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recycling

Published: April 25, 2022 | Updated: August 16, 2023

Recycling is converting waste into new materials and objects.

It is important as it conserves energy, reduces air and water pollution, reduces greenhouse gases, and conserves our limited natural resources.

There are three types of recycling:

  • Mechanical Recycling: Waste is mechanically transformed into new materials without changing the chemical structures.
  • Energy Recycling: Waste is converted into both thermal and electric energy. This recycling method is widely used in Europe and Japan.
  • Chemical Recycling: Waste is chemically altered to produce new materials. Complex, expensive processes require large amounts of available plastic waste. Chemical recycling is still in its early development stages. 

pathways:

22.12.2022 /  Tech Explore / Enzymes could make it cheaper to recycle waste polyester textiles and bottles than making them from petroleum

06.10.2022 / JD Supra / California imposes significant limits on use of recyclable claims

19.04.2022 / PR Newswire / Glacier Raises $4.5M to Combat Climate Change with AI-Powered Recycling Robots

 

Nature is the original artist. Everything else is a response.

The Frame That Started Everything
Pale Blue Dot — NASA Voyager 1, 1990
Pale Blue Dot NASA Voyager 1 · 1990
1
Frame
195
Countries
8.3B
Human Beings
"

That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives.

Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994

From 3.7 billion miles away, Earth is a pale blue dot.

Up close...

it's a tide,

a forest floor,

a field of spring flowers.

Earth Week Photo Journal
One week.
One white frame.
One collective exhale.

This upcoming Earth Week, Project White Frame is seeking artists, land stewards, and community members to document and celebrate what they love in their everyday Nature. The ask is simple: find a part of Nature you love — or something designed to protect it — and surround it with a white frame.

Somewhere along the way, Earth Day became a marketing tagline. A hashtag. A limited-edition product drop. This event is a small act of reclamation, designed to remember the why...

Nature is the art.
The white frame is a mark of unity and solidarity.
A border that says: this matters. Look here.
Remember this...
How to Participate
Find: a part of Nature you love or something designed to protect it.
Frame: surround it with a white frame. Get creative, a frame is anything that supports the subject.
Share: post and tag #ProjectWhiteFrame2026
Earth Week · April 18–26, 2026
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