Pedal-Powered Recycling and Trash Pick-Up
Recycling does create energy savings overall, but if you watch those big trucks rolling through your neighborhood on pick-up day, you probably realize that there may be even more efficient ways to handle the collection of these materials. A couple in Northampton, Massachusetts, has found one: pick up those recyclables by bike.
Alex Jarrett and Ruthy [...]
Post-Consumer Film Recycling Hit Record High in 2008
Plastic bag and film recycling in the U.S. reached a record high in 2008, recovering about 832,394,000 pounds of post-consumer film, according to a new study from the American Chemistry Council.
The report, “National Post-Consumer Recycled Plastic Bags and Film Report” (PDF), conducted by Moore Recycling Associates, finds that plastic bag and film recovery increased 28 [...]
Starbucks Sponsors Cup Design Contest to Reduce Waste
Starbucks is sponsoring the Betacup design competition that is looking for a solution to unrecyclable paper coffee cups, reports Core77.
According to Betacup, 58 billion paper coffee cups are thrown away, unrecycled each year.
Starbucks is sponsoring the competition as part of its target goal to supply 100 percent of its coffee in reusable or recyclable [...]
Mislabeled Plastic Bottles Vex PET Recyclers
These days, almost every plastic bottle indicates that it’s recyclable. As far as two plastics recycling associations are concerned, that’s just the problem.
A preponderance of bottles falsely labeled as PET or PET-compatible is causing problems for recycling companies, reports PlasticsNews.
The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers and the National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR) are [...]
HP’s Strategies to Increase Efficient Use of Paper
As a major paper user and vendor, HP has greater influence than most other computer companies to positively impact its customers’ corporate paper usage, according to a new sustainability update from Technology Business Research (TBR).
The sustainability update covers HP’s two sustainable paper policies: one for efficient internal paper usage and the other for efficient customer [...]
AB InBev to Reduce Water Use 30%, Energy 10%
Anheuser-Busch InBev is putting in place a set of three-year goals for water conservation, recycling and energy use.
The effort, which is part of the brewing conglomerate’s Better World initiative, would have the company reduce its water use, as a proportion of production, by 30 percent (compared to 2007 levels), according to a press release.
AB InBev, [...]
AB InBev to Reduce Water Use 30%, Energy 10%
Anheuser-Busch InBev is putting in place a set of three-year goals for water conservation, recycling and energy use.
The effort, which is part of the brewing conglomerate’s Better World initiative, would have the company reduce its water use, as a proportion of production, by 30 percent (compared to 2007 levels), according to a press release.
AB InBev, [...]
Burt’s Bees Goes Dumpster Diving in Waste Reduction Education
Burt’s Bees shows how it taught employees about waste reduction by going digging through their own dumpsters.
Nix it or Fix it: a how to guide for e-waste
Read the full post at Practically Green.
I have a cast-iron tub in the garage that contains one old computer monitor dumped on our lawn by some jerk last spring, a broken clock radio, and a broken VCR. Inside, I have three plastic bins filled with functioning, but technically obsolete cameras, old cell phones, video recorders, [...]
Cool Green Morning: Wednesday, March 10
Read on for your regular dose of the day’s coolest, greenest news:
- Watching “The Oprah Winfrey Show” might make you greener. There is actually science behind this. (Planet Green)
- A bike commuter does the math and finds that a year of regular rides keeps 3,260 pounds of carbon out of the atmosphere. (Treehugger)
- How green is the dentist working on your pearly whites? (GreenBiz)
- Big news in plastic recycling: scientists have developed an organic catalyst that can “build up and break down plastics over and over again“– and on the cheap, too. (The Vine)
- Your diet soda habit might not be so good for the planet. In related news, I now feel like a horrible person. (Huffington Post Green)
