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The Greens Are The Only Winner From Australia’s Federal Election

Images: Sydney Morning Herald (left), and The Greens (right). You may recall that just eight weeks ago Australia found itself with a new Prime Minister , it’s first female one at that, in Julia Gillard. She had ousted Kevin Rudd , who although sweeping … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The Greens Are The Only Winner From Australia’s Federal Election

Rubber Made from Chewed Gum Could Replace Plastic

Image via The Gumdrop Bin It’s not news that chewing gum is the scourge of city sidewalks. Nor that it takes a lot of money and energy to clear gum off walkways, shortening the lifespan of the surfaces at the same time. Designer Anna Bullus read the statistics of the gum problem in London — that the government spends £150 million annually to clean up gum, over 30,000 pieces of which end up stuck to Oxford street alone each day — and she decided there must be a better way to deal with the problem. So, she headed to the laboratory and came up with a way to transform chewed gum into a us… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Rubber Made from Chewed Gum Could Replace Plastic