July 29, 2008
Samsung is a brand known in the electronics world but not in printers. But while they may be known for monitors or even mobile phones, their product line also has a few of these printers in tow. In fact, to jumpstart their eco-friendly efforts, they are offering a new trade-in program (TIP) that will allow their customers to trade-in their old laser printers valued at most at $200 and then get a new one.
Not a bad deal if you want to get these n
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July 24, 2008
We have seen various alternative ways to create energy and this one is something worth looking into. From the usual solar energy panels to hydrogen power, imagine energy being generated from potato waste. Now that is something.
In my previous post I already put out a post that some groups in the world today are looking to transform their trash to energy. While there were no specifics, this is because there are a lot of different waste categories
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July 23, 2008
What do you do with excess garbage that landfills can no longer accommodate? For most, the immediate answer would be to recycle them. But for Ineos, turning waste into fuel is similar to turning trash to gold.
By 2011, this is what Ineos predicts to happen. They are planning to put up a large scale waste to energy facility which will ultimately produce bioethanol and help address the growing fuel problem the world is experiencing at the moment.
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May 21, 2008
How long does trash last?
Well, I believe that glass bottle can be recycled easily but it does take 1 million years for it to dispose itself.
Anything plastic? Possibly 500 or more years.
Not recycling yet? Well, you should even if you don’t live in a city that poorly supports recycling.
Glass Bottle—One Million Years
Okay, we don’t really know whether a glass bottle takes a million years, two million years, or a million years and
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April 28, 2008
This has been a very long time coming, it the green basket ball, well actually its black and is eco friendly because it uses forty per cent recycled rubber. Now that may not seem to be much, but surely anything that is recycled is better than nothing.
However it has been estimated that when seventy of these balls are purchased, then that will be the equivalent of a car tyre, now that really does makes sense because tyres and land fill sites just
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March 22, 2008
Whether you run a restaurant or a dry cleaner, there are things you can do to lower your carbon footprint. It all starts by taking an assessment of your enterprise and looking around at your various departments. You can do a complete overhaul, or you can start small and build from there.
Educate yourself on green issues and research possible solutions and providers. When you go green it imparts a message of sustainability that will grab the inter
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March 11, 2008
It seems the UK have a surplus of serviceable yet out dated computers and despite the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive, which should see most electrical items disposed of using the manufacturers own disposal facilities, it is estimated that some twelve and half million older laptops and PC’s have not been recycled or reused.
What’s worse is what is actually happening to these old machines. Twenty five per cent are
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January 1, 2008
One thing that local governments have to address once a new year starts is the fact of making detailed itineraries of their plan for the coming year. The year has just started and for some counties, the best way to detail their projects for the year is how to manage and take out the trash.
Indeed, all countries have to deal with trash and waste management. It has been something that has been going on for years now. While some find the usual lan
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December 21, 2007
Its funny how things that we take for granted are not environmentally friendly, like umbrellas, they use materials that are man made etc, however there is an alternative and one that is biodegradable too.
The frame and handle are made from bamboo and the part that stop the rain from soaking you is made from a biodegradable plastic material made from renewable resources and will totally degrade in a landfill in just over a year.
It comes in two
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December 12, 2007
Now instead of them going to the land fill and taking hundreds of years to fade away, these have been made into something useful and indeed something worthwhile of begin called a design piece.
This one has been thought up by the Berlin based lighting designer Stuart Haygarth, who doe a good job here although from the photo it to hard to actually see what it really looks like in the flesh, or in the plastic as it would be.
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December 6, 2007
This is a neat little idea that sees old long player records, softened and then shaped into a bowl before it is allowed to cool down and set into the new shape that it is in.
There are a couple of points to remember, these bowls are definitely not microwave oven proof, oven proof, should not have hot food put in them and generally should be used for fruit and potato chips.
Priced at $29
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November 19, 2007
A new article from CNN delves into the computer recycling trade, and brings up solid but sordid details. For example, some recyclers are exporting old computers to foreign countries where they simply sit in overseas landfills un-recycled. OMG!
It is important to research a prospective recycler and find out more about the operation and its recycing process? Where do the computers go? Are they refurbished? What about computers that cannot be
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November 18, 2007
A recent UN University study into electronic waste has suggested that by the year 2020 there will be 12.3 million tonnes of this type of waste being dumped in the European Union every year. That is a lot of waste and will take up a lot of space.
But fortunately there is a solution to this problem, the European eco TV project is in place to look into this problems and have come up with an astonishing but pretty cool way of disposing of this mat
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November 1, 2007
All efforts to help minimize waste and guide people to turn to recycling when it comes to managing their trash is evident. However, the world needs to note that their rising increase in the amount of waste that they need to dispose is slowly nearing limits and the overall victims would be the rest of the inhabitants of earth.
As a means of determining how much waste each individual is producing, this new “chip and bin” has been developed to
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October 18, 2007
How long does it take for a milk carton to decompose in a landfill? How about a plastic soda bottle? Can anyone guess how long it takes for styrofoam to waste away into Earth? Great article from Great Green Shoes sparked this post, and subsequent contest. Big Clue Just Revealed!
I’m gonna be posting the results in an entry next week. But i wanna see what responses i get. Hit the comments section for your guesses. Maybe we should do a conte
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September 7, 2007
If you haven’t noticed, a lot of people have taken the initiative of drinking bottled water rather than from the faucet as of late. Tap water is no longer safe as it was before and people can only look at themselves to blame.
Throwing out waste carelessly together with lackadaisical disposal of toxic waste by companies has made it totally unhealthy for people to rely on the usual tap water to drink. A lot of diseases and health risks are sure
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September 5, 2007
Here’s a cool eco-friendly company that will haul your furniture away not in just any trucks, but trucks powered by Bio-Diesel!
We are working with EcoHaul to find solutions for our own Keetsa store’s surplus furniture.
EcoHaul continues to set the standard for socially and environmentally
responsible waste removal and disposal solutions. Specializing in reuse,
recycling, and donation, EcoHaul serves Residential and Business customer
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August 26, 2007
Could it be possible to use landfills to whittle down the issue of greenhouse gases today? Well for the Australian people, this may be another development that can help contribute to the ever growing issue of greenhouse gases and emissions today.
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August 15, 2007
All it needs is a simple phone call and practically anyone can contribute towards the world-based green effort that is being solicited today. Garbage and waste problems have been plaguing most parts of the world and the best way to help resolve the crisis is to call-in some concerns pertaining to the problem at hand.
Such was the alternative solution that people in countries like the Philippines had done. All it took was to inform the proper gro
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August 8, 2007
It is easy to declare that anyone can contribute and do their part towards the drive for a greener world today. While some have a hard time believing that this can be achieved, joint hands from various parts of the world can help make this premier and common goal happen.
Many have been too busy wondering at how the events came down to having to resort to doing sacrifices and avoiding usual vices such as smoking today. These are the main contri
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