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  • Nokia Plants A Tree For Every Cell Phone Recycled

    August 1st, 2008


    A Nokia Malasia program launched in July plants one tree for every old cell phone recycled, reports The Edge Daily.

    Phones of all brands are accepted at the various kiosks involved in the program. Consumers who drop off old mobiles will later be contacted with instructions on how to see the tree planted in their name via Google Earth.

    Nokia has pledged continue …


  • NCR Two-Sided Printer Helps Grocery Store Win Green IT Award

    July 25th, 2008


    NCR, the company that invented the point-of-sale printed receipt, has now thought of a way to save both paper and energy: printing on both sides of the receipt. Its new printer, the NCR RealPOS 7168, can produce a two-sided receipt at the point of sale. By using these simultaneous two-sided thermal receipt printers in its stores, UK continue …


  • Beijing Pledges to Recycle Half of Olympic Waste

    July 25th, 2008


    Beijing’s 31 Olympic venues are expected to jointly produce some 14,000 tons of trash, including leftovers, paper, plastic bottles and medical waste, reports Sina.

    In the tradition of past host countries, Beijing has pledged to make 50 percent of this waste useful after recycling.

    Food waste must be removed from stadiums within four hours. Other trash will be gathered continue …


  • Beijing Pushes Out Recyclers During Olympics

    July 15th, 2008


    In August, the Olympic games will be coming to Beijing, China. One thing that will be leaving is almost 170,000 workers who collect recyclables throughout the city.

    Reuters reports that these workers represent one quarter of Beijing’s recycling efforts, collecting everything from cardboard to plastic bottles. Beijing officials say that the workers represent infectious diseases and criminal records. In continue …


  • National Recycling Awards Adds Safety Category

    July 14th, 2008


    The British-based National Recycling Awards have decided to include a new award for 2008, recognizing the development of health and safety initiatives.

    The organization claims that recycling industry accidents are four times the average in the United Kingdom, and the UK will be hiring more employees due to increased recycling goals.

    Award nominations are due on August 22, with the continue …


  • Faced with Overflowing Landfills, Vancouver Contemplates Zero Waste

    July 2nd, 2008


    Faced with having its largest landfill scheduled to reach capacity by 2010, Vancouver, British Columbia has begun aggressively looking at programs to arrive at a zero waste economy.

    Since finding new landfill space is nearly impossible, the City’s zero waste strategy encompasses a lot of programs, from ramping up consumer compliance to lessons for citizens in composting.

    British Columbia also has continue …


  • Food Grade Plastic Made from Recycled Bottles

    June 30th, 2008


    Closed Loop Recycling in London has opened a plant to recycle plastic soft drink and milk bottles into useful packaging.

    CLR will take 35,000 tons of recovered plastic bottles, including milk and soft drink bottles and turn them back into recycled raw material for new food and drink packaging.

    Early customers for recycled food grade plastic from the plant include continue …


  • Organic Plastics Have a Future

    June 26th, 2008


    Dow Chemical is planning to build an organic plastics plant in Brazil by 2011, reports Business Week.

    The secret ingredient of the non-petroleum based plastics? Sugar cane. Dow has “mastered” the technology to convert sugar cane into the world’s most common plastic, polyethylene, according to the article. Polyethylene is used to make products ranging from shopping bags to shampoo bottles to children’s toys.

    The plastics factory continue …


  • Waste Levy on Imported TVs Proposed by New Zealand

    June 23rd, 2008


    The Consumer Electronics Association and the Environment Ministry of New Zealand are working on a product stewardship plan for the 250,000 TV sets imported each year into the country. The new plan, which would become law, would have one of two options.

    The first would be to have Customs collect a flat-rate levy of 30 dollars on each of the continue …


  • Ban the Plastic Bag Campaign Takes UK by Storm

    March 3rd, 2008


    The hot topic in the United Kingdom recently has been whether plastic bags should be banned, but what is the real issue behind the politics?