upcycling
Brewery’s Beer-Making Powers Hospital
A brewery in Wisconsin is utilizing by-product from its brewing processes to power a local hospital.
VAST Composite Pavers Offer Numerous Environmental And Practical Benefits
With each successive innovation or improvement surpassing it’s non-sustainable, or pseudo-sustainable, predecessor, green building product solutions seem to be getting turned out every other minute these days. While the bleeding edge of many of these innovations and advancements offer real hope for the future of sustainable building design and construction, many of these products’ environmental benefits, and applications, are very narrow, undefined, and sometimes, even counterintuitive to their intended purpose. VAST has a new product that seems to address all these issues and more.
RTP’s “Tire Pole” Upcycles a Big Problem
Aside from hazardous waste, tires are probably the single largest disposal problem in the U.S. with over 300 million waste tires produced each year. The problem is what do you do with something that is essentially oil and rubber? Re-Tread Products Inc. has come up with a solution that not only solves this problem, but many others as well.
