Recycling

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Taking On the Plastic Vortex: Project Kaisei

Mary Liz Thomson | Posted 09.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Birds, The World Federation of Recycling, Measuring Toxins, Doug Woodring, Recycling, The Plastic Vortex, Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch, Fish, Oceans, Project Kaisei, Green News

Discovered 10 years ago, The Garbage Patch or Plastic Vortex, is a huge area of floating plastic garbage, stretching hundreds of square miles northwest of Hawaii in the ocean's No Man's Land.

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Recycle More, Earn Stuff: Incentive-Based Recycling Comes to Chicago

Christine Escobar | Posted 09.05.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Green Parent Chicago, Chicago Blue Cart Recycling, Recycling, Incentive Based Recycling, Chicago RecycleBank, Green Living, Recyclebank, Chicago News

Under the program, households will be encouraged to increase their recycling to receive rewards based on the amount of recyclables they generate

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Recycling Pays in NYC

Wendy Gordon | Posted 08.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Recycling, Cost Competitive, Trash, Landfills, CO2 Emission Reduction, Global Warming, Waste Prevention, Green News

The existing recycling program in NYC reduced the city's global warming emissions by 500,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide; the equivalent of taking 338,000 cars off the road each year.

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Eco Etiquette: Roommate Recycling Woes; Guests vs. Mosquitoes

Jennifer Grayson | Posted 08.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Recycling, Plastic Bottles, Eco Etiquette, Natural Insect Repellents, Green Living, Bottled Water, Eco Advice, Green News

Dear Eco Etiquette: I have a roommate who insists on buying bottled water. I've sent her various statistics and pictures about how harmful the produc...

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13 Trash-to-Craft Ideas

thedailygreen.com | Posted 08.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Recycling, Reusing Trash, Reusing Materials, Green Living, Reducing Materials, Creative Trash Uses, Green News

Reusing commonly tossed items is not only a great way to save on cash, its also one easiest ways to be green. According to the EPA, reuse can help red...

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Why Quality Matters, Even in Tough Times

Jennifer Grayson | Posted 08.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Consumerism, Organic Food, Budget Shopping, Recession, Reducing Waste, Recycling, Spending, Living News

If every time we pulled out our wallets, we stopped to think about whether or not we really needed something we might have more money left over for things that are truly valuable.

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A Kick in the Career: My Interview with Sustainable Dave

Thomas Stern | Posted 08.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Composting, Plastic Bottles, Recycling, Sustainability, Environmental Education, Green Living, Corporations, Green News

A conversation with someone who clearly walks the talk.

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Green News Report - July 14, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 08.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Nuclear Power, Swine Flu, Renewable Energy, Pollution, Coal, Los Angeles, Coal-Fired Plants, Recycling, Bush Administration, Smog, Recycled Materials, China Energy, Sustainability, Nuclear-Meltdown, Sustainable Seafood, China, Green News

IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Bush smacked down on smog; Texans told to conserve; Naked & recycled .... PLUS: The 50th Anniversary of the nation's first...

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Egypt's Green Live in Garbage

Olivia Sterns | Posted 08.08.2009 | World

Read More: Recycling, Green Jobs, Cairo, Egypt, Swine Flu, Africa, Green, Green News, Trash, Green Living, Development, Garbage, Zabaleen, Sanitation, World News

The efficiency rate of the Zabaleen is almost 85%, rivaling the best of Western urban recycling models. Even still, the state seems intent on wiping them out.

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David de Rothschild's Fantastic Plastic Bottle Boat

Grist | Posted 08.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Recycling, Recycle Plastic, Recycle, Recycled Materials, Plastic Bottles, Environment, Green, Plastic, Reuse, Reuse Plastic Bottles, David De Rothschild, Green News

The Plastiki is the latest project of British environmentalist and polar adventurer David de Rothschild, the 31-year-old scion of the famous banking f...

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Storming The Projects: Public Housing Residents Preach Recycling Gospel

nytimes.com | MIREYA NAVARRO | Posted 08.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Recycling, Environment, Explaining Recycling, Environmental Advocacy, Public Housing, Green News

Proselytizing on the issue [of recycling] in housing projects is an enormous challenge but crucial, environmentalists say, given the incentive to cut ...

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Tips for Raising Environmentally Friendly Kids

Jeana Lee Tahnk | Posted 08.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Recycling, Clean Energy, Pollution, Parenting Tips, Michelle Obama, Climate Change, Global Warming, Green News

It is up to us to pass the knowledge along to our children and ensure that they start, from a much younger age than we did, adapting their lives to take care of the environment.

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Everyone Serves

Jonathan Greenblatt | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Recycling, Google, All for Good, President Obama, Obama Service Initiative, Pierre Omidyar, Obama Service, Volunteerism, Politics News

All for Good is a free, open-source application that allows Americans to search and share service opportunities, inspired by President Obama's call to service.

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The Nation's Most Ambitious Recycling Law

Gavin Newsom | Posted 07.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Recycling, Green Jobs, California, Gavin Newsom, Green, Environment, Food, Green Living, Pollution, San Francisco, Green News

Today at the Farmer's Market in front of San Francisco's iconic Ferry Building I am signing the nation's first mandatory composting law.

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City Test-Driving Recycling Bins With Advertising

Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 07.20.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Recycling, Chicago City Council, Chicago Recycling, Sadhu Johnston, Free Green Can, Chicago News

Chicago already has more than 2,000 bus shelters and sidewalk billboards that carry advertising and generate sorely needed revenue. How about ad-bear...

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Are Rock Festivals Really Green? VOTE!

Huffington Post | Ami Cholia | Posted 07.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Recycling, Compost, Summer, Recycled Materials, Rock Festival, Green, Environment, Music, Poll, Green News

Rock festivals are cranking up their green quotient this summer from Bonnaroo to High Sierra Music Festival. But even Bonnaroo, which won the Outstand...

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Google London Removes Employee Trash Cans To Promote Recycling

Mother Nature Network | Posted 07.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Three R's, Recycling, Google Trash Cans, Green Business, Reducing Waste, Google, Green News

Google's removal of employee trash cans is an ingenious idea. It costs nothing for a business to remove the item and direct employees to a centralized...

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BOX OFFICE: Workplace To Be Built From Recycled Shipping Containers

Fast Company | Posted 06.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Recycling, Recycled Office, Green Design, Recycled Shipping Containers, Green News

We've profiled homes made out of recycled shipping containers before, but Providence, Rhode Island's upcoming Box Office project is a more ambitious a...

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Brooklyn To Get A Putt-Putt Course With Repurposed Obstacles

nytimes.com | TIM McKEOUGH | Posted 06.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Recycling, Mini Golf, Golf, Green Entertainment, Reuse, Brooklyn-New York, New York, Green News

The course, which opens for the season June 6, occupies a lot at 12 Wyckoff Avenue that was a former dumping ground for everything from broken toilets...

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What Will You Do With Your Blue Marble?

Wallace J Nichols | Posted 06.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Recycling, Environmentalism, Ocean Day, Pollution, Ocean, Green News

Do you know where to get the best local, sustainable seafood? Do you clean up plastic litter, even if it's not yours and no one is watching? In other words, do you live blue?

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Jeez, This Place Is A Dump (PHOTO)

Getty Images | Posted 06.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Recycling, Waste, San Francisco, Green Technology, California, San Francisco-California, Green News

SAN FRANCISCO - MAY 12: Trucks dump garbage into a pit at Sunset Scavenger May 12, 2009 in San Francisco, California. San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom...

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WATCH: The Death of the Planet May Be Caused by Ass Wiping

Lee Camp | Posted 06.11.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Recycling, Recycled Toilet Paper, Toilet Paper, Green Living, Comedy News

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Media Catches the Boat to Pacific Garbage Patch

Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 05.31.2009 | Green

Read More: Recycling, North Pacific Gyre, Recycle, Pacific-Garbage-Patch, Plastic, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Plastic Bottles, Plasticgyre, Green News

The "away" of our throwaway society turns out to be, in part, a giant patch of broken plastic bits swirling around the Pacific Gyres in an area that has been dubbed "The Great Pacific Garbage Patch."

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Pizza Box Is Easier To Reuse And Recycle (VIDEO)

Posted 05.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Recycling, Pizza, Paper Waste, Eating Matters, Waste, Pizza Box of the Future, Green Box, Green Technology, Paper, Green News

Simple changes in manufacturing can help consumers go green. Here's a great example: By adding some perforations to a pizza box, it becomes multi-use...

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Federal Bailout Won't Make A Dent in Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Problems

Brooke-Sidney Gavins | Posted 05.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Folsom Dam, Salmon, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, San-Joaquin-River, Water Recycling, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sacramento River, Red Bluff Diversion Dam, Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, Interior Secretary, American Rivers, Water Reuse, Ken-Salazar-Interior-Secretary, Recycling, Endangered Salmon, Environmental Defense Fund, Ken Salazar, Endangered River, Fisheries, Battle Creek Salmon Steelhead, Farming, Contra Costa, California, Contra Costa Canal, Sacramento, San Joaquin Valley, Water Scarcity, Federal Stimulus, Endangered-Fish, California's Central Valley, Ken Salazar and Interior Department, Water, Endangered Species, Endangered Species Act, Green News

The Delta, which provides water to nearly two-thirds of all Californians and is suffering from a three year drought, may not have a federal bailout after all.

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