Recently my apartment complex left a note on my door that our community bicycle cages were being cleaned out of all abandoned bikes. They requested that I come to the office to get a tag for my bike so it didn't end up in the dumpster. Dumpster? Really? I ... keep reading
Written by Raegan Payne last month, about Recycling, Transport (2 comments)
Editor's Note: This post by Trish Smith comes to us from Green Student U, a blog-style site that introduces today's students to a wide variety of global environmental issues by recognizing college campus green initiatives and personal success stories, as well as how the world is being shaped ... keep reading
Written by Green Student U last month, about Air Quality, Clean Technologies, Computing, Consumerism, Design, Energy Saving, Recycling (1 comment)
In honor of America Recycles Day, an explanation of how recycling really works. Just remember, there is a reason that Recycle is the last of the three R's, far behind Reduce and Reuse. Treehugger had some strong words about recycling, calling it a fraud and a scam. Still, it ... keep reading
Written by Leslie Berliant last month, about Recycling
Los Angeles is trying to catch up to its green giant neighbor to the north, San Francisco , by implementing a food recycling program. Small problem: some of L.A.'s residents don't seem overly cheery about the thought of sorting food scraps. "You want me to have a meal ... keep reading
Written by Raegan Payne in October, about Food, Recycling
Editor's Note: By Sarah Mott from Henry Cort Community College. Sarah is one of the top 100 ‘green-agers' selected to take part in npower's Climate Cops programme and receive coaching from an array of green experts. The latest instalment of the £20 million programme kicked off last week ... keep reading
Written by Sarah Mott in October, about Children and Families, Climate Change, Education, Environment & Wildlife, Recycling (1 comment)
The other day I walked into the Hard Core Industrial Offender (HIO) lunch room to see employee A wandering between the recently new chrome coffee maker and the brand-spanking-new chrome espresso machine. She was aimlessly turning this way and that with a plastic bottle filled cardboard box in her arms ... keep reading
Written by Industry Insider in October, about Industry, Recycling
"Sesame Street" icon Oscar the Grouch turned green in 1970 (his original color was orange). This is his theme song, "I Love Trash", penned by the immortal Jeff Moss (who also wrote "Rubber Ducky"). Considering the rate of trash made by society, how even the beaches are filling up with ... keep reading
Written by Rena Sherwood in September, about Children and Families, Pollution, Recycling
Editor's Note: Excerpted from Chapter 7, Not in Our Backyard: Exporting Electronic Waste from High Tech Trash: Digital Devices, Hidden Toxics, and Human Health, by Elizabeth Grossman. Copyright ©2006 by Island Press. Excerpted by permission of Island Press. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced ... keep reading
Written by Elizabeth Grossman in September, about Pollution, Recycling
Guiyu in China and Chennai in India are already well-publicized representations of the global neighbourhood's most ghastly e-waste dump sites - where young and old stake a paltry living out of decomposing remnants of the developed world's obsolete digital dreams, with dire health and environmental consequences. But guess who ... keep reading
Written by Shom Teoh in September, about Computing, Consumerism, Environmental Disasters, Health, Industry, Pollution, Recycling
"Give me your tired, your poor ...Your wretched refuse of your teeming shore..." - From the base of the Statue of Liberty Susan Strasser's 1999 Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash could have been titled America & Trash: A Love Story. The book focuses on America's relationship to ... keep reading
Written by Rena Sherwood in September, about Consumerism, Pollution, Recycling
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