Innovation is not always synonymous with environmental benefits. Just think of the creation of the automobile and the decidedly negative impact that it, along with other inventions, has had on the environment and on man. In recent years, however, we are witnessing a reversal of course. Probably to remedy the wrong choices of the past, […]
Charles Darwin, the greatest naturalist of all time, in his work “The Origin of Man and Sexual Selection” wrote about how animals are capable of feeling and how similar they are to man. “A large part of the most complex emotions – it reads – they are common to the highest animals and to us. […]
It was 1861 when Alexander Parkes, developing studies on cellulose nitrate, patented the first semi-synthetic plastic material, named parkesine. In 1907 the Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland obtained the first thermosetting resin of synthetic origin by condensation between phenol and formaldehyde, which he patented in 1910 under the name of bakelite. In 1912 a German chemist, […]
Man has been endowed with reason and the power to create, so that he can add his own to what has been given to him. Anton Chekhov Technological innovation and sustainability is not always a perfect combination. Today, technology seems to be the link between applied science and the dynamics of society that characterize our […]
Research into bioplastics, a degradable material that is a substitute for common plastic, is making great strides. News of inventions as bizarre as they are ingenious bounce here and there from all over the globe. This time we are going to talk about the latest discovery by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, in […]
Here it is summer with the warm sun and holidays that sweep away stress and bad moods. The beaches of Italy are crowded with “homegrown” and foreign tourists who enjoy the beauty of the blue sea. The important thing, however, is to keep our natural heritage clean and tidy. If, on the one hand, there […]
2018 is officially the year of the fight against plastic, the one that is flooding the world’s seas and, in some cases, killing the animal species that ingest it. Even the world’s most famous and oldest Grand Slam tennis tournament has banned single-use straws and plastic bags, as 400,000 were consumed last year alone. This […]
Even if you travel the whole earth, you will never learn as much as you learn from the sea. You will never find peace except on the sea, which for its part never has peace. Pär Fabian Lagerkvist, Nobel Prize in Literature 1951 Have you ever heard of fantastic plastic recycling projects, brilliant ideas often […]
#DrinkConsciously Plastic is light, inert, resistant, durable and economic.Its defects are the incomplete impermeability to gases and water vapor and the low resistance to abrasion but the worst defect is the it’s not biodegradable. A plastic bottle can remain in water, or on the ground, from a minimum of 100 years to a maximum of […]
“A better world is a dream that begins to come true” said Mahatma Gandhi. What if there is someone who works to makes better Universe too? There’s a company, a former start-up in northern Italy, which has developed a technology that help reducing the amount of space debris that is polluting the precious orbits around […]