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  • Eco-friendly firefighting foam is based on soap

    Yui Sawada

    May 11, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Japan, Fukuoka

    Shabondama Soap, a company based in Japan, manufactures an eco-friendly foam extinguishing agent that can be used to fight wildfires. After an experiment showed that the shop can put out a fire quickly and with less water, the company started introducing it to other regions of the world including Indonesia and Thailand.

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  • Researchers use waste glass to clean up polluted sea

    Yui Sawada

    March 09, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Japan, Nagasaki

    The beach in Omura Bay in Japan isn’t a normal beach covered in sand: It’s covered in glass. This glass beach, developed by the Nagasaki Prefectural Environmental Health Research Center, is meant to recycle waste from the ocean and promote the growth of shellfish to maintain the water’s health. After five years, the center has seen about 525 clams per square meter, an increase over previous years.

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  • Distiller generates electricity from sweet potatoes

    Yui Sawada

    March 02, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Japan, Miyakonojō

    A Japanese alcohol distiller is using sweet potatoes to generate electricity. By using as much as 1,200 tons of sweet potatoes a day, they are able to turn the vegetable and turn it into biogas. The distiller generates about 8.5 million kilowatt-hours each year, which is used to power company-owned electric vehicles.

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