“In Europe, we throw out so many things,” says Martine Postma, long frustrated by our throwaway culture. “I wanted to do something about it.”  What she did was to open the first Repair Café in Amsterdam, a social Read More …

    The sound of bad news ricocheting around the world is deafening.  Every news medium has a klaxon reverberating loudly, each one looking to outdo the other, with a story even worse than the last one.  We’re told we Read More …

    There was more positive news regarding plastic waste, with the announcement that a new super-enzyme has been developed to eat plastic rubbish.  It’s not the first time an enzyme has been found to munch through plastic, but the Read More …