Tag: Waste - Page 7
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New E-Waste Recycling Opportunities
As new electronics are introduced all the time, the piles of e-waste grow and grow. According to the EPA, the United States on the whole throws out over 2 million tons of e-waste a year, which equals nearly 216 million units.
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No Impact Week is Sept 18-25 - Go On A Weekly Carbon & Waste Cleanse With YES! Magazine
In case you weren't aware, next week starts No Impact Week--which not so coincidentally is at the same time as Climate Week NYC and ends with 350.org's Moving Planet event on Saturday the 24th. So join YES! Magazine and the No Impact Project in going
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Behold the Toilet-Sharing App: The Last Frontier of the Cooperative Economy
We make it a point to emphasize the benefits of community sharing and cooperative resource pooling here at TreeHugger. It's why we love product service systems, renting instead of owning, and crowd-sourcing networks that maximize efficiency. There are
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You've Helped Better World Books Raise $10 Million For Literacy By Not Trashing Your Tomes
I'm a confirmed bibliophile and happily admit that digital books and e-readers have zero appeal to me--in large part because I already spend too much time online due to my profession and the idea of reading with yet another
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Portland, Oregon Becomes Latest City to Ban the Plastic Bag
Oregon's largest city has just joined a growing list of municipalities that are fed up with plastic bags -- It has just adopted an ordinance that will ban plastic bags from major grocery stores, as well as some big box
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North Face Steps Up To Responsibly Manage an Invisible Waste Stream
If you're like a lot of people these days, you know that avoiding plastic use is a good idea. You ditch the single serving water bottles for a good steel one. You choose paper rather than plastic. But did
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Could the Resurgence of Soda Fountains Banish Bottled Waste?
Starting way back in the early 1800s, folks relied on soda fountains to get their fizzy fix -- they'd head to department stores, diners, candy shops for the carbonated stuff. They peaked in the 40s and 50s, when everything
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How Just 3% of Denmark's Trash Ends Up in a Landfill (Video)
This is an entry in my series on Denmark's myriad efforts in the climate and clean energy arena, and why they seem to work. I'm trying to find out if Denmark-ifying societies around the world might stop climate change ... Photo courtesy of
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ROCK REUSE RECYCLE at Rock-A-Field Festival
Last weekend I experienced what was for me the greenest music festival so far. And not only because at Rock-A-Field in Luxembourg you actually get to rock a lush green field surrounded by dense forest. The organisers of RAF also set an example of how
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British University Experiments With Online 'Shaming' of Non-Recyclers: Does It Work? Is It a Good Idea?
If all your friends and peers could see what you were chucking into the trash, would you recycle more? Early reports from a dormitory experiment at England's Newcastle University
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California is About to Ban Styrofoam. Good Riddance.
California's state Senate just voted to ban the sale of Styrofoam containers. The bill would prevent restaurants and shops from distributing food in foam containers -- Californian's takeout and sodas will
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California Sheriff's Dept Aims For Paperless Office
However ubiquitous the 'save paper, don't print this email' email signature is, people are still doing just that. But the Sheriff's office in San Bernardino County is smartening up and has paper, the San Bernardino County
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Major Brands Say Goodbye to Excess Packaging
Good news, according to the New York Times: excess packaging, plastic in particular, is on the decline. Apparently more because of high oil prices than any environmental concern, but we'll take it. The Times has examples of
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Why Massive Food Waste is Cause for Global Concern
The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) recently issued an alarming report that states
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A Worldwide Survey of Plastic Bag Bans & Waste (Infographic)
Ah, disposable plastic bags. Otherwise known as the entirely pointless, eminently useless contraptions still clinging to relevance in modern, resource-strapped society. Now that we've put a man on the moon and split the
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Can Germans Organize Waste Even More?
Germany deserves its reputation as a leader in recycling. Why? In part due to a motivated populace, in part due to a focus on ease of use, and public policy as well as pricing structures targetted to encourage recycling. But when the Berlin
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Naples Brings In the Army to Take Out the Trash, Again
Naples has a major trash problem, and it's nothing new. The City's sanitation department is heavily influenced by mafia control, and as a result its streets are often littered with uncollected trash, and
