Technology improves living conditions and resource sustainability. Technologies that preserve dirty resources and create permanent solutions also offer optimism.
Pollution is rising daily. Natural disasters are growing more common, but many people are fighting to clean up contaminated seas, air, and green spaces. Projects and goods are inspired by technology's purpose of cleaning the world for future generations. Investigate eco-friendly technology.
Drinkable water is dwindling. Access to clean water is a global issue. Polluted water supplies spread hepatitis B, typhoid fever, and diarrhoea. The LifeStraw portable water purifier saves the day. The straw-shaped LifeStraw can clean 700 litres of water.
A year's water needs are covered by its usage period. The Danish Vestergaard Frandsen Group developed LifeStraw to kill 99.99% of water microorganisms. Filtering water at the moment of consumption is LifeStraw's major advantage.
Unfortunately, it cannot be used in saltwater or petroleum-contaminated water.
Florida's Saltwater Brewery made edible six-pack rings. Saltwater Brewery devised a remedy because six-pack rings were tossed into the sea and adhered to fish, damaging them. Its barley and wheat holders melt in 2 hours when watered. This product helps keep our dream of a sustainable world alive by nourishing living things and reducing pollution.
Millions of individuals eat out or bring restaurant meals home or to work every day. Providing plastic cutlery with these meals costs the globe. US consumers use 40,000 tonnes of single-use plastic dinnerware annually.
Imagine how large this is in India, with a considerably bigger population than normal. Indian business Bakeys makes “edible” spoons and forks from rice, wheat, and sorghum to overcome this problem. Discarded edible cutlery disintegrates.
Plastic island surface area in the oceans is increasing. A 3.4 million square metre island in the northern Pacific Ocean has 1.8 trillion plastic bits and weighs 7 million tonnes.
Austrian surfers Peter Ceglinski and Andrew Turton created Seabin, a simple yet effective solution. The trash can-like Seabin is cylindrical.
The engine in the section under the water pumps water in, creating a small vortex that suctions garbage, including oil, and cleans the water. Seabin, which can collect 1.5 kg of waste every day, can only intervene in surface waste, its main drawback.