expanded its collection with over 14,000 new climate-hardy samples. This latest addition includes unique specimens like Malawi's fertilizing velvet beans and drought-resistant legumes, bolstering the vault's mission to preserve genetic diversity for future agricultural challenges.
💧 H2-Whoa!: Researchers from the University of South Australia and China have made a breakthrough in making desalination more accessible and cost-effective. By incorporating common clay minerals into a solar-powered desalination process, they've discovered a way to speed up seawater evaporation, potentially providing clean drinking water to billions of people worldwide.
🌍 Cash for Conservation: In a landmark agreement at COP16 on Biodiversity in Rome, over 140 countries committed to an ambitious plan to protect nature. The deal aims to mobilize $200 billion annually by 2030 for biodiversity conservation, with $20 billion pledged by 2025 and $30 billion by 2030 specifically to support developing nations' conservation efforts. This represents a crucial breakthrough after previous negotiations stalled in Cali, Colombia.
💁🏼 3 Ways I Can Support Your Sustainability Journey
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