Category Archives: Recycle
Hamilton is setting itself to be the first Canadian Municipality where every flush of a toilet will be fueling a city vehicle. The technology being used in several European countries for decades, will allow the city to harvest methane gas from sludge instead of wasting valuable resources. Hamilton is getting a grant of 30 million dollars as infrastructure grant. The project must be completed by March 2011. The biofuel will be used to power 110 water and waste water vehicles which will be retrofitted with special engines. It will cost $6000 each but there will be expected savings of $1 million in annual fuel savings which will pay back the expense quickly.
[TheStar]
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This isn’t any ordinary wheel chair as it is recycled out of an used mountain bike. Designed specifically for Guatemalan’s rough roads such a wheel chair is intended to make the lives of immobile people easier. Manufactured by a company which comprises of American and Guatemalan students, these chairs are less expensive and more durable. While a standard chair costs about $400, this recycled wheel chair is worth $40 – $150. In fact even the people employed to make these chairs are wheelchair bound. Since it is known that 55000 people are in need of a wheel chair in Guatemalan, such a green wheel chair will bring mobility back in the lives of many disabled people.Watch out for the video here.
[Reuters]
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Marks & Spencer and recycling firm Closed Loop have tied hands to have recycled salad boxes to help meet the UK goal of recycling 22.5 percent of packaging annually. Britain’s on a green roll, it looks like, what after their law for people to recycle their own waste at home or pay heavy fines. Before this, Marks and Spencer was using only 50% recycled packaging. Now with the introduction of the new boxes they will be an example to follow many years down the lane when the earth goes back to becoming a completely green place to live in. The new packaging will be made from bottles recycled in England, part of a strategy to decrease the carbon footprint of recycling itself.
[EnvironmentalLeader]
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The UK government has decided that it is about time that people start obeying rules and following the law in keeping the world a safer and greener place. Apparently, every household will now have to recycle their own rubbish and if they fail to do so, they will have to pay from 100 to 1,000 pounds of fine. In their kitchens everyone will have to have a slop bucket where they can toss their food waste and scrap. The rubbish collectors will not be collecting recyclables anymore and
people will just have to obey the rules and separate the glass, cans, wood and paper or else cough out the fine.
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This can be so painful. Not the tangible way, but the ouch in the heart way. It is a fact that when patients or any individual with a pacemaker dies, their pacemakers go with them. The thing though is that these devices still contain many years of battery power and they go to waste along with the decomposed body (I respect the dead!). So. The University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center thought – this isn’t working. They got their smart ass brains together and ‘developed an innovative program to collect and sterilize old pacemakers and deliver them to hospitals in developing countries’. (Can you believe that? Even here they have to give the second hand stuff to the ‘third world countries’! sigh). Anyway, that’s a sweet thought but get this one – the first one of these will be delivered by Doctor Timir Baman, a fellow at the cardiovascular center, to Southeast Asia to explore a partnership with the Vietnam Heart Institute. What irony!
[Nhqr]
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You know some of those companies that don’t care an iota for the amount of paper they waste each hour? Well I I know of one and it’s really sad they can go about daily throwing paper after paper into the bin when so many in developing nations crave for atleast a small piece of it. Not to forget all those trees being chopped down. Tokyo-based Nakabayashi stood up and showed why we love the Japanese so much. They have the in-office toilet paper machine that turns used copier paper into toilet rolls, right there in the office. It produces two rolls per hour from around 1,800 sheets (or 7.2kg) of used A4-sized paper. It will go on sale in Japan in august and they are hoping to sell around 60 units in the first year. Cheap then you would think? Nope, it comes at $95,000.all for a good cause though, don’t you think?
Via – [Newlaunches]
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If you are the one who is really, and I mean genuinely, concerned about the environment and the issues regarding global warming, maybe you would want to consider these options to fill your home. It is the Recycled Metal Magazine Rack. It is supposed to be a sturdy, sustainably harvested mango wood magazine rack, topped with colorful recycled metal for eco-friendly storage and includes hooks at the back for wall mounting. It is easy to carry around and also can be cleaned by simply wiping it. Maybe you can now consider having that unique library you have been planning for a while. Just get a bunch of these racks and make it your recycle library room. What fun. This rack will cost you $48.
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These days everything is just a click away. Almost everything! Be it buying, selling or even recycling. Just type recycling cell phones in a search machine and watch out for the endless results. A significant surge in the number of websites providing this service has led to this boom on search machines. Since the awareness for recycling mobile phones has seeded amongst consumers, this business of getting rid of cell phones in a responsible manner is benefiting all, including our planet. Apart from doing their bit for environment, consumers are also lured to recycle their cell phones to gain some cash benefit too. Along with the cell phones, it is also essential to recycle the batteries that charge them up. As these batteries are short lived then the cell phones, they play a major role in feeding e-waste heaps. They need to be disposed off with care equally. Currently less than 3% of portable batteries in the UK are recycled. BatteryBack provides a FREE treatment and recovery service for all portable batteries. Even WasteCare takes care of Battery recycling with great responsibility.
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Honda Motor Co. is a leader in sustainability and also for alternative fuel technology. It is expanding it to recycling of end-of-life products and the recovery of parts. Honda has sold highly functional recycled parts to customers in Japan since 1998 and went a step ahead in 2001 by marketing its reused parts. With this Honda has achieved a re-use rate of 84%. In 2007, Honda also succeeded in recovering approximately 27% of oil filters sold in Japan and plans to make further efforts to increase the number of end-of-life filters collected.
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This is a nice concept, a little stinky, but still nice. This is a bathroom with an interconnected sink and closet. The “Eco Bath” concept uses 50% reused water and 50% new water for a toilet system. It was designed by Jang Woo-seok. See, it’s like this. You use the sink and the water then goes into the closet and you can use that to flush. Then, the water in the closet goes up to the sink where you can use to, well, do your stuff. So it is like a cycle. In between you some tubes that will recycle the water so that you are not rinsing your mouth with what you drank yesterday. That’s how it works/. Smart idea, but also a little stinky.
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