Fertilize the Land with Your Waste

Quite literally, an architect and professor in Stockholm Anders Wilhelmson has introduced the mobile disposable toilet in a bag. The creatively named Peepoo is a disposable bag that can be used to collect faeces and urine which is then broken down by urea crystals – rendering waste into fertilizer. Potentially useful in toilet-deficient neighbourhoods, I [...]

Imperial College Unveils Degradable Plastic

There are probably a few dozen plastic-like replacements on the market you may have heard of. Now we can add Imperial College’s degradable sugar polymer based-on lignocellulosic biomass. This guilt-free plastic, unlike other solutions on the market is not based upon corn or sugar beet but on the sugars produced from the breakdown of lignocellulosic [...]

Printer: Without Ink, Toner or Paper

As the awkward language suggests, this may be a Google Translation of the original Japanese site. Or I could be completely wrong and they just had a lousy translator. Anyway, this is the PrePeat RP-3100, a printer by the Japanese company Sanwa Newtech Co. Ltd. Sanwa claims this printer is able to print up to [...]