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$12+M awarded to 4 projects seeking to design crops with ability to fix their own nitrogen; no artificial fertilizers

Green Car Congress

They also generate environmental problems from degrading soil to runoff into rivers where they pollute fresh waters and coastal zones. Voigt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Susan Rosser, University of Glasgow; and Bill Rutherford, Imperial College London. Golbeck, Penn State University; Christopher A. Team members are John W.

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Are Disposable Hotel Slippers the Next Plastic Straws?

Baua Electric

Waste from hotel slippers may seem minor when compared to larger issues like energy consumption, food waste or water usage,” Mr. Legrand wrote. Six Senses Crans-Montana in Switzerland stocks Kaaita felt slippers made from recycled plastic bottles that can be washed and reused or recycled at the end of their life span.