Category: Innovation

Luxury hotel installs solar trash compactor and cardboard baler

Bardessono's new solar powered trash compactor and portable cardboard baler packs 16 yards of rubbish into just 4 yards, reducing collections to once a week

Southwest Airlines new circular economy partnership

Partnership between Southwest Airlines and upcycling company Looptworks has turned 80,000 discarded Southwest airplane seats into desirable products

New online map shows where tourism most benefits women

Gender Responsible Tourism has published an interactive map of trip locations where women benefit most, either directly or through community projects

GreenHotelWorld first OTA to offset hotel carbon footprints for free

Sustainable OTA GreenHotelWorld now enables travellers to book 'non-green' hotels on its site, and have emissions associated with their stay offset for free

Open source map makes world more wheelchair friendly

Wheelmap, an app that enables users to find which facilities and locations are wheelchair friendly, and add their own data, is 5 years old.

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