One of the largest sources of industrial waste Coal ash is one of the most-generated forms of industrial waste in the country.
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Pollution to groundwater from industrial waste can also harm health.
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One would outlaw all tailings dams for mining and industrial waste.
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It made up 90% of industrial waste dumped in the area.
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Some companies inject industrial waste into some caverns, or chemicals or gas.
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He promised $3bn and new plants to treat sewage and industrial waste.
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Another global problem is the growing amount of domestic and industrial waste.
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Trump's budget slashes funding for industrial waste cleanup through the Superfund program.
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Their source: stone waste mined from construction sites and other industrial waste dumps.
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The company serves several companies in the area, including Braskem, processing industrial waste.
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In 1952, industrial waste in Ohio's Cuyahoga River famously caught fire near Cleveland.
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Industrial waste streams into increasingly dry rivers and wetlands, even in residential areas.
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Industrial waste covers homes, schools, and vehicles in a shroud of contaminated dust.
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The water, which can contain oil residues and heavy metals, is considered industrial waste.
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Industrial waste, including highly toxic PCBs, led to fish kills in the Hudson River.
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The frogs are extremely sensitive to human and industrial waste that regularly contaminates the lake.
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Clean Harbors is in the business of cleaning up industrial waste that is deemed hazardous.
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The 295 affected sites have industrial waste from petrochemical companies, acid compounds, solvents and pesticides.
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The river, historically polluted by industrial waste, produced water that was discolored and foul-smelling.
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The 13 affected sites have industrial waste from petrochemical companies, acid compounds, solvents and pesticides.
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Coal ash is one of the most-generated forms of industrial waste in the country.
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"We're designed to take human waste and industrial waste and make it clean," Elardo said.
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All the camps were within 200 yards of industrial waste from a lead-smelting factory.
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All puppers—and people—deserve to swim in water that hasn't been tainted with industrial waste.
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Puerto Rico has about 24 industrial waste sites contaminated by industries including pesticides and battery recycling.
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These bunker fish, also known as menhaden fish, weren't killed by toxic algae or industrial waste.
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The six-string is crafted from Ekoa, a composite made of flax and industrial waste bioresin.
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Industrial waste was introduced into the Flint River with the first lumber mills in the 1830s.
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The deluge could push industrial waste sites to the limit, Governor Roy Cooper said on Friday.
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It's made of Ekoa, a proprietary composite of flax linen and bio-resin made from industrial waste.
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Flowing south of Buenos Aires, it carries human and industrial waste into the much larger River Plate.
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Industrial waste and sewage pour in from open drains, as clouds of foam float on its surface.
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Industrial waste, medical waste and mining waste often contain toxic substances in even greater quantities and concentrations.
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Today it is a poky little stream, bounded and half-buried, fouled with decades of industrial waste.
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Aside from human and hog waste, industrial waste from coal could also be floating in the mixture.
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Mercury from illegal gold mines, fertilizer from farms and industrial waste from factories have polluted the Irrawaddy.
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The room setup reflects the Pearl River Delta seen in Zhou's camera — abandoned industrial waste, manmade craters.
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Pollution, including plastic, industrial waste, sewage and fertilizers, poses a serious threat to marine life, Thomson said.
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All three camps were within 200 yards of enormous piles of industrial waste from a lead-smelting factory.
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The river smells of industrial waste and sewage — a catastrophe years in the making, with far-ranging consequences.
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"Man's turned against them," the boatman says, referring to the human and industrial waste that's poisoning their habitat.
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Coal ash is one of the largest forms of industrial waste, according to the US Environmental Protection Agency.
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Coal ash -- industrial waste created by coal-burning power plants -- is stored in ash basins in the ground.
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Seal stampScreenshot: Harold StrakRivers in cities can easily fill with heaps full of trash, lost things, and industrial waste.
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Instead, he basks in the massive commercial and industrial waste heaped into dumpsters behind restaurants, offices and construction sites.
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For decades, industrial waste and sewage poured into the Karun, Iran's largest navigable river, without the slightest state interference.
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The Socrates Sculpture Park, a refurbished industrial waste center, is finishing its thirtieth celebration of its LANDMARK exhibition series.
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Sustained water pollution from human and industrial waste have rendered the coastal city's two lagoons uninhabitable to some fish species.
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Meanwhile, the deeper the wells go, the greater their contamination from chemical fertilisers and manure as well as industrial waste.
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Like his work from the 1970s and '80s, these sculptural paintings exploit industrial waste — including aluminum, tin, and metal scraps.
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It's been a dumping ground for everything from industrial waste to 800 pounds of human waste from Dave Matthews' tour bus.
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The levels are largely dark, industrial waste grounds, but each one has clearly been redrafted time and again to facilitate stealth.
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The issue was related to the disposal of industrial waste at a public works site in Chiba Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo.
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It also calls for the introduction of regulations designed to reduce industrial waste and encourage companies to increase reuse and recycling.
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A pollution exclusion in a business insurance policy applies to accidental dispersals of industrial waste, a federal appeals court held on Monday.
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In the meantime, it started drawing water from the Flint River — a waterway polluted with high levels of industrial waste and agricultural runoff.
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Union Pacific Railroad subsequently acquired the company's old Tacoma rail yards, where it discovered an environmental disaster of oil and other industrial waste.
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Walmart has been donating water to Flint since July of 2015, and six months on, the taps are still churning out industrial waste.
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Safe management of industrial waste by industries is also highlighted, along with stopping the use of hazardous pesticides and child labor in agriculture.
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For example, Nzyme2HC is paired with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory to generate hydrogen for fuel cells using, among other things, industrial waste.
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In the meantime, it started drawing water from the Flint River — a waterway polluted with high levels of industrial waste and agricultural runoff.
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The poisoning of Appalachia's drinking water — from mining runoff, industrial waste, worn-out pipes, a whole confluence of causes — isn't a new story.
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According to another estimate, 40 percent of all deaths in Pakistan are caused by water contaminated with sewage, industrial waste, arsenic or diseases.
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The New River, which flows across the border between Calexico, Ca., and Mexicali, Mexico, has long been contaminated with sewage and industrial waste.
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Superfund sites are areas contaminated by hazardous industrial waste that have been identified by the EPA as candidates for a federal clean-up program.
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Minutes later he was neck-deep in Vasai Creek where untreated chemicals and industrial waste float - and, at times, the corpses of fellow workers.
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Ms. Dickens, an acclaimed Aboriginal mixed-media artist, was thoughtfully at work as she foraged among discarded building materials, broken toys and industrial waste.
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According to the EPA, people have been trying to get water from Superfund sites, which are the most toxic industrial waste sites in America.
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Capturing CO2 (either from industrial waste streams or from the ambient air) and using it in industry is known as carbon capture and utilization (CCU).
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ZrCoin plans to build a factory in Russia to extract zirconium from industrial waste; cameras on the site are supposed to let investors monitor progress.
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The CGT union called on workers' representatives on the EDF board to oppose the plant's closure, saying it would be an economic and industrial waste.
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This can include signatures produced by communications systems, propulsion devices, megascale engineering projects (such as Dyson spheres), and even industrial waste, among many other possibilities.
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Today, much of the region's wildlife has been eradicated by the untreated sewage and industrial waste that pours into the bay on a daily basis.
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Such efforts continued after the fire, when industries along the Cuyahoga chipped in $3.5 billion to reduce sewage and industrial waste flowing into the waterway.
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Water from the river is used to irrigate nearby vegetable fields, she said, adding that Tanzania has virtually no safe disposal systems for industrial waste.
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A report issued last year by government's Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency said 150 million tonnes of industrial waste end up in the Nile every year.
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The park is located in London's East End, a historically low-income area burdened by tracts of toxic land from centuries of exposure to industrial waste.
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Also that year, Khoi attended a public protest after toxic industrial waste was released from a steel plant called Formosa Plastic contaminating waters and killing fish.
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Image: NASAThe Greenland ice sheet is vast, majestic, pristine....and peppered with bacteria that seem equipped to survive in industrial waste, according to a new study.
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Some dogs smell for environmental contaminants at industrial waste sites, and others find the smuggled tusks and horns unfairly removed from their elephant and rhinoceros hosts.
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After decades of development, raw sewage, industrial waste and litter have poured in from a metropolitan area that is home to more than 11 million people.
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Between 1967 and 1971, the Ford Motor Company dumped industrial waste from its nearby factory in the woods of Upper Ringwood, where many Ramapough families lived.
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The Northwest Indiana Times newspaper reported BP had discharged a total of 26,621 pounds of industrial waste particles, or five times its daily limit, on Tuesday.
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And then there are some really nasty forms of industrial waste, such as spent nuclear fuel, for which no universally accepted disposal methods have thus far been developed.
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Rich countries spend some $120 billion a year disposing of their municipal waste alone and another $150 billion on industrial waste, according to CyclOpe, a French research institute.
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Thursday's accord resolves charges that from 2008 to 2015, Yuengling repeatedly violated Clean Water Act requirements for the discharge of industrial waste that goes to municipal treatment facilities.
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The small generators (just 2m3) can also run off low-temperature industrial waste heat, turning waste heat from a ship's engines or a steel plant's furnaces into electricity.
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The pair of quivering butterflies in "Papalutzin" are cut from colorful aluminum cans, with the Pepsi logo visible on one blue wing—a monarch reincarnated from industrial waste.
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Though it is heavily polluted by sewage and industrial waste, the Ganges provides water to 500 million people for everyday use, and for all those offerings to Shiva.
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But while standing in a greenhouse watching happy twenty-somethings harvest perfect, crunchy lettuce in a neighborhood formerly known for industrial waste, Puri and Lightfoot's visions appear clear.
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Phosphorus and ammonium nitrate, which mainly come from industrial waste water, pesticides and organic fertilisers, were identified as the major pollutants of water pollution, the MEE said in a statement.
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Similarly, the burial site for 18 million gallons of industrial waste in Criner, Oklahoma, might just look like another field off a country road, yet overhead its scope is revealed.
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The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that the coal industry generates 130 million tons of ash each year, making it one of the largest sources of industrial waste in the country.
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When TIME Magazine published dramatic photos of a river on fire, it reported that the river was so saturated with sewage and industrial waste that it oozed rather than flowed.
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Think Antoni Gaudí's similarly sized Park Güell in Barcelona, but homespun, distinctly Indian, and made entirely of industrial waste and found rocks, by the self-taught artist Nek Chand Saini.
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Of the city's 4 reservoirs, 2 are dry and the other 2 are so polluted by raw sewage and industrial waste that their water must be heavily treated before piping.
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The government has made "concrete arrangements" regarding geothermal heating, biomass heating, solar heating, gas heating, electric heating, industrial waste heating, and clean coal-fired central heating, the Securities Times said.
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According to The Hindustan Times, the dogs were swimming in a local river that had been polluted by a company releasing industrial waste into it, including some sort of cerulean dye.
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Among new products and non-nuclear areas Rosatom is targeting are equipment for the energy sector, safety systems, recycling hazardous industrial waste, as well as new materials such as carbon fiber.
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It said 50 new "comprehensive utilization" bases would deal with bulk solid waste and another 50 with industrial waste from sectors such as metals production, coal mining, construction, agriculture and forestry.
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China also produces 3.3 billion tonnes of industrial waste every year, including tailings from mines, with the accumulated volume now amounting to 60 billion to 70 billion tonnes nationwide, he said.
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But the logistics of engulfing a wheelie bin – or any other kind of industrial waste receptacle, for that matter – in flames purely for the sick, sick high simply doesn't make sense.
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For example, in Nigeria, once home to the most polluted city in the world, local councils created policies on industrial waste removal, and businesses that financed the waste system received tax subsidies.
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This month, people waded into the capital's stretch of the Yamuna River, which is largely untreated sewage, to wash, clean utensils and take selfies with icebergs of foam formed by industrial waste.
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The Delaware River, she said, is an example where industrial waste caused such poor water quality in the 1950s and '60s that shad and other species would not migrate north of Philadelphia.
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And now another, smaller river — the Saw Mill, which meanders into the Hudson, but was paved over in the 19th century when it was fouled with industrial waste — is drawing development inland.
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Formosa had denied wrongdoing in the matter, and the Deputy Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources said the fish deaths had been caused either by a toxic algae bloom or industrial waste.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A storage bunker at an industrial waste treatment plant exploded at the port of Antwerp in northern Belgium on Friday, sending up a dark cloud of smoke hundreds of meters high.
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Over the years, Highland Acid Pits, another Harris Country site, collected an unknown amount of industrial waste, including sulfuric acid from oil and gas refining, leaching hazardous chemicals into the soil and groundwater.
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LATE LAST year mysterious trucks started dumping industrial waste at a precolonial archaeological site in Duque de Caxias, an industrial city of 22010,300 people some 226km (229 miles) north of Rio de Janeiro.
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This waterway which flows through Flushing-Meadows Corona Park and empties into the East River has been polluted by decades of industrial waste, and its sewage overflows continue to be fatal to fish.
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In addition to optical signals, SETI researchers can look for other potential signs of alien intelligence, such as microwave or neutrino emissions, Dysonian megastructures, industrial waste signatures, transiting space habitats, and so on.
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INDRAMAYU, Indonesia, Nov 19 (Reuters) - An Indonesian workshop is turning industrial waste and chicken feathers into decorative models of roosters, in a bid to reduce waste and generate income for low-paid workers.
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Whales that live off the coast of Seattle, Tacoma and other cities are effectively urban whales buffeted by municipal and industrial waste, and the occasional spillage from wastewater treatment plants into the ocean.
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With all our toxins and plastic and industrial waste bleeding into the blood of the world, it behooves humanity to salvage what is left of the seas and its great minds the cetaceans.
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Arsenic and fluoride occur naturally in the groundwater, but become more concentrated as the water becomes scarcer, while nitrates come from fertilisers, pesticides and other industrial waste that has seeped into the supply.
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The storm's potential path also includes half a dozen nuclear power plants, pits holding coal-ash and other industrial waste, and numerous hog farms that store animal waste in massive open-air lagoons.
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But even Dr Rodolfo Montaño, from Jalisco's environmental secretariat, recently admitted that it only has the capacity to treat up to 75 percent of the sewage and industrial waste that flows into the river.
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Tropical storm Harvey damaged at least 13 dump sites for thousands of tons of industrial waste, but flooding has prevented the EPA from inspecting damages in all but two sites, the agency said Saturday.
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Authorities want more cement plants to adopt the practice and start using chicken and industrial waste, as well as sludge from water treatment, said Sonia Ytaurte Nasser, executive director of the waste management agency.
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Sugar cane and corn starch derived from industrial waste are among the ingredients for Ecoshell's products, which Camacho says will break down in months rather than the hundreds of years needed for traditional plastic.
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The test at the Klemetsrud incinerator, which burns household and industrial waste, is a step beyond most efforts to capture and bury greenhouse gases at coal-fired power plants or factories using fossil fuels.
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When Flint switched to water processed by Detroit in 18.13, the main motivation was to properly treat municipal and industrial waste and secure enough water for a growing population; cleanliness and health were afterthoughts.
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You may be thinking that diamonds are kind of an expensive way to achieve this, but as it turns out, the company is actually creating the coating materials from low-cost diamond industrial waste.
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Communities across the country have accused coal companies of poisoning their drinking water with contaminants from leaking coal ash, which is considered the second-largest industrial waste stream in the country behind household garbage.
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The lake began slipping into decline in the 1960s thanks to untreated sewage flowing into it from the densely populated outskirts of the capital, as well as industrial waste from factories and sand mines.
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There were immediate concerns among residents about the quality of the murky water from the Flint River, which years ago was a repository for industrial waste from the city's once booming, now almost extinct, factories.
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She applied these ideas to projects like "Friends of Minamata Victims" (1972), her documentary of the protests outside of the Chisso Corporation, a Minamata-based chemical company that was dumping industrial waste into the water.
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Half a dozen large rectangular bales of industrial waste — each at least 30 x 65 x 42 inches in size and comprised of either aluminum scraps or frayed wires — are dispersed on the gallery floor.
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A Swedish court ruled in favor of mining company Boliden in a civil case on Thursday, where the company had been sued over the export of industrial waste to Chile in the 1980s.
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The focus of the clean-up effort has been on industrial waste, but the best plan would establish smaller treatment plants that start at the source of the river and its tributaries, and proceed downward.
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Rates for industrial waste are also improving (in places that have industry), though they already tend to be high because factories produce large, predictable volumes of more homogeneous refuse that is often valuable (like metal scrap).
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Best known for the Fiat factory and a scandal involving toxic industrial waste buried in its surrounding countryside by the local mafia, Pomigliano is a maze of nondescript streets with no green spaces and narrow pavements.
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But the river's cleansing abilities are limited by the fact that the Ganges is one of the world's most polluted waterways: A billion gallons of raw sewage and industrial waste currently pour into it every day.
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Guanabara Bay, where the sailing competition was held, is clogged with sewage, industrial waste and rubbish, and alarm bells about athletes' safety began to ring once 22013 American rowers fell ill after competing there last year.
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Intent on finding ways to reduce industrial waste, she started a side project with like-minded friends — most of them also immigrants — and craft beer provided an easy target: Everyone loved it, but it had issues.
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Duke Energy confirmed breaches to a cooling lake dam at its L.V. Sutton plant in Wilmington, although it said coal ash -- industrial waste created by coal-burning power plants -- is probably not moving into the river.
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The center of the dump, where cranes compact industrial waste, looks like a warzone—a dusty, filthy, deafeningly far cry from the glittery sheen of Hong Kong, where tycoons and traders move money in tall glass towers.
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The minister also blamed the Delhi city government for falling short of meeting its targets to rein in pollution from construction activities, open dumping or the burning of waste, including industrial waste, traffic congestion and road dust.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China has detained three people suspected to be responsible for the discharge into a river of industrial waste water containing 180 times the maximum safe amount of zinc, state news agency Xinhua said on Saturday.
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The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency said in a filing made available on Monday that ETP violated rules against storm water discharges, industrial waste disposal and the release of bentonite slurry, a clay and water mix, into waterways.
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Images of wildlife impaled on straws and filling their stomachs with plastic are disturbing, but the real problem is microplastics, which result from the breakdown of plastics in industrial waste and bioaccumulate across the marine food chain.
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It is one of the largest forms of industrial waste, according to the US Environmental Protection Agency, and it contains heavy metals including arsenic, lead and mercury, which can pose serious health risks to humans and animals.
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During a press conference, a Deputy Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources said the deaths had been caused either by a toxic algae bloom or industrial waste, but insisted no evidence linked Formosa to the event.
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In many cases, the increase of non-governmental organizations in the area has been helpful, Chakravorty, the Tufts professor, said, particularly in curbing the construction of additional factories, power plants, or dams that may dump industrial waste.
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By drilling deep into Greenland's ice sheet, an interdisciplinary team of researchers has chronicled the industrial waste produced by the ancient Greeks and Romans over a 1,900-year period, linking pollution to economic booms, wars, and even plagues.
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Much new growth in Europe is likely to come from contracts in handling "difficult" industrial waste, ranging from dismantling retired oil rigs, trains and planes to the storage and processing of asbestos, pharmaceutical by-products or carbon dioxide.
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BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China must work more closely with journalists and non-government bodies to expose incidents of water pollution, an official said on Friday, after activists this week discovered two untreated cesspits filled with hazardous industrial waste.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia has ordered nearly 500 schools and kindergartens to close until Thursday, after dozens of people were hospitalized with symptoms suggesting they breathed toxic fumes, possibly from industrial waste, the second such incident this year.
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Environmental concerns persist Officials continue to be worried about contamination and environmental hazards resulting from the storm, including the potential impact of coal ash, an industrial waste created by coal-burning power plants that can carry health risks.
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Bangladesh lacks the infrastructure to effectively manage its waste, which causes problems in keeping the waters safe for human and aquatic lives, while dozens of tanneries on the banks of the river contribute industrial waste into the groundwater.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. environmental regulator warned residents of Puerto Rico on Wednesday not to break into wells at industrial waste sites as parts of the island still struggle with drinking water shortages three weeks after Hurricane Maria hit.
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The Chilean environmental inspectorate (SMA) said on Wednesday night that it had conducted a two-week investigation and would bring charges against ENAP for environmental flaws in its liquid industrial waste treatment process in the maritime terminal it operates.
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Programs on the White House's chopping block include grants for clean-up work at brownfield industrial waste sites, the Energy Star energy efficiency program, climate change efforts and funding for Alaskan native villages, according to a Washington Post report.
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Last year, Shagang, China's largest privately-owned steel producer, was found to have dumped millions of tonnes of untreated industrial waste, including slag from steel production, in landfills near the banks of the Yangtze river, contaminating nearby soil and water.
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Sinosphere BEIJING — Chinese officials have pledged to replace school running tracks made of industrial waste that have reportedly sickened thousands of children, the latest public health scandal in a country already troubled by environmental hazards including air pollution and soil contamination.
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The 40 inches of rain Hurricane Florence has dumped on North Carolina is leaving a trail of industrial waste as runoff from coal ash pits, inundated sewage systems, and feces from dozens of hog farms pours into rivers, lakes, and neighborhoods.
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Those jobs are right under the miners' feet: restoring the natural environment of a region devastated by a century and a half of coal mining that has left streams polluted, mountains leveled and industrial waste choking once-scenic hillsides and hollows.
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These hidden costs range from the expense of car repairs that result from roads ruined by truck traffic, to the more troubling health consequences of living next door to leaking pools of industrial waste — including dying animals and sick children.
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"But we need to understand that, if we talk about heavy projects in the nuclear industry, such as the Northern Sea Route (NSR) or industrial waste, of course, without support of the state as an anchor investor this is hard," he said.
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The island is a poster child for recycling, recovering 52% of rubbish collected from households and commerce, as well as 77% of industrial waste, rivalling rates achieved by South Korea, Germany and other top recycling nations (America recycles 26% and 44% respectively).
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Ambitious plans to clean up the city's industrial waste and sewage have been in the works for decades, along with a proposal for a car-free city center and a ban on using oil to heat buildings that is to go into effect in 2020.
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The quantity and variety of industrial waste being dumped in 12 sand mining pits selected at random by inspectors was described as "shocking" by the ministry, which in May unveiled new measures to crack down on the illegal transportation and dumping of solid waste in China.
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It's a gesture to some of the most urgent problems of our times—that our environment is quickly being overcome by masses of industrial waste, that more resources are dedicated toward policing and military spending than trying to fix it, and that we all are, in our own small ways, complicit.
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However, a mountain of evidence has demonstrated for years that disclosure alone cannot protect investors from conflicts of interest or other forms of financial abuse, any more than disclosure can protect Americans from contaminated pharmaceuticals, spoiled food on the grocery store shelf or toxic industrial waste poured into our local waterways.
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The authorities plan first to infect them with man-made illnesses; then to isolate them on an island that previously served as a trash heap, industrial waste site, and clandestine laboratory for nefarious state experiments; and finally to eradicate them, replacing real dogs with a breed of lethal government-issue robot dogs.
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Lisa Pryor SYDNEY, Australia — Down the hill from my house, there is an old building with a saw-toothed roof that once warehoused trams, back when the bay was heavy with industrial waste and working-class people could afford to buy a home this close to the city and harbor of Sydney.
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Latham himself spent time at the Scottish Office in Edinburgh researching industrial waste heaps called ''bings'' that were created by distilling oil from shale, and the artist David Hall made 10 short films, called ''TV Interruptions,'' that were broadcast uncredited on Scottish Television and are now regarded as landmarks of British video art.
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Residents in those areas are still recovering from catastrophic floods in 2015, as well as from widespread damage from Matthew in 2016 Environmental hazards threaten Officials are also worried about contamination and environmental hazards, including the potential effects of coal ash, an industrial waste created by coal-burning power plants that can carry health risks.
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Artist Joan Linder has made it her business over the last three and a half years to explore and document some of the industrial waste disposal areas of the Great Lakes region, surveying and cataloguing her observations while sitting in her car at a safe distance, as indicated by the dosimeter that is her constant companion.
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After walking the audience of laypeople and waste experts through his blueprints, he explained that digestion beats composting because it generates energy, and that digesting his way trumped digesting inside a wastewater-treatment plant because that plant's back-end digestate contained sewage, plus traces of many other materials — including industrial waste and heavy metals — that go down city pipes.
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Over the past decade, there's been a quiet march of progress on a range of technologies like engineered photosynthesis (the conversion of carbon dioxide from industrial waste into fuel using help from micro-organisms like algae), power-to-gas or P2G (methods that can transform renewable-produced electricity into liquid fuels by separating water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen), and new waste-based alternative fuels (that reduce emissions relative to fossil fuels without impacting the food system).
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Examples of such designs include a carbon-negative raincoat made from a marine-algae-derived polymer (Charlotte McCurdy, "After Ancient Sunlight," 193); textiles made with seaweed (Julia Lohmann, Violaine Buet, and Jon Lister, "Department of Seaweed: Living Archive," 2018-ongoing); a vessel and chisel made from lithoplast, a plastic-based industrial waste residue (Shahar Livne, "Metamorphism," 2017-ongoing); a 3D-printed tire made from recycled and biological materials (Michelin, "Visionary Concept Tire," 22017-22015); a series of bowls, cups, and vases made from a biopolymer containing algae microorganisms (Studio Klarenbeek & Dros with Atelier Luma, "Algae Vessels," 22019); a biodegradable body suit that assists in breaking down toxins found in human corpses (Jae Rhim Lee, "Infinity Burial Suit," 22018-ongoing); and geometrically shaped mangrove planting pots that, as the trees mature, increase shoreline resilience (Sheng-Hung Lee, "TetraPOT 219 – The Evolution of Greener Sea Defense," 22018-23).
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