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I didn’t know until recently that you can make fantastic clothing fabric from recycled plastic bottles. One night a couple of months ago I was helping the Director of the environmental non-profit I volunteer for, as she gave a recycling presentation to a group of individuals studying English as a second language. My role was [...]
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Best Buy is expanding a pilot electronics recycling program to the entire United States. Beginning February 15th, 2009, you will be able to bring up to two electronic units per day per household to your nearest Best Buy for recycling. They will accept televisions and monitors up to 32″ in size, desktop PC’s, notebooks and [...]
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There is an ecological emergency out there, out of sight and mind of just about everyone. It’s an area twice the size of the continental US in the North Pacific ocean, a graveyard where every piece of plastic dumped into the oceans and rivers eventually goes to (never) die. Sea currents carry any plastic that [...]
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President-elect Obama’s inauguration is hitting the trash–in style. Nancy Judd is a fashion designer and owner of Recycle Runway–a maker of elegant garments made out of trash that she displays in busy airports throughout the country. Her mission is to change the way we think about recycling and the environment by contemplating how even “dumpster [...]
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The holidays are a time for good cheer, family gatherings, eating lots of goodies–and unfortunately also a time for a lot of environmental waste. From the dried-up Christmas tree, to the mounds of paper and ribbon, to the unwanted gifts that get thrown away, to all that left over food–it’s one heck of a holiday [...]
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