Intern Write-Ups

Intern Write-Ups Eco Home 2021: Declining Bee Populations (full pdf) Digital Cleanse (full pdf) 2019: Dog Poo Composting Cole Gate Corrosion Prevention Repurposing Fog and Rainwater Aerated Composting System Composting Toilet Backyard Chicken Farming Eco Hub 2021:...

WASHINGTON POST – Contact lenses, corks and Christmas lights can all be recycled – here’s how

  CONTINUE READING…   Washington Post, Jun 24th, 2019  ...

MENTAL FLOSS – 6 Creative Recycling Efforts From Around the Globe

Mental Floss, April 22nd, 2019...

HUFFINGTON POST – Human Hair Extensions Are Being Matted Together To Clean Up Oil Spills

It’s an unlikely ending for something as glamorous as hair extensions or as mundane as the clippings from a hairdresser’s floor, but tonnes of human hair are being swept up and knitted together to soak up oil spills from our oceans. CONTINUE READING…  ...

CORE77 – Brilliant Materials Insight: Human Hair Can be Used to Clean Up Oil Spills

Here’s a perfect example of analyzing a material’s properties, then exploiting them to solve a problem. In 1989 an Alabama man named Phil McCrory was watching footage of the Exxon Valdez oil spill on television. The sad footage showed an otter drenched in...