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Trash - the new gold
With the cost of raw materials on the rise trash is no longer a throwaway matter. At first the cost of recycling for many councils was greater than just sending to landfill, the argument for recycling being more... Toronto plans binning ban
This is shocking. Toronto officials are planning to ban homeless people from taking bottles and cans from recycling bins as part of a new recyling plan to be rolled out in the fall.Why? Apparently because it loses the city money and is considered "stealing" from taxpayers.... Ask for Tap (Water not Beer): Act Green in August (via Green Thing)
Last week I looked at my overflowing recycling bin and thought to myself what's wrong with this picture?The answer was too much plastic of which a good amount was bottled water. How much money do I spent weekly/ monthly on the stuff. I could not tell? That's why when I... California Green Law News - July 08
{ As reported by Californians Against Waste } . PVC packaging phase out - "The California Ocean Protection Council, an organization created by Governor Schwarzenegger, called for the banning of vinyl chloride... Recycling in Washington, DC - What You See May Not Always Be What's Happening
In the District of Columbia residents and businesses are required to recycle paper, bottles and cans. And recycling is very popular -- residents enthusiastically separate their recyclable material from their regular... Scavengers: the Good, the Bad, the Ugly!
Scavengers or scalliwags? Emotive words for something so humdrum! Scavengers: We think of scavengers as being dirty, smelly kids who scramble around on huge dumps of toxic waste in search of anything that... Old Denver Airport Runway finds Second Life as Kitchen Countertops
In the Remake Remodel sphere, a couple of Denver based companies are finding a Second Life for concrete from the runway of the now defunct Stapleton Airport.Immix turns it into countertops as for Recrete Materials they recycle it into new buildings and projects. Calling... Wastepicker Children Face Discrimination
*****AdvocacyNetNews Bulletin 144June 20, 2008***** Wastepicker Children Face Discrimination from Private School in India June 20, 2008, Delhi, India: In a graphic example of the deep discrimination that... Best Buy Tries Out 'E-Cycling' Program
" SAN FRANCISCO — Under pressure to help dispose some of the electronic waste it helped create, Best Buy Co. is testing a free program that will offer consumers a convenient way to ensure that millions... Save Your Green by Going Green
You can actually save money and the earth?Eco Mommy Elizabeth Rogers shows five ways to make a change while holding on to your cash. Waste-Free Lunch: You can save $250 a year and as much weight in waste as the average 9-year-old (50 pounds)! Try... A Green Apple A Day Keeps Global Warming At Bay
Earth Day is next Tuesday (April 22), but celebrations are starting to kick off this weekend to help bring awareness to the potential state of our planet.The Green Apple Festival is happening across America and is a... Hewlett Packard Starts Manufacturing Cartridges From Recycled Plastics
Hewlet Packard, the printer company, has started to manufacture its cartridges from fully recycled old cartridges and water bottles. The technology enabling it is called the ‘closed loops plastic recycling system’ and the eco-friendly cartridges are not any pricier. A...Going Green...Start with Plastic Bags...Tax or No Tax?
Rather than wait for policy changes, I feel that we can Go Green (or at least Greener) with simple steps. One of them is shunning plastic bags. Some stores do not make it easy and others like Whole Foods for example encourage you by crediting 10c for each bag brought back...Program to pick up kitchen scraps, yard waste could come to Boulder
"By the time this summer rolls around, Boulder residents might be able to put their kitchen scraps, grass clippings and yard waste out on the curb to be picked up and made into compost rather than going to the landfill. That's because trash haulers who now have to make two...
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