Waste

Greener Shaving Now! Do Away With Disposables (VIDEO)

Grist | Posted 07.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Waste, Green Shaving, Green Grooming, Green Living, Shaving, Water, Reducing Waste, Giy, Green News

How green is your grooming routine? Shaving is one place where a lot of Americans end up wasting a lot of water -- and other stuff. Grist's Umbra say...

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College Students Get Trashed -- Er, Get Energy From Trash

treehugger.com | Posted 06.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Waste, Energy, UNH, Landfill Gas, New Hampshire, Green News

The project just completed is known as EcoLine and uses purified methane gas from a nearby landfill. Nothing particularly new in that, but the big dea...

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Square Toilet Paper Begs You Not To Waste It

treehugger.com | Posted 06.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Waste, Square Toilet Paper, Toilet Paper, Reducing Waste, Paper, Green News

Ban reduced the amount of paper that rolls off the tube by making it square instead of round, so that what you take is what you really need. According...

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Save 60 Gallons Of Water In One Day

planetgreen.discovery.com | Posted 06.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Waste, Green Living, Reducing Waste, Water, Giy, Green News

You can save 60 gallons of water today without spending any money (I'm going to assume you own some of the things that I mention, like a 1000 sq ft ga...

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A Drop In The Bucket: Sensors Reduce Golf Course Water Use

nytimes.com | LARRY DORMAN | Posted 06.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Golf's Water Footprint, Golf, Water Footprint, Water, Waste, Environment, Green News

"We were a very efficient operation to start with," said Shawn Emerson, the superintendent at Desert Mountain Golf Club, a complex of six courses with...

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Cool Reuse: Cardboard Packaging Transforms Into Hangar

treehugger.com | Posted 06.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Waste, Green Living, Reducing Waste, Green Technology, Hangarpak, Resue, Green News

Packaging is a tough one. You can often reduce the amount used, but you still need something to protect what you're shipping. One solution is to make ...

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Waste Into Fuel: The Coolest Green Fuels

Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 06.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Garbage Fuel, Biofuel, Waste, Beer Fuel, Chocolate Fuel, Waste Into Fuel, Green Technology, Green News

We have an oil dependency. We create too much waste. Wouldn't it be swell if we could kill two birds with one stone here? Here are some of the cooles...

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Water Footprint: How Much Water Your Stuff Takes

Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 06.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Waste, Water Footprint, Water, Green News

We've all heard about carbon footprints. We know that the stuff we buy and use leaves a long trail of... stuff. A T-shirt involved growing cotton, whi...

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The Plastics "Out There" and "In Here"

Wallace J Nichols | Posted 06.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Plastic Bottles, Environment, Waste, Plastics, Plastic, Plastic Waste, Plastic Bags, Green News
Wallace J Nichols

A huge percentage of our plastic problem could be addressed immediately, using simple, cost-effective, off-the-shelf technologies.

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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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Farmer: It's Bad Farming, Not Meat, Responsible For Waste

Chelsea Green | Posted 06.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Farming, Eating Matters, Environment, Waste, Pollution, Meat, Green News

It is not meat eating that is responsible for increased CO2; it is the corn/ soybean/ feedlot/ transportation system under which industrial animals ar...

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Paperwork Caused Fuel Waste In California Fire Fight

AP | GREG RISLING | Posted 06.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Fuel, California Wildfires, Environment, Waste, Wildfires, Green News

LOS ANGELES — When the fire devastating Santa Barbara broke out, tanker planes had to fly twice as far to load water and retardant because the U...

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Snack Wrappers Get Upcycled Into Bags

Earth911.com | Posted 06.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Terracycle, Waste, Frito-Lay, Green Living, Upcycling, Reusing Waste, Green News

With Frito-Lay, TerraCycle will start a new recycling brigade set to collect used chip bags. These bags will become a host of products, from notebooks...

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E-Waste Expected To Plateau By 2015

treehugger.com | Posted 06.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Waste, Pollution, E-Waste, Green News

According to a study by Pike Research called "Electronics Recycling and E-Waste Issues," we can expect to see a leveling out of the amount of e-waste ...

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What a Waste: New Homes Demolished by Bank

Maura Judkis | Posted 06.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Waste, Environment, Banks, Housing Market, Environmentally-Friendly-Demolition, Reducing Waste, Housing Crisis, Green News
Maura Judkis

A bank has decided to demolish new homes because it was cheaper than selling them in this market.It's a sign of just how bad the housing market has gotten and a troubling example of our culture of disposability.

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Large-Screen Kindle: NOT A SAVIOR For Print And Delivery Industries

venturebeat.com | Posted 06.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Kindle, Large-Screen Kindle, Waste, E-Books, E-Reader, Big-Screen Kindle, Green Technology, Amazon.com, Green News

So will it work? Well, the current version of the Kindle already offers subscriptions to various newspapers and magazines, and both Amazon and publish...

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Turn An Old Laptop Into An Entertainment Center (VIDEO)

LAPTOP Magazine | Posted 06.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Waste, Green Living, E-Cycling, E-Waste, Giy, Electronics, Green News

E-waste is the e-worst. Proper disposal of old computers, TVs, iPods and the rest is really important in preventing nasty toxins from leaching into ...

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Flu Symptoms Divert International Flight, Waste Fuel

wbztv.com | Posted 06.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Air Travel, Energy, Fuel, Swine Flu Panic, Swine Flu, Waste, Green News

United flight 903 from Munich to Dulles made an emergency stop in Boston because a 53-year-old woman was complaining of feeling ill. ...

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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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Bottled Water Vs. Tap Water: Health Spotlight

planetgreen.discovery.com | Posted 05.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Water, Tap Water, Environment, Waste, Plastic, Pollution, Reducing Waste, Bottled Water, Green News

According to a study by the Environmental Working Group, bottled water is just as polluted as a tap water. In fact, twenty percent of bottled water ha...

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Closing the Book on Tribute Books

Suzy Shuster | Posted 05.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Recycling, Waste, Paperless, Green Living, Paper Waste, Paper, Books, Green News
Suzy Shuster

Follow the lead and get rid of tribute books for any charity events or fundraisers and save yourself the headache of printers. And save some trees while you're at it.

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Does Green Have To Be Expensive? (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 05.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Recycling, Green Products, Environment, Waste, Recycled Paper Products, Green Living, Paper, Money Saving, Marcal, Green News

True or false: The hardest thing about going green is accepting the higher cost. FALSE! The belief that going green is costly is itself a costly mis...

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Are Online Publications Really Greener Than Newspapers?

nytimes.com | TOM ZELLER Jr. | Posted 05.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Waste, Newspapers, Which Is Greener, Green Business, Paper, Green News

As several of our readers pointed out, weighing the environmental and climate impacts of a physical newspaper against the impacts of its online manife...

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Book Publishers Set Green Goals

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 05.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Publishing, Books, Waste, Green Business, Pollution, Paper, Reducing Waste, Green News

NEW YORK — The publishing industry has been fitted for 20-20-20 vision. The Book Industry Environmental Council, a coalition of publishers, boo...

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Eco-Dilemma: When Organic Eggs Are Sold In Styrofoam

Modern Eco Homes | Posted 05.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Waste, Eggs, Styrofoam, Food, Green Living, Eating Matters, Green News

I was in the store yesterday picking up some of my favorite organic foods and found myself in an interesting environmental and organic dilemma. I n...

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