Tag: Zero Waste - Page 5
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Smart Packaging Warns You Before Your Food Expires
Food waste is a serious issue. And while schemes ranging from biojet fuel made from organic trash to mandatory food waste collection might help divert that waste to a good use, it would be
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Britain Discards 10 Stadiums of Food Waste a Year
When I wrote about Qantas Airlines' plan to make biojet fuel from food waste, I worried that there wouldn't be enough food waste to go around. It turns out I was wrong, in the short term at
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Airline to Launch Massive Biojet Fuel-from-Waste Project
British Airways is already working on a goal of running planes on 10% made-from-waste biofuel, Air New Zealand has a goal of using one million barrels of sustainable biofuels by 2013, and
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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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Awesome Clocks Made From Turntables, Apple Computers, Bikes and More
PixelThis is an artist who builds beautiful and funky clocks made from all sorts of recycled things -- record players, computer parts, even bike wheels. PixelThis states, "I have been taking things apart since the day I
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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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WWF Document Format Saves Paper By Refusing To Let You Print
There are gads of programs, downloads, and even fonts that help you conserve paper when you print. And there are those little taglines on emails that encourage readers to think before printing. However, there is one new strategy from WWF that really
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iPad Sleeve Made from Recycled Movie Banners
Since the moment the iPad came out, accessories have flooded the marketplace, but finally here is one we really love. Created by Aire, a team of designers who make the health of the planet a priority in their creations, have come up with
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Christmas Tree Made of 100 Bicycles Lights Up in Australia
Standing 23 feet tall is a strangely gorgeous holiday tree made of bits of bikes. It is installed at The Rocks in Sydney Australia, one of many trees made from recycled materials. While it is on display for just a
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Perfectly Sized Post-It Notes for Less Waste
Some of the best design ideas make simple things even simpler. Post-It notes are already such handy inventions, but you have to buy separate pads for different uses. But this simple design concept allows you to tear off just the
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Finally, A Practical Guide to Dealing With...Manure (Book Review)
It's not often that a book inspires you to go out and shovel steaming piles of horse poop on a cold November afternoon. But that's exactly what happened to me after reading Gene Logsdon's Holy Shit, and I
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iPads Help FareShare Rescue Good Food from Landfill
"Approximately 28,000 supermarkets worth of food goes to landfill every year in Victoria," suggests FareShare CEO Marcus Godinho. FareShare is a food rescue service in Melbourne, Australia, who were a joint winners of the 2010
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How Dedicated Students Reduced Cafeteria Trash by a Third
When my students calculated that our school filled 18 cans of trash each day during
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Make Today A Zero Waste Day
The can, bottle and plastics manufacturers and their lobbyists want you to celebrate America Recycles Day today. But recycling isn't good enough anymore; we have to do better. Let's make today a Zero Waste Day:
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Radical Transparency - InterfaceFLOR Commit to Environmental Product Declarations on all Products by 2012
This week The Man with A Spear in His Chest, founder of Interface Ray Anderson, held a press conference to mark a milestone in his company's journey up "Mount Sustainability". They are making excellent progress towards their target of zero
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Behind the Scenes Look at Industrial-Scale Composting (Video)
From bicycle-based compost collection to city-wide mandatory composting, TreeHugger is a big fan of taking waste organic matter and putting it to good use. But what happens once your kitchen scraps and other organic waste are
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Does Weekly Trash Collection Discourage Recycling?
The new Conservative-lead coalition in Britain may have won considerable green kudos by committing to 10% CO2 cuts across government activity in just one year, but they should by no means be
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Valencia Design Week 2010: The Three Little Pigs, a Cardboard Fable (Photos)
Here's a fun installation by Spanish design studio Sanserif Creatius, called The Three Little Pigs. It is a fable about the value of the materials with which we design. Exposed in the
