This University is Recycling Their Bubble Wrap By Offering It Up to Their Stressed Out Students
Instead of throwing their bubble wrap into the garbage, this university is recycling the packaging by using it as anti-stress therapy for their students.
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Instead of Dumping Rejected Food Shipments into Landfills, Truckers Are Donating Them to Local Charities
Instead of letting their rejected food shipments go to waste, truck drivers are being connected with local charities that can put the food to good use.
In Bid to Cut Food Waste, Kellogg's is Using Their Rejected Cornflakes to Make Beer
They're donating a portion of the beer's sales to charity, too.
Instead of Watching Farmers Contribute to Pollution, IKEA is Recycling Their Waste Into Products
IKEA has come up with an ingenious strategy that will benefit rural farmers while simultaneously reducing air pollution by 33%.
Recycle Your Cell Phone and Ink Cartridges
The Recycle My Cell Phone campaign offers a quick and easy way to help reduce the more than 65,000 tons of dangerous waste created by the discarding every year of 2 million phones.
PepsiCo Unveils World's First 100% Renewable Food-Based PET Bottle
PepsiCo this week unveiled the world's first PET plastic bottle made entirely from plant-based, fully renewable resources, enabling the company to manufacture a beverage container with a significantly reduced carbon footprint.
Help Others and Recycle at the Same Time
You can recycle and help others in need directly, at the same time.
Vast Urban Farm Grows Fish, Food In Old Chicago Meat Plant
On the third floor of an old meat-packing plant is a humid hothouse filled with rows of greens and sprouts, even exotic white strawberries. Nearby, in large barrels swim dozens of tilapia, fish native to tropical regions. The Plant is a leading example of urban vertical farming using old warehouses, where plants and fish are raised symbiotically, with a closed-loop system that uses all waste toward the production of food.
Eco-friendly Chinese 'Amateur' Wins Most Prestigious Architecture Prize
An architect who uses recycled building materials from historic buildings torn down to make way for China's megacities has won architecture's most prestigious international award, the 2012 Pritzker Architecture Prize. For myself, being an artisan or a craftsman, is being an amateur or almost the same thing, Wang Shu, 48, said in a press release, using the word in its true meaning as one who does something for love rather than money or professional accolades.
Bionic Yarn From Plastic Bottles: A Rapper's Green Investment in Fashion
Rapper and clothing entrepreneur Pharrell Williams is a key investor in Bionic Yarn, a highly durable fiber composed of organic cotton wrapped around a core of recycled PET from plastic bottles, which has been woven into shoes, canvas bags, jackets and shirts by such companies as Timberland, and Cole Haan.
UN Serves Lunch Made From Food Scraps to 30 World Leaders
World leaders dined on food scraps that would have ended in a landfill to highlight world hunger and climate change related to farming.
Green Australians Reusing 90% of Food Waste
Australian Food and Grocery Council revealed that about 90% of waste and by-products from food and grocery manufacturers surveyed was being reused or recycled, with less than 10% going to landfill.
Corporations Mimic Rainforest Efficiency While Creating Profits
Radical environmentalists and industrial corporations are trying to prove that industry can mimic the rainforests and increase profits at the same time.
New Technology Turns Garbage Into Gold
Imagine a machine that can turn almost anything into oil. Imagine that it uses natural processes like heat and pressure, and produces no pollution. Imagine recycling waste from landfills, refuse from poultry factories, sludge from city sewage, or even infectious medical waste. We now know it can be done.
How Nike's Green Design Recycled 82 Million Plastic Bottles
Nike's World Cup jerseys for the 2010 South Africa games were made of 100 percent recycled polyester, with each jersey taking eight plastic bottles out of landfills. The net result of that one project alone was reusing 13 million plastic bottles, and showed what was possible with the company's new ethos.
Biofuel Powers Two European Airlines
In two recent feasibility experiments, European airlines KLM and Thompson Airlines have integrated cooking oil-based biofuels into their passenger routes, in a 50-50 mixture with jet fuel.
This Package Could Help Amazon Use 200 Times Fewer Boxes
UK-based designer Yu-Chang Chou hopes to help stem the flow of single-use packages - like Amazon.com boxes - through a new design that can be reused 200 times. He calls it the Repack bag. Once the package is emptied, it can be folded and tossed in a nearby mailbox to return to the post office for someone else to buy and use.
Denmark's Near-Zero-Waste Wonder
The small city of Kalundborg, 64 miles west of Copenhagen, was the first municipality to have engineered a symbiotic relationship between all its industries so that the excess heat, water, waste and other resources leftover become feedstock for other industries and farms, creating a closed loop system.
Keurig Coffeemakers Unveil Recyclable K-cups (Finally)
Keurig coffee fans might love the convenience of the single-cup system, but the amount of plastic being thrown into landfills was worrying the rest of us. Now the coffee-selling giant has announced a recyclable coffee pod that may ease customers' guilt.
Check Out the Surprising Products Being Made From Coffee Grounds
More and more, we're seeing brilliant uses for household items once discarded as trash. You will never look at coffee grounds the same way.
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