Posts Tagged ‘waste’
Sunday, August 2nd, 2009
Image credit: Back to Nature
Waste is certainly a silly thing - and one that doesn't sit well with the concept of living green. So the idea of an easy, complete kit for waste free school lunches is appealing. Including a stainless steel drink bottle, 2 stainless steel containers with leak proof plastic lids, 1 Food Kozy™ (reusable bag for sandwiches, cheese etc..), 1 cotton napkin, 1 recycled aluminium tag, the new
reusable school lunch kit from UK-based Back to Nature seems like a great way to teach kids to reuse. But I do h...
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Tags: Aluminium, Cheese, food, Free Lunch, Free School Lunches, Image Credit, Image Nature, Leak Proof, Lunch Kit, Plastic Lids, recycled consumer goods, reusability, Sandwiches, School Help, School Lunch, Silly Thing, Stainless Steel Containers, united kingdom, waste
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Friday, July 31st, 2009
Photo via jontintinjordan
The
Environment Agency of the United Kingdom slapped Red Bull with a record fine earlier this week. The company made a little slip-up - well, an 8-year-long big slip up - that it's now paying a big chunk of pocket change to correct. ...
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Tags: Chunk, corporate responsibility, Environment Agency, Photo, Pocket Change, recycling, Red Bull, Red Wings, Science & Technology, united kingdom, waste
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Friday, July 31st, 2009
Flamingo populations are on the rise in Turkey. Unfortunately, so is the amount of improperly disposed medical waste. Photos by suneko via Flickr (left) and Today's Zaman (right).
This past month was anything but short on developments of interest to environmentalists, with a deal being inked to build the
Nabucco natural-gas pipeline, European funders pulling out of the
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Tags: animals, biking, birds, Eco, Environmentalists, Flamingo, Medical Waste, Natural Gas Pipeline, news, oceans, Photos, Pollution, Populations, renewable energy, turkey, waste
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
Photo via Jeffrey M Sanders
If there's anything more appalling than massive man-caused environmental catastrophes, it's the ensuing reports on how each one could have been (often rather easily) prevented. In the case of the
5.4 million cubic yards of coal ash that spilled out across Tennessee, it turns out the Tennessee Valley Authority had been warned of that exact scenario taking place--by its own employees, and as early as 1985. Oh, and along with this revelation comes the...
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Tags: 23 Years, Business & Politics, coal, Coal Ash, congress, Cubic Yards, Environmental Catastrophes, Exact Scenario, M Sanders, Massive Man, Photo, Pollution, Revelation, Spill, Tennessee Valley Authority, Tva, waste
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
What beats this??
Remember when we posted last year about
HP's ridiculous packaging issue? The company shipped a few pieces of paper in a lot of boxes. Wasteful, right? Well, it just completely outdid itself. You'll never guess what record for excessive packaging it managed to set......
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Tags: Boxes, electronics, green packaging, Guess, Hp, Packaging Company, Science & Technology, Tops, waste
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Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
Photo via Twilight Earth
As the
number one coal user in the world, China's got a lot of
soot on its hands. Around $13 billion worth, according to a recent
report from Greenpeace. That's how much the nation's coal-burning ways cost the environment last year: $13 billion worth of damage by polluting the air and water, degrading the environment, and injuring...
Tags: Air And Water, Business & Politics, carbon emissions, China, coal, Coal Burning, Environment, greenpeace, Lot, Photo, Pollution, Soot, Twilight Earth, waste, World China
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