It has to be a great idea! The ink cartridge people Lexmark have got themselves involved in a super green project, which is going to solve the problem of waste ink cartridges being thrown away with the household waste.

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The product that is known as eLumber and it is made out the recycled ink cartridges. This is no gimmick because the product that is made is not only eco friendly itself, it saves trees and for anyone who uses the eLumber they get a good sturdy product that can last anything up to fifty years before it needs replacing.

Source [Eco Geek]

The idea of an eco nightclub would initially sound like a place that would be in the open countryside away from everyone else and with limited facilities, a bit a music festival!

But this club called Surya is nothing like that it is in fact a real nightclub, but with a difference. Walkers and cyclists get in for free and as for the dance floor, well this is something completely different for it has been designed to generate its own electricity when people move on it. To complete the scheme there is a solar energy system and wind turbine with excess electricity being donated to the neighbourhood.

We hear so much about natural disasters these, and how so weak we all are when it comes to helping out the survivors. Yes we send aid and maybe some cash too, but this doesn’t always have the desired effect.

What the people on the ground need is decent accommodation that is dry and safe, without this it makes no difference how many tons of food are sent over. This is why this prototype for a Mobile Green Disaster Shelter, it is easy to build, light weight and eco friendly, it ticks all of the boxes and therefore could be one of the answers.

It is really great when the selection of bags as an alternative for those plastic and bags which are found at the supermarkets these days. We all know that plastic bags are bad for us; they cause all sorts of problems on land and in the sea.

There are three styles of the “Get Hip – Get Green” bag, which are very smart in design and what makes it even better is that money from every sale will go to the Green Ambassadors the children’s environmental group. Dimensions 13.5” H x 12.5”W x 8.5”D each bag is priced at $6.

The whole month may, people in the UK will be able to recycle their old shoes. Shoes are one of the worst items of clothing to recycle as many places will not take them to sell on for one reason or another. But this idea from Terra Plana is simply fantastic.

Just take an old or unwanted pair of shoes into the participating branches, it makes not difference what the make or design is and you will get a £10 ($20) discount, it doesn’t get better than that, this is what the Terra Plana Shoe Amnesty is all about.

In the UK alone, over 330 million pairs of new shoes are purchased each year with a similar amount going to landfill or the incinerator.

In total, 25.5 million tones of household waste is collected each year in the UK, just less than 27% of this is recycled or composted.

UK recycling currently saves between 10 - 15 million tones of greenhouse gases each year, this is equivalent to taking 3.5 million cars off the road.

The locations of our participating stores are as follows:

64 Neal Street

Covent Garden

WC2H 9PQ

124 Bermondsey Street

London Bridge

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