muck, waste, trash, emissions…………………. to Money?
Wow, One company’s muck is another company’s raw material?….Close-the-Loop > O
If you haven’t already >> Future Proof Your Products!
https://www.ubqmaterials.com/marketing/hero-product-challenge/
April 2nd, 2026 — Today, UBQ Materials announced the UBQ Hero Product Challenge, a new initiative inviting global brands to reimagine their most iconic products using UBQ™—the world’s first alternative to oil‑based plastic made entirely from household waste, including all organics.
BEAT the staggering
price fluctuations
of fossil fuel-plastics and
Future Proof Your Products!
Reman Day, 23 April, 2026 is Global Reman Day!!!!!!
Global Reman Day is a day to advance the “remanufacturing industry” through remanufacture companies’-hosted events and workforce development initiatives.
The Value of Waste is the motivator to clean our lives and our climate!
Even a gold mine does not present itself so you can just pick it up.
We have a treasure trove on our hands that is being ignored.
OK, it is not made of gold, but it ALL has Value! Are you ignoring it?
Watch Plastic Stuff disappear in time-lapse?
Have You Seen Plastic Stuff Decompose?
Feature Image: from the company https://tipa-corp.com/
Continue reading “What Plastics Technology? We Want it Naturally Compostable!”
Mark your calendars!
Reman day is Thursday, 24 April, 2025
Just after Earth Day Tuesday, 22 April, 2025
Dear ReManufacturers!
Reman Day promotes the important part your company plays in
Closing-the-Loop of Circular Industry.
It’s time to promote your processes and encourage more people to
get involved in the Re-manufacturing Industry.
WasteRush is Now!
… Online Platforms where you can:
>>>> SELL what you used to throw away
>>>> BUY materials for Feedstocks, etc.
This is my dream come true!
Now the WasteRush really starts to surge!!!!! (better than GoldRush)
GREEN Survival Tools with suggestions for FOOD, DRINKING WATER, TOILETS, LIGHT and more…….. Get ready for a season of more hurricanes……
These shocking rainy torrents this summer are among our most frightening foes in a warming world, and should be among our top motivations to change course.
REMAN DAY 11 April, 2024
“Close-the-Loop”
Winners:
For Their Products
the Loop has been Closed !
When someone is ready to
throw away your product,
do you know what they should do with it,
to retain its next life resources/usefulness?
Here are 10 examples:
Broken Flat Window Glass to collect and recycle.
Special collecting issues. Every little bit counts !
Glass can be Recycled endlessly and Other Uses!
Ukraine, manmade or Natural Disasters,
use GREEN Recovery Methods !
Ukraine is progressing in the Circular Economy movement!
Sustainability, Closing-the-loop
>> So many are already working on the New Green Ukraine!
…Remember-bottom is a list of other posts on WASTE WEALTH
Continue reading “GREEN Clean Up – Broken Flat Window Glass”
The Ukraine has been totally disrupted and has this powerful opportunity to show the world that “GREEN WORKS”.
Ukraine, manmade or Natural Disasters, use GREEN recovery !!!
Powerful Opportunity for us all!
With a
“Symbol of Hope”
from Nature….
Ukraine is already involved in the GREEN movement !
>> So important to work on GREEN Recovery, cleaning up after each Catastrophe.
(The first post is here: GREEN Tools To Recover From Disasters! The second post with reminders for the Ukraine is HERE. THIS POST is the last in this series and offers more reminders.
Feature Image above: “Valley” by https://sassmannshausen.net/
Continue reading “REBUILD GREEN! – GREEN Tools to Recover!”
Ellen MacArthur Foundation – wants to put the last part of “Nature’s Life Cycle” back into industry. The part that we humans have to re-evaluate. Save our resources!
A LITTLE OVER A MONTH TO PLAN!
In this post:
Remanufacturing is getting more organized
What is Global Reman Day?
There is a lot to do in Remanufacturing!
…Remember the list at the bottom, other Reman posts
above image: remancouncil.org
Continue reading “Reman Day — 14 April, 2022”
In this post:
The Video – Re-thinking Progress
Get inspired by existing sustainable businesses
…a list at the bottom of other posts about EMF
>>In Nature, After Use:Dead tissues break down and are converted into simple organic forms;food for new life.
>>In Industry, After Use: Break-it-up, dismantle it, separate materials, disassemble it, take it apart into its various materialsand ready them as new feed-stocks for new production.
“Earth knows no desolation. …She smells regeneration
in the moist breath of decay.”
– George Meredith
In this post:
Without decay, we would overflow with plant & animal “remains”
Decomposition is the first stage = recycling
Recycling business is beginning to turn profitable
There really is an urgent need to accelerate recycling.
…Remember, a list at the bottom of other posts about Waste.
an Update !
More online tools where you can sell your production waste.
Landfills, must be shrinking !?!
Wow, Your Company’s Muck Is Their Company’s Raw Material?
In this post:
the first two
now there are more online tools
Regional – Waste Exchanges
…Remember, a list at the bottom of posts aboutWaste
above image: Plastic Collage, Precious Plastic: A Global Community of Plastic Upcycling Entrepreneurs
Continue reading “Grants for Waste Projects – Want To Look for Money?”
Cigarette Butts: This is How we can Recycle them? 66
Cigarette Butts: Pick them Up Off The Street! 51
In this post:
The most littered PLASTIC item
CODE Effort Pvt. Ltd. on facebook,
Their recycling process,
How they started their marketing,
Is this a project that you would like to do?
…Remember a list at the bottom of other posts about using Waste
Breaking News ! >> Looking for Vetiver Biomass suppliers !
Heal the Scars,
Put back BioDiversity.
Capture and pull down CO2.
Rid the land and water of contaminants.
Slow down water velocity.
Attract native species to return and Heal.
Not invasive
Strong Organic Stablization of land
Much Cheaper than ridged contruction!
>>>>>All with the Vetiver Grass System
In this post:
Vetiver Grass can do it ALL! Vetiver >> Bio-remediation
an illustrative Story,
Let’s “Heal the Scars”– Reclaim the land,
Positive Healing Results from Planting Vetiver,
Using Vetiver to restore, heal dry lands, deserts in Vietnam
A unique Bioengineering Tool
Where can you find Vetiver- Chrysopogon zizanioides?
above image: Abandoned Illegal Gold Mine destruction in the Amazon
Continue reading “Vetiver System Proven I say, “Heal the Land with Vetiver””
= recycling to Capture Critical Minerals & Rare Elements
The future must be Urban Mining = Total Materials Recycling / Recovery.
From Waste we find our Guaranty of Future Resources!!!!!
Clean Energy Demand for Critical Minerals is skyrocketing!
Urban Mining = Recycling ALL Reusable Materials in ALL Communities
Huge amounts of Critical Minerals in our Waste!
Who is collecting and recycling e-waste? Another post about these companies, HERE!
Continue reading “Urban Mining ! – More important and Beneficial than ever”
The more companies that search for their business solutions in Nature, the closer we will all get to harmony with planet Earth!
Optical Colors
In this post:
Biomimicry is the practice of copying Nature
Ray of Hope Prize Program Finalist – cyprismaterials.com –
Congratulations to the Ray of Hope Prize 2020 Winner ECOncrete!
Look at these ideas! From Alexandre Magnin
…Remember at the bottom a list of other posts about Nature
above image: Rachel Ford James, from flicker
Continue reading “Time to AskNature.org – Ray of Hope* Finalist”
above table from: Leather-like material biofabrication using fungi
Continue reading “Mycelium is IN Textile/Fashion – 2020 NOW!” Vote your buy <<>> Your Buy is your Vote! >>eco Single-Use!
above image: from the FUNGAR project, at the end of this post
Continue reading “Mycelium in Construction? A New Frontier in Progress!”
Eco-EQUIPMENT for Printing & Packaging have various life cycles that need to be dealt with and there are lots of companies working on closing-the-loop.
In this post:
Green Engineering Innovations
Waste in the Printing and Packaging Industry – The Machines
Used Cartridges, ink&toner – the Big picture
…at the bottom, other posts – First Industry that can go totally GREEN
The Mycelium Industry is growing…. look in your own region!
Or ask me to.
Update….see course in September 2023!
the above photo: Haeckels – For outer packaging of our glass containers in both retail and during transit, mushroom derived mycelium was adopted. An incredibly versatile, all-natural & 100% bio-degradable material that is mouldable to any silhouette and not only houses seeds of wild flora in its rigid walls, but fertilises them when the outer packaging is discarded after use; a more eco-conscious unboxing experience.
Continue reading “Mycelium Industry – Where to Learn in the World?”
In this post:
Pioneers in Eco-Friendly Printing- Print The Change eG,
Are you printing on plastic?
Plastics on the market
…at the bottom – other posts on the Printing & Packaging Industry
Photo above: MAIRA KONDO, designer
Continue reading “eco-Plastic – GREEN Plastics are on the Market, NOW!”
FULL of ideas…………
In this post:
Are you printing on Textile?
…Remember, at the bottom more posts about the Printing & Packaging Industry
In this post:
Passionate Pioneers in Eco-Friendly Printing- Print The Change eG,
Are you printing on boxes? …or other types of packaging?,
…a list at the bottom of other posts about the Printing & Packaging Industry
image above: from Vericool Thermal Packaging – see below*
Continue reading “eco-Packaging – What to look for in a Green Supplier”