- We Make Good
We all need to be more conscious of the clothes we buy – we discard some 110,000 tonnes of textiles every year – but some companies are taking a new approach to recycling their uniforms. Branded uniforms and soiled workwear are really difficult to recycle but one Dublin social enterprise – We Make Good – are doing just that, making good old and tired workwear with some enterprising remodelling.
- HIBRA
Off-road vehicles are the workhorses of industry – think tractors and diggers and cranes … scooping, moving, stacking. Typically they run on diesel … but one tree-hugging petrol head from Cork wants to change all that by re-engineering these big industrial machines to run on electricity.
- 3D House Printing
We have a housing crisis in this country … and we have a climate crisis. Typically new houses are made from concrete and cement – materials that generate a lot of CO2. What if there was a new way of building that was much faster than traditional methods – potentially helping the housing crisis – and that also produced less CO2, potentially helping the climate crisis? Could 3D printed houses catch on?
RTE One Ep1 15 October
