Waste Management

Dog Waste

Students Use Dog Waste to Light Park

Posted on May, 2012 Categories: Biofuels , Check It Out! , Communities , Energy , Featured , Leisure , Organic Waste , Parks & Recreation , Waste Management Every day, about 200 dogs and their owners visit the Cosmo dog park in Gilbert, Ariz. When they go home, they leave behind about eight cubic yards of dog waste, plastic bottles, bags and other trash. Read more
E-waste

460 Million Pounds of Consumer Electronics Products Responsibly Recycled

Posted on April, 2012 Categories: Business , Consumer , E-Waste , Featured , Waste Management The Consumer Electronics Association recently reported that the consumer electronics  industry dramatically increased its recycling in 2011, advancing the goals set by the eCycling Leadership Initiative. Read more
City of Bellingham

Roadway with Recycled Toilets is World's First Official 'Greenroad'

Posted on April, 2012 Categories: Building Green , Communities , Featured , Infrastructure , Recycling , Transportation , Waste Management Greenroads, a rating system developed at the University of Washington to promote sustainable roadway construction, awarded its first official certification to a Bellingham project that incorporates porcelain from recycled toilets. Read more
Green Toys

Helping to Develop Green Toy Standards

Posted on March, 2012 Categories: Business , Check It Out! , Consumer , Recycling , Waste Management , Water Management Catherine Wilt, director of the Center for Clean Products at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment, is working to make toys healthier, safer, and more environmentally-friendly. Read more
RECYCLING COUNCIL OF ONTARIO - 200,000 Ontario Elementary

Students Unite in the Waste Minimization Fight

Posted on January, 2012 Categories: Communities , Featured , Recycling , Waste Management For some, the concept of sorting and weighing lunch waste might seem like a sticky, smelly nuisance.  Not so for the 200,000 Ontario elementary students that participated in Recycling Council of Ontario's 2011 Waste-Free Lunch Challenge. Read more
Batteries

Consumers Recycling More Batteries

Posted on January, 2012 Categories: Consumer , Featured , Recycling , Waste Management More and more consumers are recycling their batteries according to Call2Recycle®, the North American leader in consumer battery recycling. Recently it announced a 13.1 percent increase in Read more
Coffee Beans

Using Coffee to Brew up Energy

Posted on December, 2011 Categories: Biofuels , Business , Check It Out! , Energy , Energy Savings , Organic Waste , Waste Management The Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) at the University of North Dakota recently announced  it is leading a project to develop an efficient renewable electricity technology for coffee-processing plants. Read more
Green Tires

Green Tires May Be Available Within Next Few Years

Posted on December, 2011 Categories: Consumer , Featured , Recycling , Transportation , Waste Management Motorists may be driving on the world's first "green" tires within the next few years, as partnerships between tire companies and biotechnology firms make it possible to produce key raw materials for tires from sugar Read more
Circuit

Self-Healing Electronics Could Work Longer and Reduce Waste

Posted on December, 2011 Categories: Business , Consumer , E-Waste , Featured , Waste Management When one tiny circuit within an integrated chip cracks or fails, the whole chip – or even the whole device – is a loss. But what if it could fix itself, and fix itself so fast that the user never knew there was a problem? Read more
Mushroom Kit-2T

Grow-At-Home Mushroom Kit

Posted on December, 2011 Categories: Check It Out! , Consumer , Organic Waste , Waste Management The Back to the Roots' grow-at-home mushroom kit lets you grow up to 1 1/2 lbs of gourmet, tasty oyster mushrooms in as little as 10 days...right from the box.  The soil inside is 100% recycled coffee grounds - safe & sustainable.  Inspired by the idea of producing local, fresh food from what was an urban waste stream, Read more
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