Environmental Activists Expose Dangers of E-Waste

November 14, 2008, Delhi, India: In the streets of Mustaffabad, a poor quarter of Delhi, children in sandals sit on top of piles of broken glass and twisted metal, smashing computer monitors. Men with blowtorches...

UK Recycling industry slumps

Recycling firms in the UK are feeling the effects of the recession. It was only a few months ago that the industry was booming, and 9 out of 10 town halls were ahead of their recycling targets, and were on track...

Recycling is Bulls**t

This week is National Recycling Week - but is the whole thing just a bunch of bullshit? Does recycling actually make a difference? According to one blogger, no it doesn't. It's just all a big scam to make people...

Clean Your Dry Cleaning! Goodbye Plastic, Hello Green Garmento

While many grocery stores and supermarkets of all stripes are cleaning their act on the plastic bag side, dry cleaners (in the US at least) still consume a prodigious amount of the stuff to shield everything from skirts to shirts.Some practical minds decided to change that...

National Recycling Week

November 10 to 16 is National Recycling Week, all over the world.Started in 1996, this week is a time for communities all across the world to bring recycling into focus, to minimize waste and encourage manage...

15.000 Germans stop french radioactive train; Serbia stops Bulgarian radioac...

Protestors chained to tracks stopping radioactive train Nuclear waste shipment and no place to stay. Gorleben, a city in germany mobilises 300 Farmer tractors against nuclear waste open air storage blocking the...

The Green Prison movement

There is a new movment in Washington state prisons to make them more 'green'; for them to recycle more and in turn, save energy and money. ""It's nice to be out in the elements," said Knowles, 42, stirring...

Explorer Jacques Piccard dies at 86

Jacques Piccard mede his last dive at the age of 52.He came from a daring family that inherits a sense of curiosity and perseverance with respect for others as a guiding principle to its dessendants.  "Swiss...

Town Waste Dumps

The growing cities and towns of Goa are facing typical WASTE MANAGEMENT problem.The municipal councils of every major city of Goa (Panaji, Margao... Ponda) are searching high and low for waste dumping site. Our...

Chill out with our scientist on waste

Scientist Joe Kaplinsky tells us not to waste valuable time sorting out our rubbish. He explains that even if the whole world produced as much garbage as the USA for the next 100 years we could still just bury it...

Massachusetts Looks to Turn Over New Leaf on Pot

"Massachusetts Looks to Turn Over New Leaf on Pot August 14, 2008 O’Ryan Johnson Boston Herald An overwhelming number...

Obana's Wasteful Spending: $686 Million

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Kraft turns cheese waste into energy

Kraft is the latest company to jump on the green bandwagon, and turn part of its waste into a bigger return.Two cheese plants located in New York will turn their used whey into energy that will help to supplant a...

Blasting Air Conditioning at Web 2.0 Expo NY Got me Nursing a Cold

If there is one thing I cannot get used to since I moved to the US it is blasting air conditioning in public spaces (malls, restaurants, offices, you name it) during the summer season or sweltering heat in the winter.One such occurrence happened yesterday while I attended Web...

Universities go green by eliminating cafeteria trays

Universities across the US are starting to ban cafeteria trays.   I found this piece quite interesting, but I’m torn if a ban will actually make a difference.  It seems like the banning of trays...

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