Tag: Waste - Page 9
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NYC Sewage Treatment Plants Embracing the Power of Poo
A small section of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection's latest press release has some interesting news for clean energy: Under the sustainability section of their strategic plan DEP plans on developing 30-50 MW of clean energy at
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Does Love Make You Greener? The Pros and Cons
In the haze of new love, it's hard to look objectively at what your relationship is doing to the rest of your life -- and how it's falling into line with green goals.
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European Parliament Backs Tough Electronic Waste Recycling Targets
This week the European Parliament backed a proposal to re-write the WEEE directive. WEEE stands for Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment, and the directive sets requirements for the end-of-life
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The White Pages Wants to Ban Itself? See the Survey & Sexy Video
Seems we have a new chapter in Phone Book Wars. A new survey finds that a majority of Americans don't use the White Pages anymore. A majority also don't recycle it and don't want it left on their doorstep. Believe it or not, people go online to get
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Film Review: To Buy, To Throw Away, To Buy; the Secret History of Planned Obsolescence
Last month, Catalan TV3 just aired a new documentary called "comprar, llençar, comprar", meaning "to buy, to throw away, to buy" in Catalan, right on time for the christmas shopping and the winter sales which started this week. You can now watch the
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Nike's Better World Site: One Shoe Does Good, The Other Shoe Kicks Ass
Time was when it was difficult to write about Nike on TreeHugger without reminding everyone how blackened their ethical record was. Times have changed people. Being one of the biggest apparel companies in the world,
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Ban Plastic Bags Rap Goes Viral (Video)
OK, so the Great Pacific Garbage Patch may not be anywhere near as big as we thought, and some activists think plastic bags are a distraction from the major environmental issues we face. But that doesn't stop many others from
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How to Put That Lingering Holiday Waste to Good (Re)Use
The holidays are a distant memory but for many people, the ghosts of Christmas waste still linger. Believe it or not, in the United
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Bulgaria Joins Growing Fight Against Plastic Bags
It doesn't seem to matter what you're buying in Turkey -- a bottle of juice you're going to drink immediately, a tiny pen, or a half-kilo of cherries that's already in a plastic bag -- it's a heck of a task
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More Phone Directory Foolishness, From Maryland
What am I, the phone book blogger? It seems that way. After a ban on Yellow Pages in Seattle and a related industry lawsuit, the latest news on ditching phonebooks comes from Maryland. This time, it's the other way
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Just What We Needed Dept: Plastic Stamp Cuts Toast Into Tastier Strips
It's been awhile since we've added to the "Just What We Needed" pile, but this item was too much -- it had to be tossed onto the heap. This is one of those pieces of plasticrap that when you see it, all you can do is tilt your
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EPA Cooking the Books for the Coal Industry? Agency Inflated Value of Coal Ash Recycling By 20 Times
The EPA has said that coal ash recycling is worth more than $23 billion [PDF] a year, based on the pollution avoided and energy saved. The problem with that estimate? It's more than 20 times higher than the actual number—$1.15
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Why (and How) Should we Pick up Dog Waste?
It's a nice day, you're walking along and all of a sudden--squish. You don't even have to look because you know you've really
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Ask Pablo: Holiday Wrapping Paper
The exact
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U.S. Border Crossing to Become Wastewater-Recycling Living Machine
Enter the United States at the Otay Mesa Port of Entry on the Mexican border, and you'll never know just by looking around that you're walking through a "living machine" wastewater recycling system. But when
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Not Made in China, Designer Guillem Ferran Proves a Point with Products Made from Used Pallets (Photos)
Here is a series of objects with the unusual label "not made in China". The Catalan designer Guillem Ferran, whose Where Memory Used To Sit chair collection, Distendido and La Pell leather project we wrote
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Legal Questions Over Use of Coal Ash to Fill Abandoned Mines in Pennsylvania
Still waiting for the opportunity to report some good news on coal ash, but unfortunately, that's not today. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) has sent a letter to the Pennsylvania State Auditor
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Russia Investing $2 Billion in Space Debris Removal
We've seen some crazy ideas for getting rid of space debris, a problem that sounds absurd in itself but is actually a real issue for satellites and even astronauts in the International Space Station. However, Russia is set on a
