Tag: Waste - Page 11
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Duluth, Minn. Teams Up with the Sun to Take Out its Trash
Duluth, Minnesota is taking out its trash- and the sun is helping out. The City on Lake Superior announced on Thursday the debut of its Toss It Green
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What Happens When Storms Overwhelm NYC's Sewerage - A Stinking Flushing Away of Resources (Video)
If you need a really graphic illustration of what happens when storm water overwhelms a city's aging sewage system, watch this video of what happened two weeks ago in Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal (now a
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Take Part! 25th Annual International Coastal Clean-Up Day This Weekend
This Saturday, September 25th marks the 25th annual International Coastal Clean-Up Day. The grassroots effort has worked miracles for marine litter over the last quarter century -- last year nearly half a million volunteers
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Bill Clinton: Closing Landfills a "Silver Bullet"
As we know, Bill Clinton has a knack for fostering partnerships between states, businesses, and nonprofits: It's what his annual Global Initiative is all about. That extends even to some unlikely
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Waste Fruit Feeds the Hungry in Canada
Yesterday I posted about the Fresh 1% sustainable food grant. In the process, I came across an awesome project called LifeCycle which is working in Victoria, Canada, to glean unwanted fruit and redistribute it to those in need. The
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Is Hauling Your Own Trash Green?
When I took up the rural green life (elitist or not), there was an inevitable trade-off between bee keeping, large-scale composting, mushroom growing, keeping chickens and other 'sustainable' pursuits,
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Anti-Littering Campaigns: An Idea Whose Time Has (More Than) Come in Turkey and Iran
In the northeastern reaches of Turkey, outside the city of Kars, I came across one of the most bucolic scenes I'd ever laid eyes on in the
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Space Truck with Giant Butterfly Nets To Clean Orbiting Trash
In the ongoing attempt to come up with the best idea for removing the waste that orbits the earth, we've seen some real doozies for ideas -- from launching water to knock it out of orbit to the more feasable giant GoLD balloon. But the
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Can Twitter Change Chipotle's Paper Bag Usage?
Jamming phone lines, fax machines or e-mail boxes with messages has been a key tactic ever since I first became an environmental activist. I remember one Senator telling me in 1994, before the internet existed as we know it
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Bicycle-Based Compost Collection Turns Town Toward Smarter Sanitation
Composting is catching on nationwide as more cities provide services to residents for collecting food, landscape clippings and other compostable separate from recylables and landfill waste. But to test out if the St.
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For One Biochemist, Ben Franklin and Butter Inspired Biodiesel
It was an 800-pound butter sculpture of Ben Franklin that led researchers to decide dairy-to-diesel was even a possibility, according to this report in the New York Times.
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Ask Pablo: What Makes A Hotel "Green?"
Virtually every hotel these days has signs asking you to hang your towel if you want to use it again or leave it on the
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Ontario Blinks, and Hazardous Waste Eco-Fee Is Canned
That was fast! On July 1, 2010 the Ontario government introduced an eco fee on manufacturers and importers of goods that produce hazardous waste. The list of 8,700 items affected included cleaning products, asthma inhalers, laundry detergent, paints,
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U.S. Health Care Industry Makes a Dent in Massive Medical Waste
If you've ever sat in the dentist's chair wondering where all those shiny, silver teeth-cleaning tools might end up one day, or perhaps contemplated the future of the bio-hazardous waste
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Recycling as You've Never Seen it Before
Recycling is such an easy process. All it takes is a extra second to place a can, bottle, or piece of paper in a specially marked bin instead of the garbage. What happens next, however, is not so straight forward. Good takes us on a
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Couple Lives Trash Free for One Year
Okay, "trash free" technically only applies if you consider that the small box of non-recyclables accumulated by Amy and Adam Korst now counts as collectible. The Korsts write in their blog, Green Garbage Project:
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Dita Von Teese Showers in Perrier, Promotes Bottled Water
Using celebrities to sell unsustainable products like bottled water is nothing new. From Ellen Degeneres to Jennifer Aniston, celebrities hype the bad habit. The latest, though, is sure to spark a little more attention.
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World Cup's Soccer City Shows Scale of Mining Waste in South Africa
All eyes were on Soccer City yesterday as the World Cup played out. However, few eyes were seeing it from above, which is the perspective that reveals the neighboring mountains of waste from gold mines. While
