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Save Paper at the Office Using New Calculator

Trey Granger, June 18th, 2008

Looking for a way to reduce paper calculator to demonstrate how simple changes by your company can produce significant results. Paper Calculator v2.0 features illustrations and interactive charts to show the environmental impacts of different papers across their full lifecycle. To start, you simply need to know: What type of paper your office is using How much it goes through in a year Its percentage ... read more

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Tagged basics, ideas, mixedpaper, noteworthy, recycle, reduce

Published in Paper


Garbage Ruins Recycling Efforts in UT

Ashley Schiller, June 17th, 2008

Car hoods, shoes, dirty Huggies and deer carcasses. None of these items should be placed in a recycling bin, yet in Salt Lake County, Utah, they often are, reports the Salt Lake Tribune. The extra time it takes to remove all the garbage placed in bins makes recycling less efficient and more expensive for residents. Larry Gibbons, sales manager at Rocky ... read more

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Tagged basics, bicycle, dirt, ideas, noteworthy, recycle

Published in General


Beach Bins to Encourage Recycling

Ashley Schiller, June 17th, 2008

Plastic bottles, cans and glass disrupt what would be a lovely beach vista in Santa Cruz and Monterey, California. To help decrease the litter problem and promote recycling, 59 recycling bins will be placed along the two county's beaches, reports The Herald. The state has 278 parks, with about 76 million visitors a year, Dana Jones, Monterey Sector superintendent for ... read more

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Published in General


Honda’s Zero Emission Car Hits the Market

Ashley Schiller, June 16th, 2008

The only thing emitted by Honda's new hydrogen fuel car, the FCX Clarity, is water, according to Business Week. The Clarity runs on hydrogen and electricity. The company says it is two times more energy efficient than a gas-electric hybrid and three times that of a standard gasoline-powered car. The plan is to release a few dozen this year and ... read more

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Tagged basics, energy, fuel, ideas, noteworthy, wood

Published in Automotive


Recycle Cell Phones for World Refugee Day

Trey Granger, June 16th, 2008

Donating your cell phone from now through October can save more than just landfill space. A new partnership between Tents of Hope and ECO-CELL will donate money for each phone recycled to help refugees in Darfur, Sudan. The partnership will launch on Saturday, which is World Refugee Day. In addition to drop-off locations in many U.S. states, you can mail in ... read more

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Published in Electronics


Green Plug: Product Stewardship for Power Supplies

Francine Hardaway, June 16th, 2008

A San Ramon, CA company, Green Plug, is developing a universal intelligent power supply that will communicate with devices, supply them only with the power they need, and eliminate the waste created by "phantom power." This type of energy use (phantom power) is unnecessary power that is used when a device is left plugged in after being fully charged ... read more

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Published in Electronics


8 Ways to Green Your Shopping

Trey Granger, June 16th, 2008

This story is part of Earth911’s “Green Eight” series, where we showcase eight ways to green your life in various areas. Depending on the size of your family, you may hit up the grocery store once a week. Maybe even multiple times a week. Consider that 32 percent of the waste we produce is packaging, and you'll understand how important it ... read more

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Tagged basics, batteries, carfluids, cfl, energy, householdcleaners, ideas, lightbulbs, motoroil, noteworthy, otherglass, packaging, pesticides, recycle, reduce, reuse

Published in Household


Do Plastics Really Cause Cancer?

Bob Peeples, PE, June 16th, 2008

Power to the Peeples is an exclusive Earth911 series written by Bob Peeples, our resident chemical engineer and Program Manager of Earth911’s sister site Beaches911. Bob combines his extensive knowledge of the environment and how things work with an off-the-cuff sense of humor. It's funny how we deduce things in life. Scientists injected phthalates into rats which was linked to ... read more

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Tagged basics, energy, ideas, noteworthy, pesticides, plasticbottles, pvc, recycle, windows

Published in Plastic


A Waste Free Lunch

Libuse Binder, June 16th, 2008

Ladies and lads who pack their own lunch are already making an economically-savvy choice, but by packing these homemade goodies into a reusable bag, your choice is as eco-conscious as it is economical. Dining with your own reusable setup can greatly reduce the amount of aluminum needed to keep your delicious treats pristine until lunchtime. From the old-fashioned metal lunch ... read more

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Tagged basics, book, ideas, lead, noteworthy, pvc, recycle, reduce

Published in Household


Company Profile: Culturata Organics

Raquel Fagan, June 16th, 2008

The "Company Profile” is an Earth911.com series highlighting consumer goods and services making a difference through product stewardship and recycling. Products and services featured do not pay for placement and are not endorsed by Earth911.com. As organic products become more popular, they begin to enter every realm of our daily lives. From foods, body products or clothing, organic is a hot ... read more

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Published in Clothing


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