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At Disney World, the Magic Kingdom uses a system of pneumatic tubes to keep trash out of sight for park visitors. While this was supposed to be the future of waste disposal, only one other place in the US uses something like it on a similar scale: Roosevelt Island in New York City.

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Millions of tons of sargassum wash up on beaches across North America every year. Exposure can lead to breathing problems, and it costs millions to clean it up.

Tech Insider : Environment
  • Innovators around the world are finding creative ways to recycle things we throw away.
  • Human hair can soak up oil spills, while used coffee grounds can be made into sunglasses frames.
  • We found out how companies are repurposing old chopsticks, flip
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  • A company is shredding, melting, and molding a secret mixture of hard-to-recycle plastics to make solid bricks and beams.
  • The building materials are cheaper and faster to assemble than most traditional ones.
  • The system has helped in
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  • We make over 1 billion pairs of jeans every year, and nearly all of them end up in landfills. 
  • One company in Pakistan is recycling old denim into new pants using laser technology and recycled dye.
  • The country is the No.
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  • Four friends spent more than a decade designing a machine that recycles plastic waste.
  • The Polyfloss machine spins plastic into thin fibers that can be used for insulation. 
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