Tag: Cleaning
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Vacuuming Robot Makes Energy from Scooped Up Food
A concept robot could scoop up scraps of food and convert them into energy.
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5 Must-Read Books for Small Space Organizing
Make the most of your home with these guides, offering clever space-saving tips.
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How to Clean Your Mattress
If you've never done this, you need to -- especially if you have pets or allergies. Don't worry: It's easier than you think.
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10 Eco-Friendly All-Purpose Cleaners for a Clean, Toxic Chemical-Free Home
From floors to windows and counters to tubs, any one of these cleaners can help you keep things spic and span -- without the worry.
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5 Common Household Cleaners Hazardous to Your Health
Cancer, asthma, allergies, oh my. The toxins watchdog EWG has unearthed some unnerving data about cleaners commonly used around the house.
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Pigeons Could Poop Soap, Thanks to a Special Diet
A plan to alter what pigeons eat to turn their feces into soap, to clean up buildings and car windshields raises ethical, legal and practical questions.
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5 New Eco Cleaning Products Seen at Natural Products Expo West 2012
Making spring cleaning harmful chemical-free can be confusing with so many products on the market: Try these.
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Wash’n’Wipes for Fruits and Veggies Can Keep Produce Fresh Longer
Eat Cleaner washes fruits, vegetable, fish and poultry, surfaces and hands to remove contaminents, increase shelf life and make colors pop.
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10 Cleaning Kits for a Toxic Chemical-Free Home
Get rid of tough dirt in every room of your house with these do-it-all kits -- without the harmful chemicals.
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20 Uses for Leftover Fruit and Vegetable Rinds and Peels
Don’t throw your kitchen scraps away, put them to work.
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How Washing Machines Are Adding to the Plastic Pollution Problem in Our Oceans
Tiny fragments of synthetic materials are coming from our washing machines and contaminating ocean shorelines around the world.
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Greening Your Home: How to Make Your Own Household Cleaners
I wrote the other day about a green cleaning service in New York. If you're interested in doing some green cleaning of your own, click through for a quick overview of how to make your own cleaners from natural, nontoxic ingredients. It's the most
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Lemonade Out of Lemons: Out-of-Work Day Laborers Open Eco-Friendly Cleaning Service in NYC
The New York Times had a nice story last week about women who would wait at a Williamsburg intersection to find work on a day-by-day basis. But there was no work on far too many days for comfort—getting a job for
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Paris Cleans Up with $50 Fines for Littering, Un-Picked Up Dog Poo and Public Urination
Paris is widely recognized as one of the world's most beautiful cities, and it has no intention of letting its reputation be sullied. The City is launching a new anti-littering campaign, with 35€ ($47) fines for all kinds of
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Vacuum Cleaner Made From Its Own Cardboard Packaging
One of the biggest floor-care brands in Britain has unveiled a cardboard vacuum cleaner made from its own packaging, the Vax ev. And it was created by a student.Open and Assemble—Without the Packaging Waste The vacuum is sold in a
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NY Times Says Green Sales Are Down, But Misses the Real Point
The New York Times has a story today about how the recession has caused consumers to stop buying green products, citing plummeting sales of mainstream brands' green products as a sign that "consumers' love affair"
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Seventh Generation Leads the Way in Recycled Packaging and Green (Healthy) Cleaning
Just over a month ago, Seventh Generation launched new packaging with 96 percent post-consumer recycled content. Anyone familiar with the numerous difficulties of plastics recycling knows that's huge. The company's also
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California Paves the Way for Lower-VOC Cleaning Products to Reduce Smog
Household cleaning products in the U.S. might soon be a little greener, thanks to a new rule in California that will require companies to reformulate products so they contain fewer volatile organic compounds, or
