Trash

Outrageous and Excessive Holiday Deals (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | ThienVinh Nguyen | Posted 12.04.2009 | Green

Read More: American Consumerism, Consumerism, Black Friday Shopping, Black Friday, Unneccesary Products, Consumer Goods, Slidepoll, Waste, Green News, Trash, Green News

A big part of the enticement of holiday shopping is getting "deals." Here at HuffPost Green, we think that the frenzy around Black Friday and holiday...

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8 Ways to Green Your Thanksgiving Celebration

Robyn Griggs Lawrence | Posted 11.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Thanksgiving Commentary, Local Harvest, Thanksgiving Leftovers, 100-Mile Thanksgiving Challenge, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Traditions, Organic Wine, Natural Turkey, Green Your Thanksgiving, Local Produce, Farmer's Market, Reusable Containers, Recycle, Thanksgiving Turkey, Reusable Napkins, Use Less Stuff, Trash, Thanksgiving Tips, Holiday Preparations, Reusable Dishes, Green Cleaners, Thanksgiving Recipes, Local Farmer's Market, Landfill, Organic Turkey, Nontoxic Cleaning Products, Compostable Dishes, Thanksgiving Holiday, Biodegradable Dishes, Heritage Turkey, Green Cleaning Products, Nontoxic Cleaners, Thanksgiving Dinner, Holiday News, Green News
Robyn Griggs Lawrence

Between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day, 5 million extra tons of trash are created each week. It's easy to reduce your contribution to all that waste by greening your Thanksgiving.

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Potential E-Waste Nightmare: Microsoft Bans Nearly a Million Xbox Users

treehugger.com | Posted 11.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Waste, Trash, Video Game Consoles, Xbox, Green News, Ewaste, Microsoft, Xbox Ban, Green News

After discovering nearly a million users had modified their consoles to play pirated games via the Xbox live service, Microsoft gave them the boot fro...

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Colorado's Black Bears: Coming to a Dumpster Near You

Lise Waring | Posted 11.12.2009 | Denver

Read More: Black Bears, Telluride, Aspen, Environment, Trash, Bears, Colorado DIvision of WIldlife, Wildlife, Colorado, Michael Phelps, Denver News
Lise Waring

The nature of the tight box canyon that cradles Telluride means that it's only a few blocks to the edge of civilization. Black bears wander through town in search of snacks -- especially this time of year.

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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch: Expanding Islands of Trash

nytimes.com | LINDSEY HOSHAW | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Plastics, Toxic Chemicals, Trash-Island, Trash, Sustainability, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Oceans, Pacific Ocean, Garbage, Garbage Vortex, Environment, Green News

Light bulbs, bottle caps, toothbrushes, Popsicle sticks and tiny pieces of plastic, each the size of a grain of rice, inhabit the Pacific garbage patc...

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Is Halloween The Most Wasteful Holiday? (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Eve Solomon | Posted 10.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Slidepoll, Halloween, Trash, Pumpkins, Halloween Costumes, Garbage, Costumes, Egging, Recycle, Jack-O-Lanterns, Packaging, Green News

Here at HuffPost Green we love a party... and Halloween is definitely a fun holiday. But as the tradition becomes increasingly consumer-oriented, we t...

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Want to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint? Reduce Your Trash Footprint!

John DeCock | Posted 10.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Packaging, Waste, Trash, Climate Change, No Impact Week, Oceans, Water, Epa, Green News
John DeCock

The Product Policy Institute has recently released two new reports that confirm product and packaging waste contribute forty-four percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.

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Amazing Dissolving Plastic Packaging

Creative Review | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Recycling, Trash, Landfills, Creative Review Magazine, Green Living, Green-Packaging, Green Products, Reducing Waste, Magazines, Green News

Newsstand copies of the November issue of CR come in a revolutionary new bag that simply dissolves in hot water. No waste. No landfill....

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HuffPosters Getting Trashed (SLIDESHOW)

Matthew Palevsky/Zach Dorfman | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Slidepoll, Recycling, No Impact Week, No Impact Man, Trash Management, Green, Trash, No Impact Project, Trash Day, Slideshow, Green News

As part of Trash Day for No Impact Week, (learn more here and sign up) we're taking a deeper look into trash, recycling and where things go after we t...

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Trash Is a Terrible Thing to Waste

Bill Chameides | Posted 10.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Freegan, Recycling, Energy, Dumpster Diving, Landfills, Waste, Composting, Trash, Do It Yourself, Pollution, Lower Your Impact, Garbage, Recycled Paper, Green News
Bill Chameides

Looking to lower your impact on the planet? Look no further than your trash bin. We Americans produce a lot of trash -- by some estimates about 250 million tons of the stuff per year.

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No Impact Week: Free to Be Plastic Free

Robin Madel | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Plastics, Compostable Plastic, earth911, Trash, No Impact Week, 2008 Coastal Cleanup Day, Fake Plastic Fish, City of San Francisco, Mother Jones, Dave Gilson, The Lifecycle of Plastic, Plastic-Free, Beth Terry, Zero-Waste, Biodegradable Plastic, Green News
Robin Madel

A former geology professor of mine used to say that this period of geologic history would be seen in the future as "The Pampers Layer." That can't be the legacy we intend to leave.

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Anti-Garbage: From Less Waste To Zero-Waste

nytimes.com | LESLIE KAUFMAN | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Recycling, Sustainabiilty, Green Living, Less Waste, Zero-Waste, Trash, Garbage, Green News

Across the nation, an antigarbage strategy known as "zero waste" is moving from the fringes to the mainstream, taking hold in school cafeterias, natio...

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Newtown Wastewater Treatment Plant, A Smelly and Unique Stop-Off In Greenpoint During Open House New York

Katharine Jose | Posted 10.14.2009 | New York

Read More: Trash, New York Trash, Urban Waste, Enviromental Technology, Brooklyn, Conservation, New York Waste, Green Living, Green Energy, New York, New York City, City Waste, Greenpoint, Water Treatment, Toxic Waste, Newtown Wastewater Treatment Plant, Biodegradable, Waste, New York News

By 12 p.m. on Saturday, October 10, all the free tours of the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant were full. The tall chain-link fence gate was o...

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So. Cal. Chronicles - Redemption For $28.69

Jane Minogue | Posted 12.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Recycling, Trash, Aluminum Cans, Plastic Bottles, California Bottle Bill, Waste Management, Recycled Materials, California, Green Living, Jane Minogue, Living News
Jane Minogue

It was the last day of my husband's staycation (nope, we didn't go anywhere), and we realized that one of the errands we overlooked (party animals that we are) was taking the recycling to a center.

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Every Little Bit Hurts -- Figuring Out Trashy Behavior

Mark Olmsted | Posted 12.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Greening Hollywood, Immigrants, Trash, Green Living, Social Class, Litter, Hollywood, Littering, Green News
Mark Olmsted

Some of the worst offenders were the middle-aged men who smoked mountains of Capri cigarettes; if I had $5 for every one I eventually picked up, I would now be living in a villa inCapri.

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My Metropolitan Diary

Sophie Pollitt-Cohen | Posted 12.01.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Diapers, Metropolitan Diary, The Strand, Chess, Ginkgo-Biloba, Summer, Soda, Playground, New York Times, Trash, Union Square, Buses, Cheeseburgers, People Who Are Stupid, Tea Party, Comedy News
Sophie Pollitt-Cohen

Dear Diary: Today I threw an empty soda bottle into a trashcan, and a rat jumped out at my face.

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Vail woman fends off bear with pillow

Vail Daily. | Vail Daily | Posted 11.29.2009 | Home

Read More: Pillow, Fight, Attack, Kill, Bear, Trash, Put Down, Vail, Wildlife, Colorado, Home News

A pillow is probably not on the list of official tips on fending off hungry predators, but it worked for Vail resident Sally Rebehn when a bear follow...

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Birth of a Trash Whisperer

Mark Olmsted | Posted 11.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Serenity Prayer, Griffith Park, Trash, Service, Dogs, Litter, Green News
Mark Olmsted

Within a week I was hooked on collecting trash. I'd found an addiction with a very gentle high but no hangover.

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Following Trash on Its Journey Through the Waste Disposal System

nytimes.com | MIREYA NAVARRO | Posted 11.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Recycling, Trash, Waste Disposal, Tracking Trash, Green News

Collecting, transporting, storing and getting rid of garbage is a costly and often daunting task for cities. Lynn Brown, a spokeswoman for Waste Manag...

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Who Decides When to Potty Train: You, Baby or Big Diapers?

Kirsten Dirksen | Posted 09.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Diapers, Trash, Faircompanies, Landfill, Green News, Potty Training, Garbage, Motherhood, Parenting, Green News
Kirsten Dirksen

How did we, in just one generation, go from believing that an 18-monther was ready for the potty to feeling like we needed to let them discover their own way for an additional year and a half?

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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
Wendy Gordon

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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Desperate Bottled Water Industry Battles Trend Toward Tap (VIDEO)

Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 08.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Plastic Trash, Plastic Waste, Tap Water, Plastic Water Bottles, Environment, Trash, Plastic, Plastic Bottles, Pollution, Bottled Water, Green News
Lisa Kaas Boyle

As concerns mount over bottled water's impacts on the environment and human health, bottled water sales are beginning to dry up.

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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
Olivia Sterns

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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5 Things You Never, Ever Throw In The Trash

planetgreen.discovery.com | Posted 05.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Trash, Cfls, Pollution, Green News

Unless you've been sleeping under a rock for the past 20 years you know the importance of recycling. Now more than ever our landfills are filling to t...

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Garbage-Powered Garbage Truck Debuts In UK

Discover Magazine | Rachel Cernansky | Posted 03.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Waste, Uk, SITA UK, Trash, Garbage-Powered Garbage Truck, Green News

Last week, SITA UK, a recycling and waste management company, and the Kirklees Metropolitan Council in Northern England unveiled a garbage truck that ...

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