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Book Review: Designing for Re-use, The Life of Consumer Packaging - TreeHugger

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Book Review: Designing for Re-use, The Life of Consumer Packaging

BBC Brings London's E-waste Dumping Issue to the Air - GOOD

Alicia Capetillo — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

BBC's Inside Out describes the feature thus: London's passion for new TVs and electrical gadgets is having repercussions thousands of miles away. To avoid paying for proper disposal in the UK, criminals ship containers of electrical waste and illegally dump it in Africa. They call it the Sodom and Gomorra slum in Ghana—hazardous electrical waste dumped as far as the eye can see. Its source is London's banks, councils, hospitals and even a police force. It is hard to imagine this in England, where you can be fined for not sorting your recycling box properly. ...

SunChips Stacks First Compostable Bags on Canadian Shelves - Resource Efficiency | GreenBiz.com

GreenerDesign Staff — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

For the launch of its fully-compostable snack bag, Frito Lay Canada is working with local composting programs to ensure that new SunChips bags are handled properly when disposed.

Breakthrough polymers promise versatile, immortal plastics—a good thing - Gristmill

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

If you want to build a sustainable street, neighborhood, city, or world, I have one word for you: plastics. The facts about plastic have become part of the green liturgy. More than 30 million tons of the stuff is dumped into the municipal waste stream each year in the United States. Disposable water bottles have become the Hummer of plastics—a petroleum-fueled symbol of extravagant waste, a F-You to the planet with some 13 billion of them ending up in landfills, littering landscapes and befouling oceans. But the reality is that even if you pried every Evian and Dasani bottle from every clammy sweaty hand, we’d still live in a plastic world. It’s a component in just about every product we use, hence the ...

Green Chemistry Breakthrough in Plastics Recycling - ENS

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Green Chemistry Breakthrough in Plastics Recycling

BBC's Inside Out Airs Expose on The Impacts of UK's e-Waste on Developing Countries - TreeHugger

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

BBC's Inside Out Airs Expose on The Impacts of UK's e-Waste on Developing Countries

Gowanus Canal goes Superfund - Environmental News Network

dotdotdotdotdotdotdotdotdotdotdotdotdotdotdotdot — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Last week, the Gowanus Canal, a 1.8-mile, 100-foot wide waterway in northwest Brooklyn which empties into Upper New York Bay, was added to the National Priorities List (NPL) otherwise known Superfund by the Environmental Protection Agency. The new designation means that the EPA will now move ahead to clean up this derelict canal and to compel PRP's (principal responsible parties) to perform the cleanup or reimburse the government for EPA-led action. The EPA is now locked in to what may be a tough and perhaps a long dragged-out process of restoring the Gowanus, while forcing cooperation from PRP’s and catering to often sensitive local community interests.

Proper Waste Disposal (PHOTOS): How To Recycle Those Trickier Items - Green on HuffingtonPost.com

Gazelle Emami — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

While recycling statistics show the U.S. making little strides every year, there are certain items that still fall in the "what the hell am I...

How Cisco's Packaging Diet Saves $24 Million a Year - Business Operations | GreenBiz.com

Claudia Girrbach — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

The technology giant has implemented three best practices as part of a sustainability pilot project that are netting huge savings in materials and transportation costs as well as waste management.

Peerless Coffee Brews More Efficient Waste Management - Resource Efficiency | GreenBiz.com

Jonathan Bardelline — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

The Oakland-based company has spent the last 10 years finding ways to recycle its waste, use less packaging and testing reusable delivery crates.

Robot With Laser Vision Sorts Plastics, Boosts Recycling - TreeHugger

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Robot With Laser Vision Sorts Plastics, Boosts Recycling

Alexandra Paul: FedEx Office Greenwashing - Green on HuffingtonPost.com

Alexandra Paul — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Not only does the one place that deals in more paper than any other within a 10 mile radius not recycle, they pretend they do by having containers that say "recycle."

Exposed: Chevron's Cover-up of Gross Environmental Abuses in Ecuador - AlterNet

Cameron Scott, AlterNet — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Chevron claims it's not responsible for dumping 18 billion gallons of industrial wastewater into the Amazon. A local leader says otherwise.

Burgerville's New Corn-Based Cups Complete Green Packaging Project - Resource Efficiency | GreenBiz.com

GreenerDesign Staff — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

By now using cups and lids that are compostable, fast food chain Burgerville has switched all possible packaging to compostable versions.

Tesco, Nestle Among UK Firms Planning Big Packaging Cuts - Resource Efficiency | GreenBiz.com

GreenerDesign Staff — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

The second phase of a program for reducing the impact of packaging in the U.K. hopes to lower packaging-related carbon by 10 percent by 2012.

Peerless Coffee Brews More Efficient Waste Management - Resource Efficiency | GreenBiz.com

Jonathan Bardelline — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

The Oakland-based company has spent the last 10 years finding ways to recycle its waste, use less packaging and testing reusable delivery crates.

Exposed: Chevron's Cover-up of Gross Environmental Abuses in Eucador - AlterNet.org: War on Iraq

Cameron Scott, AlterNet — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Chevron claims it's not responsible for dumping 18 billion gallons of industrial wastewater into the Amazon. A local leader says otherwise.

Food Waste: What Is The Environmental Toll Of Discarded Food In America? - Green on HuffingtonPost.com

Gazelle Emami — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Food waste is a huge issue in America, especially in light of the growing divide between the profligate rich and the hungry poor. According to...

David Kirby: Is Manure a Hazardous Substance? Blanche Lincoln Says "No" - Green on HuffingtonPost.com

David Kirby — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Pro-Agribusiness members of Congress are working to make sure spilled animal waste from industrial farms is exempted from federal Superfund clean-up rules.

Jill Richardson: The Sludge Hits the Fan in San Francisco - Green on HuffingtonPost.com

Jill Richardson — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

San Francisco had the audacity to label waste sludge as "organic" and give it away to home gardeners and even school gardens. The city's actions are outrageous, but they serve as a wake-up call.

Gabrielle Anwar Lives the Simple Life, Meryl Streep's Message for Moms, and More - TreeHugger

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Gabrielle Anwar Lives the Simple Life, Meryl Streep's Message for Moms, and More

The Impact of Food Waste on Climate Change (And Just About Everything Else) - TreeHugger

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

The Impact of Food Waste on Climate Change (And Just About Everything Else)

Obama Administration Files Request to Revoke Yucca Mountain License - Commondreams.org Newswire

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 5, 2010 Friends of The Earth “I am pleased that President Obama is following through on his pledge to close Yucca Mountain. The revocation of Yucca Mountain’s license application will finally end over twenty years of bad policy and wasted spending on a project that was doomed to fail from the start. “ ...

Kerry Trueman: Our Toxic Waterways: Flushing Away Our Future? - Green on HuffingtonPost.com

Kerry Trueman — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Big River Trailer from Wicked Delicate Films on Vimeo. Frustrated swimming pool owners in thousands of backyards across this country have posted a sign...

Outrage in San Francisco: City Gives Residents 'Organic' Compost Containing Toxic Sewage Sludge - AlterNet

Jill Richardson, AlterNet — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

The city's actions are a wake-up call that the entire nation regularly consumes foods grown on fields fertilized with sludge.