Author: Alyssa

  • Upcycled material plant (UBQ) may be coming to Massachusetts

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    Founded in 2012, the Israel-based climate tech startup UBQ Materials is converting household waste (including food scraps and hard-to-recycle materials) into UBQ, a sustainable substitute for fossil-based plastics. UBQ diverts waste headed for landfills and pulls out metal and glass, which can be repurposed with traditional recyclers. UBQ takes the remaining waste (food scraps, mixed…

  • Using mushrooms to clean up pollution

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    The BBC recently featured an article about Redhouse’s Biocycler program, which aims to reduce pollution and combat climate change using one of nature’s oldest: fungi. This is the emerging field called mycoremediation, and I am jazzed to learn more about it. An excerpt from the article reads: “As primary decomposers in the environment, many species…