waste

It was an amazing snapshot of what the Earth is going through, human, nature, and how they are so closely connected. It was a two part series special by CNN and it is coming back December 11th. Still don’t know what I am talking about? Well here’s what I said about last years part one:

Making what would otherwise be burnt or thrown away into beautiful tiles is Kirei, which means clean/beautiful in Japanese.

Sky and its environment partner, Global Action Plan, today launched Appetite for Action, a new initiative designed in partnership with teachers to help primary schools and their pupils reduce food waste.Over the next two years, the two organisations hope to engage 5,100 primary schools, with over one million pupils, to both inform their pupils about how they can reduce their food waste, as well as to reduce the school’s own food waste produced from canteens and lunch boxes.

What is the nature of label printing and what sustainability concerns are there? In this video interview, Jeff addresses these and other topics including waste, recycling, rock paper, and offsets.

This series details the many ways we can lessen our eco impact via our everyday routines. In this post, the eco impact of DVDs and CDs are examined, along with tips to lessen your footprint on the earth by mildly changing the way you watch movies—from Netflix to Blockbuster to bootlegs on Canal Street. (Plus, the image is hilarious, if you can read the Harry Potter fine print.)

Companies are stating to realize both the environmental and financial benefits to making “green decisions”

It’s lunchtime, baby. Panda Garden. Porky goodness. Mooshu style.

The “other white meat” in your takeout container falls behind beef and chicken in American consumption, but we do pig out on pig—on average, each of us consumes 51 pounds of Wilbur annually. That translates to big impact on our water and air.

Eco-Products will use a new $2 million investment to grow to $100 million in sales of its renewable products for the food-service industry.

The advent of bottled water sent our already wasteful consumer culture into pollution overdrive and it’s a tremendous task to put the brakes on the momentum of this waste. Here is a list of plastic bottle fun facts that put the magnitude of this pollution into scope...

A report published today has expressed disappointment at the UK government's cutting of funding to recycling advisory bodies and suggests increased efforts to cut business waste rather than merely clearing up afterwards...

We have submitted a recycling project for funding to Amex and need the public's help! Please click on the link to read the project and vote for it. You do NOT have to be an Amex cardholder to vote.  Just someone who cares about the environment and wants to make a difference! THANK YOU!

Have a listen to this interview with Ed Gildea, CEO of Converted Organics about the future of food waste.

Government waste is prevalent throughout our daily lives. From the pointless use of Police ATVs patrolling our completely safe beaches, to the quashing of plans for more efficient everything, our governments seem to be avoiding the imminent truth about our environmental crisis.

Catch the full interview with Ted Schettler, MD, one of the master sculptors shaping the new Green garde of hospital operations restructuring.

Thanks for huggin!

 R.

A Brazilian state has given manufacturers (including Ambev and FEMSA) and distributors a 11 August deadline for submitting a plan to increase recycling long-neck bottles used for beverages (primarily beer), or be fined heavily or even banned.

Saving water when you flush!  The latest and greatest toilets??!!

17 million barrels of oil was used last year to make the plastic bottles used for American water consumption producing 2.5 million tons of carbon dioxide. 86% become garbage or litter.

How can a mahogany desk, made of slow-growing hard wood plundered from the Amazon, be eco-friendly?

When it’s re-used.

A guest post from Simran Sethi and Sarah Smarsh

A juicy sound byte from our conversation with Dr. Ted Schettler of Health Care Without Harm AND try out the new embed code for our audio pieces!  Thanks for huggin!

The southern Brazilian state of Parana has adopted a law that will require take-back of end-of-life IT equipment.

A quick nugget of audio from our conversation with Ed Gildea, CEO of Converted Organics, doing some large-scale municipal sized composting.

The pollution in the Thi Vai river, near Saigon in Vietnam, has reached such a critical level that Japanese ships are now refusing to dock in the port for fear it will corrode their ships' hulls.

Follow these tips to help you reduce food waste, save money and protect the environment.

Americans receive about 26 billion bills and 9 billion paper statements in their mailbox each year. That equals…

755 million lbs of paper! 9 million trees! 512 million gallons of gas to deliver them! 19.6 BILLION lbs of greenhouse gas emissions!

If you are interested in living green than be aware of what you buy and what it’s packaged in.  Skip the tortured process of

Brazilian researchers have developed a new cost-saving and energy-saving way to recycle construction and demolition (C&D) waste. While innovative enough for a patent application, it's also so simple that some waste engineers and managers will slap their foreheads and exclaim why didn't I think of that!

Traditional methods of producing ethanol generally revolve around the digestion of waste plant matter from farms, switchgrass, corn, or even rice husks. BlueFire Ethanol of Irvine, California, however, has plans to build a facility later this year that will be able to produce 3 millions gallons of ethanol each year, from trash. That’s right, your unwanted waste might one day find its way into your fuel tank.

The largest retailer of consumer electronics has just started a trial e-waste recycling program in over 117 stores across 8 states.

All landfill trash decomposes over time and releases methane, a greenhouse gas, into the air. At landfills across the county, new technology is being developed to capture that gas, treat it and send it where it can be used as fuel. At Three Rivers Landfill in South Carolina, landfill gas travels 17 miles through a pipeline to Kimberly Clark"s Beech Island facility, where it helps to power the manufacturing plant.

To battle the e-waste problem, the U.S. Postal Service is working with recycling company Clover Technologies Group to develop a free national collection program for small electronics.