Articles tagged “Waste Disposal”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Waste Not, Want Not: How to Waste Less Food By Michelle Kay, NaturallySavvy.com IN Food & Health Mar 24 2011 Cutting down on food waste is one way to live a green lifestyle. Here are some tips on how. + READ MORE

Top 10 Most Toxic Cities & Top 10 Fittest Cities in the US... Is Your City On the Lists? By Laurel House IN Travel & Outdoors Mar 6 2011 Think you live in a pretty green town? While smog levels, health food stores, and the number of treehuggers might seem like legit indicators of toxicity levels, have you ever broken it down and analyzed its Air quality, Water quality, TRI (the EPA’s Toxic Release Inventory- tracking chemicals released in manufacturing), and Superfund sites (abandoned areas that have become overrun by hazardous waste)? No? Not to worry, Forbes Magazine did the dirty work for you and just released their annual Top 10 Most Toxic Cities list. + READ MORE

Hit the Ski Slopes -- On An Urban Rooftop By Rachel Cernansky IN Travel & Outdoors Feb 25 2011 Would you go go skiing off a rooftop if you could? How about in the middle of a major city? + READ MORE

One More Reason Why Zero Waste Is Important: That Plastic Bag Takes 1,000+ Years to Decompose By Mat McDermott IN Home & Garden Nov 15 2010 The thing I want you to consider is what different material choices mean for waste. As much as we'd like it to be Zero Waste Day, a true zero waste economy is a long ways off and even then zero waste would probably end up being more like 90% waste-free even under the best of circumstances. Which is why choosing biodegradable materials is so important. Check out this infographic showing how long it takes various materials to decompose. + READ MORE

7 Ways to Precycle, Upcycle, and DIY Your Way to (Almost) Never Recycling Again By Blythe Copeland IN Home & Garden Nov 9 2010 These days, we know that recycling isn't always the greenest option -- so instead, we've rounded up seven small changes you can make at home to give up recycling for good. + READ MORE

Is Recycling Aerosol Cans Good for the Planet? By Rachel Cernansky IN Work & Connect Oct 22 2010 If aerosol cans aren't empty when they are disposed of, the contents inside can be toxic. Best not to use aerosol, but if you have some to get rid of, make sure you do it right. + READ MORE

Sludge Not So Dirty After All: Clean Energy from Wastewater On the Rise By Rachel Cernansky IN Tech & Transport Oct 7 2010 Producing biofuel from wastewater seems like a natural equation: take a resource that's produced incessantly, and is an environmental pollutant, and turn it into energy + READ MORE

England Town Flushes Toilets, Heats Homes By Rachel Cernansky IN Tech & Transport Oct 5 2010 It takes just over three weeks: flush a toilet in Didcot, England and 23 days later, it has produced biomethane that heats about 200 homes -- through the national gas grid. + READ MORE

Book Review: Gene Logsdon's "Holy Sh*t: Managing Manure to Save Mankind" By Colleen Vanderlinden IN Home & Garden Sep 30 2010 A review of Gene Logsdon's "Holy Sh*t: Managing Manure to Save Mankind" + READ MORE

Europe E-Waste Exports Continue, Despite Ban; U.S. Exports More, With No Ban At All By Rachel Cernansky IN Tech & Transport Aug 4 2010 Europe has a ban on e-waste exports that it is having trouble enforcing; the U.S. doesn't even have such a ban. + READ MORE

Food Waste in the U.S.: More Energy Lost Than Offshore Drilling Can Replace By Rachel Cernansky IN Food & Health Jul 30 2010 An interesting twist to the food waste discussion: more energy is wasted in the form of food than is stored in all of the nation's offshore oil and gas reserves. + READ MORE

Justice Served, Sort of: Trafigura Fined $1 Million for Dumping Toxic Waste in Ivory Coast By Rachel Cernansky IN Work & Connect Jul 28 2010 The Probo Koala carried 400 tons of toxic waste from Amsterdam to Nigeria and couldn't dump it anywhere, so it did so illegally in the Ivory Coast, and the company in charge is now paying a (small) price. + READ MORE

Plumbing Device Brings New Meaning to Waste-to-Energy By Rachel Cernansky IN Tech & Transport Jul 23 2010 A UK industrial design student had a rather simple but brilliant idea: capture the energy produced by falling wastewater and turn it into electricity. + READ MORE

How to Go Green: Barbeques By Team Planet Green IN Food & Health Jul 2 2010 Sixty million Americans put fire to food during the summer, but typical grilling and barbeques leave no small footprint behind; our barbeque celebrations cause 225,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide to be released into the atmosphere. Follow our guide for How to Go Green: Barbeques for tips 'n tricks to greener grilling. + READ MORE

EPA Opens Public Comment Period on Coal Ash. What Happens If It's Not Regulated as Hazardous Waste? By Rachel Cernansky IN Travel & Outdoors Jun 30 2010 The EPA recently issued two proposals for coal ash regulation. Two people who live in communities affected by coal ash had a lot to say about the consequences of the material not being regulated as hazardous waste. + READ MORE

How to Go Green: Recycling By Team Planet Green IN Home & Garden Jun 1 2010 Recycling got its start almost four decades ago, a U.S. paper company wanted a symbol to communicate its products' recycled content to customers. The design competition they held was won by Gary Anderson, a young graphic designer from the University of Southern California. His entry, based on the Mobius strip (a shape with only one side and no end) is now universally recognized as the symbol for recycling. + READ MORE

Deposit on Cigarette Butts? Recycling Program Proposed for New York By Rachel Cernansky IN Work & Connect May 26 2010 If a recently-proposed bill passes, New York will soon have a cigarette butt recycling program that would collect a one-cent deposit on every cigarette. + READ MORE

Why You Don't Want to Send Batteries to a Landfill By Care2.com IN Tech & Transport May 5 2010 Most people never get to visit a landfill and my guess is that for the most part, they are quite all right with that arrangement. Landfills are not generally places that people want to hang out and the word conjures up images of oozing slime, festering water puddles and rats the size of small cows, so I can completely understand the hesitance. Having said that, I think that not only should everyone visit their local landfill, but that everyone should be required to visit their local landfill (or, if your trash is dealt with in other ways, to wherever it lands up). + READ MORE

25 Wasteful Things You Can Live Without By Team Planet Green IN Work & Connect Apr 20 2010 Take stock of the disposable, packaged, and single-use products that you use, and then look for reusable alternatives. Not sure where to start? Here are more than two dozen items that many people use, but can easily live without. + READ MORE

Recycling Can Make Being Green Hilarious (VIDEO) By Ronnie Citron-Fink IN Travel & Outdoors Apr 16 2010 The folks who design for our future are looking to us for clues to helping people go greener. How about using humor? + READ MORE