MONC LISTENS: VIOLET BAKERY

Monocle's 'The Entrepreneur' spoke to the maker of Prince Harry & Meghan Markle's wedding cake (back in December) - Claire Ptak, founder of Violet Bakery.

*It's also one of our favourite coffee spots to visit in London Fields.

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Solar Biopanels

With his firm Greenfluidics, Mexican biotechnician Adán Ramirez Sánchez has made solar panels powered by algae instead of minerals mined from the earth.

Recycling Face Masks into Roads

In response to the significant numbers of single-use face masks being disposed of during the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers at RMIT University in Australia have come up with an ingenious way of recycling them.

SILO LONDON: CERAMIC GLASS

Silo is the world’s first zero waste restaurant, and they have taken on a project to turn their waste glass into glass porcelain.

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