What if the ugly, in this case air pollutants, could give birth to something beautiful? One of our most common industrial outputs, soot, has a harmful effect on human and environmental health, but thanks to some resourceful thinking and innovation in pollution capture technology, combined with the development of a process for detoxifying and refining it, it can be ‘recycled’ into ink and paints. An MIT Media Lab spinoff company is turning soot into an
This high-quality ink is made from air pollution harvested from vehicle tailpipes
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