Basements flooded with surface water, seepage through walls, or backflow from sewer lines often suffer little or no structural damage from the water, because the water inside braces the walls against the pressure of outside water and waterlogged soil.
You need to take care when fertilizing plants since too much of any fertilizer can burn roots, reducing their ability to absorb water. This, in turn, makes the plants more susceptible to stress from drought, cold, and heat. Plants starved for nutrients are smaller and can be badly…
Street Cleaning is important because leaves and organic material on streets get into storm drains. Once in the drainage system, organic material releases phosphorous and nitrogen, polluting the Charles River or Alewife Brook. Furthermore, leaves can block drains, resulting in flooding
This week in future tech, a company hoping to take on the scourge of microplastic has successfully caught tonnes of ocean plastic.
The Ocean Cleanup is developing a passive cleanup method, which uses the natural oceanic forces to rapidly and cost-effectively clean up the plastic already in the oceans. With a full fleet of cleanup systems in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, we aim to clean up 50% of its…
Let’s face it, cleaning your house is time-consuming and you are not looking forward to doing it. However, it’s a job that you can only