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The UK’s first ever plant for recycling nappies is to open today. The facility, which will also recycle feminine hygiene and adult incontinence products, is the first of five planned over four years byKnowaste, an organisation which specialises in absorbent hygiene … Continue reading →

I love reading about little innovations that make life easier for so many people with eco-friendly solutions. In the realm of water conservation, every drop is precious and rain water is one of the purest forms of water before it reaches … Continue reading →

If researchers at Tulane University have their way, old news could be a new fuel. The researchers have discovered a bacterial microbe that likes the taste of old newspapers — the cellulosic wood pulp that makes the paper, to be … Continue reading →

The Sheraton Hotel on Harbor Island is joining the small group of large-scale facilities that compost food waste in San Diego. After years of work, the idea is starting to catch on will smaller sites such as grocery stores.   A garbage truck … Continue reading →

BY CHRISTOPHER MIMS 1 AUG 2011 11:58 AM In the 19th century, there were 150 glaciers in Glacier National Park, and now there are just 25. By 2020, even those will be gone, says Daniel Fagre, coordinator of climate change and … Continue reading →

Published: July 26, 2011 9:05 AM By The Associated Press VISTA, CA — – (Marketwire) — 07/26/11 — E-World Online, a leading provider of electronics recycling solutions, and Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Earth911, Inc., operator of the nation’s largest recycling directory, have partnered to … Continue reading →

County officials say collection can reduce landfill waste by up to 23 percent Robyn Page and her daughters, 6-year-old Vivienne Page Gilmore, left, and Simone Page Gilmore, 9, center, eat watermelon. Afterward, they put the scraps in a container in … Continue reading →

BY JESS ZIMMERMAN 13 JUL 2011 1:55 PM Finally, your dream of solar pants can come true! MIT researchers havedevised solar panels that can be printed directly onto fabric, plastic, or paper, as easily as printing from an inkjet. The result … Continue reading →

By Felipe Cabrera/The Star-Ledger Frances Micklow/The Star-LedgerYvane Romelus, a house keeper at the Renaissance Woodbridge Hotel in Iselin, NJ, separates used soap and lotion to be donated, recycled and given out in places where there is need. When Shawn Seipler and … Continue reading →

ANDREW PRICE Web Editor Recession is the mother of invention. With transportation infrastructure in a sorry state in California—the proliferation of potholes in Los Angeles, for example, is incredible—more cities are turning to a method of repairing roads by recycling … Continue reading →