The next time you throw away your computer or laptop, do you wonder what happens to it? This video tracks e-waste from places all over North America to e-waste brokers in Hong Kong who know how to circumvent laws and send e-waste to China where women and children burn mountains of computers. Hard drives with [...]
Mary Crowley is an ocean defender but she needs your help to destroy an island. A big plastic island in the Pacific Ocean twice the size of Texas and a whole lot of other places. To this end she has started Project Kaisei which involved sending researchers and boats to this area to sample the [...]
El Paso Water Utilities (EPWU) plans to incorporate purple pipes as part of its upcoming projects. EPWU has been delivering reclaimed water throughout the community since 1963 and is steadily building its network of purple pipes to recycle water for industrial and agricultural purposes. Now, for $1.24 you can drive up to one of their [...]
Have you ever been printing something and instead of two pages the printer churns out ten? Just because of some silly margin or something. All that good recycled paper gone to waste! Time to try GreenPrint (www.printgreener.com) which allows you to quickly deselect pictures or extra text before printing, telling you exactly how many pages [...]
Vancouver based designer Natalie Purschwitz has started a new challenge for herself – to make everything that she wears for a whole year! She’s made everything from her underwear to her shoes and in the process she has transformed (recycled) clothing into other garments as she needs them. Check out her blog and see what [...]
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There are trillions of cigarette butts out there on beaches around the world; tossed or planted by smokers. 95% of cigarette filters are made of cellulose acetate. Cellulose acetate fibers are thinner than sewing thread, white, and packed tightly together to create a filter; they can look like cotton. The problem is cellulose acetate is [...]
For your entertainment, I came across this clever ad from Encorp Pacific (Canada) to promote recycling. Encorp Pacific was established in 1994 and has many Return-It locations around BC that recycle beverage containers.
Lots of people have shown interest in recycling hotel soaps, and I received a comment from Paul Till of Clean The World, a non-profit organization based in Florida. Living in such a touristy area with a high concentration of hotels, he and Shawn Seipler decided to approach local hotels with a focus on repackaging unused [...]
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