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Get Schooled On Green

Trey Granger, September 28th, 2009

Ah, college application season. The time when prospective students start evaluating their priorities in higher education. They may be academic program strength, cost versus value, proximity to home or even a variable like status on the party school list. But where does eco-friendliness factor into the application process? After all, students are spending four (or more) years of their lives ... read more

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Tagged basics, batteries, composting, computers, energy, householdcleaners, ideas, noteworthy, organicwaste, television

Published in Garden


Coastal Cleanup Frees Trapped Animals, Collects Record Waste

Lauren Hasler, September 25th, 2009

Sept. 19 marked the 24th anniversary of the Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup Day, the largest one-day volunteer coastal cleanup of its kind. According to the Ocean Conservancy, during the 2008 cleanup, nearly 400,000 volunteers removed 6.8 million pounds of debris from 6,485 sites in 100 countries and 42 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. Volunteers also found 443 ... read more

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Tagged basics, beaches, ideas, noteworthy, plasticbags, plasticbottles

Published in General


Web Site Cracks Down on Metal Theft

Trey Granger, September 25th, 2009

The Institute of Scrap Metal Recycling Industries (ISRI) launched a new Web site in order to curb metal theft. ScrapTheftAlert.com allows law enforcement to post an alert when metal is stolen, possibly making it easier to apprehend suspects. Once the alert is posted, it goes out to metal recyclers within 250 miles of the original theft via email. More than ... read more

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Tagged basics, ferrousmetal, ideas, nonferrousmetal, noteworthy, recycle, steel

Published in Metal


Trash Talking With MIT

Amanda Wills, September 24th, 2009

The results are in! Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's SENSEable City Lab wrapped up July's Trash Track study of more than 3,000 pieces of trash in Seattle, New York City and London. Using GPS devices, researchers were able to follow materials such as Starbucks coffee cups and florescent light bulbs to find out what really happens to ... read more

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Tagged basics, curbside, ideas, noteworthy, recycle

Published in Household


Tucson Area Loses Hazardous Waste Drop-Off

Trey Granger, September 24th, 2009

For Pima County, Ariz. residents, disposing of paint and batteries just became more of a challenge. Budget cuts have forced Pima County and the City of Tucson to reduce funding for the $600,000 regional household hazardous waste (HHW) program, which means several sites have been suspended. Located almost 30 miles south of Tucson, Green Valley was one city that previously ... read more

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Tagged basics, carfluids, ideas, nicadbatteries, noteworthy, paint, pesticides, rechargeablebatteries

Published in Hazardous


Guess Who Tops Newsweek’s Greenest Company List?

Trey Granger, September 23rd, 2009

For its upcoming issue, Newsweek has assigned a green ranking to the 500 biggest public companies in America and named Hewlett-Packard the greenest company of 2009. This is the first time the magazine has undertaken a green rating project, and the results were based not only on the company's environmental footprint but also on its policies. Here's a breakdown ... read more

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Tagged basics, clothingandtextile, computers, ideas, noteworthy

Published in Electronics


Earth911 Receives ‘Friend of Glass’ Award

Jennifer Berry, September 23rd, 2009

Earth911.com received the Glass Packaging Institute's (GPI) first annual "Friend of Glass" Web site award today. Earth911 was recognized as a "model Web site for its achievements in making significant and innovative efforts to promote glass container recycling for bottle-to-bottle use." With more than 13,000 locations in the U.S. listed in our database that accept the material, Earth911.com ... read more

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Tagged basics, blueglass, brownglass, clearglass, greenglass, ideas, noteworthy, otherglass, recycle

Published in Glass


USDA Reports Organic Food Now Mainstream

Lori Brown, September 23rd, 2009

In a recently updated Organic Market Overview, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reports the market for organic foods is now "mainstream," with organic sales accounting for more than 3 percent of  total U.S. food sales. Three percent may seem like a small piece of the pie, but that small piece resulted in $21.1 billion of sales in 2008 ... read more

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Tagged basics, ideas, noteworthy, organic, pesticides

Published in Garden


‘Smart Trash’ Concept Advances Recycling

Lori Brown, September 22nd, 2009

Georgia Institute of Technology professor Valerie Thomas and her "Smart Trash" concept may just be the key to increased consumer recycling participation. Thomas, a professor at Georgia Tech's School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, designed a system to provide sustainable and productive ways for discarding household waste, while also redefining the relationship individuals have with their garbage. 'Smart Trash' functions using two ... read more

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Tagged aluminumcan, basics, ideas, noteworthy, plasticbottles, recycle

Published in Household


New Technology Converts Tires to Oil

Trey Granger, September 22nd, 2009

As seen on Discovery Channel's Daily Planet earlier this month, New Jersey-based Global Resource Corporation has patented a new technology that uses microwave energy to extract oil from waste tires without producing toxic emissions. The GRC process uses tires to produce carbon black, which is typically used to make more rubber. GRC estimates that it can convert a ton of ... read more

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Tagged basics, energy, ideas, noteworthy, recycle, tires

Published in Automotive


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