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Building a more sustainable future one Kubik at a time 🏗️

Building a more sustainable future one Kubik at a time 🏗️

Welcome back to Pique Behind The Curtain! This week, we’re highlighting an episode from Reinventing Tomorrow to check out Kubik – a company turning recycled plastic waste into homes and community centers. Based in Ethiopia, Kubik is making building practices more sustainable, fighting for affordable housing, creating dignified jobs, AND cutting back on plastic waste... all at once. Keep reading to hear more! 🚧

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Let’s Go Full Circle! Increasing a Circular Economy🌀

Let’s Go Full Circle! Increasing a Circular Economy🌀

Circularity, a buzz word or the solution to the billions of tons of plastic waste swallowing our planet? We need a transformative approach to help solve this, enter: molecular recycling. This is what Rey Banatao and his team at Google’s X - The Moonshot Factory are working on. The final episode of Where the Internet Lives is out now! Keep reading to hear about how data and AI are helping to drive a more circular economy 🌀