AdaPETation talks to Costa Rican film-maker Mauricio Cortes and environmental activist and former diplomat to the United Nations, Carolina Sevilla about 5 Minute Beach Clean Ups and educating the next generation on their plastic consumption. Mauricio Cortes and Carolina Sevilla are on a mission to not only clean up the beaches of Costa Rica (and […]
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NREL is a national lab that is supported by the Department of Energy in the United States and my team works on lots of different things but I’m part of the group working on turning waste materials into more valuable compounds so whether that is energy, some parts of NREL are focused on renewable energy
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AdaPETation talks to Bohio Playa, a Colombian fashion brand that’s doing its bit to turn plastic bottles into ocean-friendly beachwear. When Daniel Velásquez took his first tentative steps on their journey into fashion in 2015 he had no idea how fulfilling the voyage would be. What first started out as an effort to find an
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AdaPETation talks to Mark Minneboo of Plastic Oceans International about a solutions revolution that’s filling him with optimism and hope for a circular future. It is estimated that more than 8 million tonnes of plastic end up in our oceans every year, that’s the equivalent of one garbage truck a second being tipped into the
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