Articles tagged “Waste Disposal”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Gutted Episode: Bracknell By Team Planet Green IN Gutted Episodes Jun 18 2010 Kim is an administrator for a Reading based mortgage provider. She and her family are keen members of the local Amateur Dramatics society and throw themselves into community life. Unfortunately for Kim’s husband Tim, she is also an avid watcher... + READ MORE

Gutted Episode: Essex By Team Planet Green IN Gutted Episodes Jun 18 2010 Sarah Jane is a commercial risk manager for The Royal Bank of Scotland, always perfectly presented and dressed in designer clothing. On the surface of it Sarah’s house looks clean, tidy and normal, but it’s when you look deeper that... + READ MORE

Gutted Episode: Dorking By Team Planet Green IN Gutted Episodes Jun 18 2010 Larger than life, charismatic and charming, Graham loves his bargain buys so much that he can't bring himself to part with them, and they have taken over his home. Coronation posters, James Bond memorabilia, Elvis records, Victorian paintings, signet rings,... + READ MORE

Gutted Episode: Blackpool By Team Planet Green IN Gutted Episodes Jun 18 2010 Karen is lively, fun and larger than life woman with a penchant for hapless hoarding that has left her crying out for more space in her sizeable six-bedroom house! Six years ago after her marriage fell apart Karen made the... + READ MORE

Gutted Episode: Croydon By Team Planet Green IN Gutted Episodes Jun 18 2010 On a quiet estate in Croydon Surrey lives the Ellis family - John, his wife Jill and their three children. A happy nuclear family on the surface, but bubbling beneath the seemingly normal exterior is a clutter problem that is... + READ MORE

About The Show By Team Planet Green IN Gutted Jun 16 2010 Are you attached to your stuff? Could you give up all your possessions for a cash payout? What if you didn’t get the chance to choose, only returned home to find everything you own missing? If you’re a hoarder, you... + 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

Annabelle Wants YOUR Ideas! By Team Planet Green IN Wasted May 3 2010 With the new season of WA$TED! underway, I'm excited to tell you that I could definitely feel a change in attitudes with the households and businesses I worked with. Almost everyone I met (with some notable exceptions which you'll have... + READ MORE

Accessibility, Affordability and Actionability By Team Planet Green IN Wasted May 3 2010 On Earth Day this year I was invited to be the Emcee of Los Angeles Earth Day Celebration and got to right in the middle of something really exciting. The City of Los Angeles was announcing a partnership with Recycle... + READ MORE

Greensburg Episode: This is Home By Team Planet Green IN Greensburg Episodes Apr 30 2010 Ninety-five percent of the homes and business in Greensburg were destroyed by the 2007 tornado. The five percent of homes that were only damaged are on the East side of town. Shirley Butler and her husband, Rex, live in a... + 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

Meet the Host of treehugger TV, Faith Salie By Team Planet Green IN Treehugger TV Apr 19 2010 Faith Salie is a television and radio host, commentator, interviewer, "ethics expert," actor, and journalist. And she's probably the only Rhodes scholar who's been a standup comedian. On television, she hosts Sundance Channel's coverage of the Sundance Film Festival, conducting... + 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

Top 5 "Frankenstein" Animals (Video News) By Team Planet Green IN Features Apr 9 2010 Welcome to Planet 100 for April 9, 2010. Today, we're counting down the top five franken animals. + READ MORE

David de Rothschild on The True Cost of Plastic By Rachel Cernansky IN Travel & Outdoors Mar 29 2010 In a recent post, anti-plastic and pro-oceans campaigner David de Rothschild reminds us the extent of our problem with plastic, and points out: "except for a very small percentage that has been incinerated, every single molecule of plastic ever manufactured still exists somewhere in our environment." + READ MORE

30 Days Episode: Off The Grid By Team Planet Green IN 30 Days Mar 24 2010 Two 30-year-old professionals who are friends and typical Americans?i.e., ravenous consumers of fossil fuels such as gas and electricity?go ?back to the future? and learn to live without the natural resources that will be depleted from our earth in the... + READ MORE

Eat Your Trash to Improve Your Cooking By Aliya Rinaldi IN Food & Health Feb 23 2010 Food waste in the United States has become a growing problem for our environment. Research shows that on average, 27% of all edible food is wasted every year in the U.S. The cost to not only manufacture the food and dispose of the waste is billions of dollars. Help our economy and our ecosystem by being creative when it comes to throwing out your food. Here are some tips and tricks to make your trash go a long way. + READ MORE

Haiti: Toxic Waste Dump Site Before the Earthquake, Lucrative Cleanup Contract After By Rachel Cernansky IN Travel & Outdoors Feb 10 2010 In the late 1980s, the Khian Sea dumped toxic waste in Haiti after the Bahamas, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Panama, Bermuda, Guinea Bissau and the Dutch Antilles all refused it. Now that the earthquake has wreaked havoc on the country, private contractors are whisking in for the cash. + READ MORE