Someone playing Minecraft with keepinventory on and dying so they can get home quickly has such like, Powerful, Careless Immortal energy.
[ID: The “its my sleepover and i get to choose the movie” link meme, which has been edited to have link holding a grass block above his head and saying, “its my minecraft and I get to choose the Die” End ID]
their name is bucket i think; a sorta-kinda skeleton version of drowned? their ribcage and skull are waterlogged and they have a lil salmon friend whom i just now decided is named salm (pronounced sam)
Authored by Kenny Walter, Digital Reporter, R&D Magazine
Thanks to 3D printing, customers across the country can now order a customized loafer, sneaker or sandal designed specifically to fit their exact foot— and receive it in less than 24 hours.
Feetz, a San Diego-based company founded by Lucy and Nigel Beard, creates a shoe that is almost entirely printed, with approximately 90 percent of each shoe created with a 3D printer. The only part of the shoe that is not made from the 3D printer is the fabric lining, which is produced using traditional methods because 3D printers are currently unable to print fabrics.
Plastics are among the most successful materials of modern times. However, they also create a huge waste problem. Scientists from the University of Groningen (The Netherlands) and the East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST) in Shanghai produced different polymers from lipoic acid, a natural molecule. These polymers are easily depolymerized under mild conditions. Some 87 percent of the monomers can be recovered in their pure form and re-used to make new polymers of virgin quality. The process is described in an article that was published in the journal Matter on 4 February.
A problem with recycling plastics is that it usually results in a lower-quality product. The best results are obtained by chemical recycling, in which the polymers are broken down into monomers. However, this depolymerization is often very difficult to achieve. At the Feringa Nobel Prize Scientist Joint Research Center, a collaboration between the University of Groningen and ECUST, scientists developed a polymer that can be created and fully depolymerized under mild conditions.
The all-white clothes range for Wimbledon, designed by Stella McCartney, is also going green by using recycled materials.
In this new range of tennis-wear Adidas and McCartney are taking steps towards sustainability by creating the clothes out of recycled polyester, a synthetic fibre created using waste materials like plastic bottles and previously used clothing items that have been cleaned and processed again to turn them into new fibres ready for a new purpose.
As well as using recycled polyester, the collection is also made by using parley ocean plastic, which is a material developed from upcycled plastic waste which was picked up and hindered from entering the oceans at beaches and coastal areas before being turned into yarn, according to a press release.
Not only is the clothes made from recycled materials, with a better environmental footprint, but the technology used to create the range – dope dye technology – is also greening the line. The method wastes less water by incorporating colour directly into the material mix at the beginning stage in the production process.
‘Therefore, when the fibre is formed, it is already the desired colour and as a result, reduces wastewater by at least 10 litres per garment,’ the release stated.
The range, sold by Adidas, is available to purchase online now and the range can be seen on Wimbledon players such as Angelique Kerber, Caroline Wozniacki and Alexander Zverev.
Despite their ubiquity in consumer electronics, rare-earth metals are, as their name suggests, hard to come by. Mining and purifying them is an expensive, labor-intensive and ecologically devastating process. Starting with the two elements as a mixed powder, a metal-binding molecule known as a…
Where do electronics go when they die? Most devices are laid to eternal rest in landfills. But what if they just dissolved away, or broke down to their molecular components so that the material could be recycled?
University of Illinois researchers have developed heat-triggered self-destructing electronic devices, a step toward greatly reducing electronic waste and boosting sustainability in device manufacturing. They also developed a radio-controlled trigger that could remotely activate self-destruction on demand.
The researchers, led by aerospace engineering professor Scott R. White, published their work in the journal Advanced Materials.
“We have demonstrated electronics that are there when you need them and gone when you don’t need them anymore,” White said. “This is a way of creating sustainability in the materials that are used in modern-day electronics. This was our first attempt to use an environmental stimulus to trigger destruction.”
Reports suggest that the UK could copy Norway and adopt a deposit-based system for recycling bottles, in an effort to reduce the amount of plastic waste.
In Norway, consumers pay a deposit on every bottle they buy (from 10p-25p), before putting it into a deposit return machine, which reads the barcode and produces a coupon for the deposit. It is viewed as one of the most successful recycling methods.
Kjell Olav Maldum, chief executive of Infinitum, which runs the Norway scheme, said, ‘There are other recycling schemes, but we believe ours is the most cost-efficient. We think it could be copied in the UK, or anywhere.
‘Our principle is that if drinks firms can get bottles to shops to sell their products, they can also collect those same bottles.’
Back in December 2017, the UK government’s Environmental Audit Committee outlined the benefits of a deposit scheme. ‘Around 700,000 plastic bottles are littered in the UK every day,’ said Mary Creagh MP, chair of the committee. ‘The introduction of a small charge to encourage the return of plastic bottles will result in less littering, more recycling and reduction in the impact of plastic packaging on our natural environment.’
Graphene growth gets greener It is not often that recycled materials perform better than new ones, but that is the case with a newly developed method for growing graphene that uses a copper catalyst. When the copper film of the catalyst is reused to grow more graphene the properties of the…
In a recent report, scientists from the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) analysed how critical raw materials (CRM) are currently used in the EU and whether their use is in line with the principles of the circular economy.
The result is a data heavy report detailing reuse for work in extractive waste, landfills, electric and electronic equipment, batteries, automotive, renewable energy, defence as well as chemicals and fertilisers. It also references a number of good practices in each sector, such as in mining: ‘Building on the principle that all valuable metals contained in the ore should be recovered rather than ending up in e.g. the tailings dam, the BRAVO (Bauxite Residue and Aluminium Valorisation Operations) project in Ireland is targeted to the recovery of CRMs from bauxite residues (red mud). Using red mud as a source of critical raw materials (e.g. gallium, titanium, selenium, germanium, dysprosium and cerium) simultaneously brings environmental benefits due to the additional treatment of the red mud itself, which potentially causes environmental damage due to its alkaline content.’
These graphs taken from the report show some key figures on recycling CRMs in the EU.
However, Figure 8 does not yet show the level of circularity of CRMs in the EU-28. For materials used predominantly in the EEE sectors (i.e., gallium, germanium, indium, and dysprosium, provides an indication of the amounts of secondary raw materials functionally recycled to contribute to EU demand in 2012 (see purple coloured Sankey arrow in the Figure).
Video: Is Plastic Sustainable? - By The British Plastics Federation
By Shardell Joseph
The British Plastics Federation (BPF) has released two videos to to help tackle some of the public misunderstandings around plastic, addressing its role in society and the best ways to prevent plastic waste.
The video’s were released after an international debate on plastic waste at the World Economic Forum last week, in support of the BPF’s recent document Understanding the Debate about Plastic, which outlines why plastic is important for modern life and the evidence on effective ways to reduce waste.
Video: Improving Plastic Recycling in the UK - By The British Plastics Federation
YouGov findings recently revealed over two-thirds of the public believe that plastic packaging is the most damaging material for producing carbon emissions during its lifecycle. Research into the environmental impact of plastic, however, disproved this, and indicated that that replacing plastic with other materials is not necessarily better for the environment. Academics have also cautioned against swapping plastic for other materials due to the unforeseen negative consequences it may have for the planet.
‘We hope that through widely sharing content such as these videos, we can help clear up public misunderstanding about plastic,’ said British Plastics Federation Director General, Philip Law. ‘The recent YouGov poll results show the issue clearly - most do not appreciate plastic’s role in helping us reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
‘Policymakers and the media need to take note. By turning away from plastics we may do a lot more harm to our environment than good. We must ensure we work together to make the best choices for our planet, and plastic has an important role to play in fighting climate change.’
A new tool for monitoring how much of recycled polymers get used in new products has been launched in the UK.
The recycling tool, called MOnitoring Recyclates for Europe (MORE), aims to track how much of recycled polymers become new products, as well as making a record of what the industry is doing to reach the 10 million tonnes of recycled polymers being used every year between 2025-2030 target set by the European Union (EU). This monitoring tool is now available for UK plastic converting companies.
By using MORE, UK companies can record and submit information on to what extent recycled polymers have been used in their new products.
On Monday 11 November, British Plastics Federation Director General, Philip Law, and European Plastics Converters Managing Director, Alexandre Dangis, signed a contract in London, making the UK – officially – the 13th country in the EU to supply the industry with the platform.
‘The plastics industry in the UK has been working to integrate more recycled content into its products and we are very happy to be making MORE available within the UK. Participation in the platform is key to its success and we urge companies to help us develop this valuable data so we can understand and communicate the UK’s progress,’ Law said.
Today it’s “Siivouspäivä” (”Cleaning day”)! The concept of Siivouspäivä started from Helsinki, but nowadays it’s held in many other Finnish towns as well. During this time the whole town transforms into a huge flea market as people sell their things they don’t need anymore. The aim of this day is to promote recycling and sustainability and to create a lively and responsible city culture.
The bag acquired straps and closures. It’s now my favourite bag to use. The nice thing about making is you can just keep working on an item until you’re happy with it.
More paper recycling. I like to use old paper with some kind of a history. The painted one was done with flour and water. The other I tried with just water but ended up painting it with diluted PVA glue to give it more structural integrity.
How to make your own decorative tape and stickers from museum tickets and e-commerce shipping labels
Cleaning up my office/studio recently, I found the ticket stubs from my last visit to the Cooper-Hewitt design museum in New York. I remembered I had kept them to use the ticket info to access the exhibit info I saved using the museum’s fancy new multimedia magic wands.
Fashion department store Marks & Spencer launched its project called Shwopping, a portmanteau of shopping and swapping, in an effort to recycle clothing and decrease waste. The project, which they refer to as a revolution, seeks to draw attention to the amount of clothing that’s discarded every day in the UK and make a conscious effort to reverse this wasteful habit. The cause claims that approximately 10,000 articles of clothing go to landfills every five minutes.
