Tag: Waste - Page 12
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Obama's New Space Policy Includes Cleaning Up Space Junk
Announced earlier this week, President Obama's new National Space Policy is focusing on pollution both here on Earth and the space surrounding it. The new policy hopes to see an international collaboration to hone in on monitoring
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Ask Pablo: Waste Incineration, Good Or Bad?
Today the word "incineration" means much more than just burning trash
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New Design Turns Dog Poop into Gold- Well, Methane.
Scenario A: You're in the park walking your dog. He sniffs around, finds the perfect spot, squats and poops. You, being the responsible owner, break out the biodegradable plastic bag you brought and pick it up, then
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The Courtesy Flush Stinks: Bathroom Etiquette Gone Wrong
Ever feel like you live in a parallel universe? From the selective flush, to the slightly less controversial shared flush, I thought I had covered all the options for alternative toilet flushing methodologies. Heck, I've even
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Study Says Drug Manufacturing Facilities are Major Source of Drugs in Drinking Water
U.S. Geological Survey hydrologic technicians collect a stream sample from Hallocks Mill Brook downstream of the outfall of one of the wastewater treatment plants investigated. Photo courtesy of USGS. Guest bloggers Andrea Donsky and Randy Boyer are
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Yes, It's True: California is Banning Plastic Bags
Thanks largely to the interminable gloom of the BP Gulf oil spill, it feels like we haven't seen any good news on the green front for ages. But while all eyes have been on the Gulf, the California State Assembly passed a truly exciting
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Rome's Trashiest Hotel Built With 12 Tons of Litter
It may look like the perfect vacation getaway for say, Oscar the Grouch, but the first trash-built hotel is attracting some upper-crust, non-muppet clientele. Constructed on the banks of the Tiber in Rome, just across the river
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Cartoonist Explains the Pacific Garbage Patch With Talking Sealife (Slideshow)
So just how does garbage get from your hand all the way out into the middle of the Pacific Ocean where it swirls in a soup of trashy debris -- or if not there, then to one of the 4 other trash gyres in the oceans across
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Mozart Makes Microbes Eat Sewage Faster
It looks like Mozart has billions and billions more fans than we thought -- and much smaller ones, too. Evidently, sewage-eating microbes are major appreciators of the Austrian composer. One pioneering waste treatment plant in Germany
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Don't *@#! Where You Eat! - How We Let The Oceans Get So Bad.
Graham Hill, founder of TreeHugger.com, is currently aboard the 60 foot, 12,500 plastic bottle ThePlastiki.com vessel crossing the Pacific, fresh from the Galapagos where he covered TED Ocean's Mission-Blue conference. This post originally appeared on
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Paper With Recycled Content for Magazines Doesn't Have to Be Ugly, Proves FutureMark
We all have our favorite
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Solar Powered Trash Can Texts When Full (Video)
BigBelly Solar Trash Cans have been around for years - we wrote about them all the way back in 2005. They're waste bins that use solar power to run compactors so that they don't have to be emptied as often, making them perfect for areas
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Is a More Democratic Country Always a Greener One?
The package of constitutional reforms signed by Turkish President Abdullah Gül on Wednesday dominated the news agenda in the country as it progressed through vote after vote in parliament,
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Give Your Pitch for The Beat Waste Startup Challenge
It's open to any early-stage venture
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The Biggest Failure in Energy is Thinking Bigger Is Better: Biochar Entrepreneur Jason Aramburu
This is a guest post from founder and CEO of re:char Jason Aramburu. TREEHUGGER: What are the major advances have you seen (in your field) during the past 40 years? What, if any, were the major failures? JASON ARAMBURU: I think one of the greatest
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Sweating the Small Stuff: Do Little Eco-Habits Add Up?
Recently my wife threw out a tube of toothpaste that she thought was empty. I disagreed, retrieved it from the trash can, and continued to squeeze out paste for another week-and-a-half. Obsessive? Perhaps. But unused tothpaste
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Holy $h!t: Beautiful (and Useful) Objects Made from Dung (Slideshow)
Photo via BabyCare Daily digg_url='http://www.treehugger.com/galleries/2010/04/holy-shit-so-many-beautiful-and-useful-objects-made-from-dung.php';Dung may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of high concept design, but enterprising
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The City of Curitiba Cashes Your Waste For Surplus Food
We're widely aware of Curitiba's great public transit system, pedestrian streets, and Jaime Lerner's innovations in the city, but this one had slipped our sights.
