News from Patricia Escarcega
One of Taiwan’s leading entrepreneurs is building an electronic waste recycling center built entirely out of trash and recycled materials. The facility, which will be located an hour’s drive north of Taipei, will recycle electronic waste generated by consumers and ...
News from Patricia Escarcega
Empty beer cans, bottles, utensils and discarded mountaineering equipment are abandoned on slopes every year.
News from Christina Caldwell
Soon the spent grounds used to make your Starbucks espresso could wind up in your next bottle of laundry detergent. With some processing, that is. According to research presented at a meeting of the American Chemical Society, a new City ...
Quick Bit from Raquel Fagan
As China emerges as a global industry giant and its population expands, so comes a huge amount of advertising. When Michele Santoro and Gyda Bjorg moved to China just under a year ago, they noticed that the country’s businesses come ...
Feature from Leon Kaye
While composting has become more mainstream, not everyone has access to the space necessary for the maintenance of a composting bin. Apartment dwellers and residents who live in condominium developments that have more rules than sense are a few examples ...
News from Christina Caldwell
Solar panels can sometimes be a thorn in the side of the green-minded architect. With their flat and chunky shape, achieving a better design aesthetic can be a challenge. But a Japanese company may have found a way around that ...
Feature from Nate Lipka
Busan, South Korea’s second largest city, is home to the country’s largest port and is the fifth busiest port in the world. With all those ships making stops in the sunny city of 3.6 million people, plenty of waste piles ...
News from Mary Mazzoni
Japan solidified its position as one of the top plastic recyclers in the world by recycling 77 percent of its plastic waste in 2010 – up from 73 percent in 2006 and 39 percent in 1996, according to the nation’s ...
Feature from Leon Kaye
About 40 percent of food is wasted in the U.S. But what would happen to that number if we were forced to pay for every pound we threw away? Leon Kaye travels to South Korea where tossing food hits means ...
News from Mary Mazzoni
A Singapore startup is perfecting a technology that can turn food waste into water, according to recent news reports. Renee Mison, 48, was semi-retired when she came upon the Korean-made food waste-to-water machine. The former marketing professional found so much ...
News from Raquel Fagan
A team of researchers in Singapore found a cheaper and more Earth-friendly way to filter raw water using recycled glass. As a part of their GLASSwater project, researchers from Ngee Ann Polytechnic have devised a way to use a porous ...
Feature from Amanda Wills
Sanyo’s massive manufacturing facility in a rural area just outside of Osaka, Japan serves as a massive testing facility for energy-saving technology that could soon pop up in the U.S. The Kasai Plant’s Green Energy Park houses a 1 MW ...