• Why a sustainable future may depend on humans returning to the moon

    Why a sustainable future may depend on humans returning to the moon

    Jul 19, 2019 11:26 PM EST

    ... space. But de Weck said luckily some of the biggest advances in aerospace have involved sustainability through life-support systems. “The International Space Station is recycling a lot. They're recycling the drinking water, the air, and even the urine. It's like over 90 percent of the urine that ...

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    India Dispatch: Thriving Development Spawns Water, Resource Worries

    Dec 29, 2010 06:10 PM EST

    ... a trickle so anemic that residents use electric pumps to suck it into holding tanks and later to rooftop reservoirs. Sharma says the city's water woes could be largely eased by simple practices like rainwater collection systems and recycling. Instead, fresh water is currently piped in from dams more ...

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    Washington Inmates Help Protect Endangered Frog, Prison Budget

    Dec 03, 2010 05:00 AM EST

    ... you know, lawn had been ripped up and there was this fabulous organic garden. That turned into composting. We then started worm composting. We started recycling. We started water catchment basins. JULE GILFILLAN: Before long, Cedar Creek's inmates were scarping their trays instead of washing food waste down the ...

  • Restaurants in New Orleans are recycling oyster shells to save precious coastline

    Restaurants in New Orleans are recycling oyster shells to save precious coastline

    Jun 23, 2023 05:56 PM EST

    ... program, which takes those in the food industry, so-called “culinary ambassadors,” through the entire journey of an oyster from being dredged out of the water to being charbroiled, to recycling its shell back into the same water. It’s a growing effort to connect restaurant professionals with the people ...

  • Arid Middle East faces political battles over water shortfalls

    Arid Middle East faces political battles over water shortfalls

    Dec 31, 2018 11:35 PM EST

    ... grew here before. Fred de Sam Lazaro: The farm is possible because, over the last two decades, Israel has become a world leader in conserving, recycling and even producing water in one of the driest places on Earth. It wasn't like that 40 years ago, when the farm was ...

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    Can Seawater Solve Our Water Woes?

    Aug 08, 2011 04:24 PM EST

    ... desalinization. Another example is Singapore. They are just finishing their second desalination plant. They are doing it because they are already recycling all their waste water and in Singapore the problem is not that there is not water, the problem is they are getting 50 percent of their water from ...

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    Trying to Strike a Chord with Fans, One Recycling Bin at a Time

    May 11, 2010 08:26 PM EST

    ... that venues provide recycling receptacles. As more well-known bands demand eco-friendly venues, it relieves some of the pressure for other artists to request water canteens over water bottles and on-site recycling receptacles. After seven years on the road, Stokes says being a part of a community of ...

  • WATCH: Vice President Harris discusses tackling climate change

    WATCH: Vice President Harris discusses tackling climate change

    Oct 18, 2021 03:59 PM EST

    ... billion for Western water projects. Some of the ways the plan would combat the effects of drought include investments in desalination technology that makes sea water usable, fortifying rural water infrastructure and building more wastewater recycling technology to help stretch existing supplies. WATCH: Can urban reforestation help lower rising temperatures ...

  • What if we could put our plastic trash to good use?

    What if we could put our plastic trash to good use?

    Sep 25, 2018 09:42 PM EST

    ... replace thin layers of non-recyclable plastics in products -- like a plastic coating on an orange juice label -- that would normally create impurities that make recycling more difficult. It is water soluble and can dissolve into harmless organic components. Hydropol can also be recycled with paper and plastic because of ...

  • How Ben & Jerry’s is recycling food waste into energy

    How Ben & Jerry’s is recycling food waste into energy

    Jul 28, 2025 10:40 PM EST

    Eric Roy: The goal is to try to produce useful fertilizers and also inform best practices for how to use it, because if nutrients aren't used properly, they can run off to the water and cause environmental problems. William Brangham: In fact, helping the environment is a key reason ...