IKEA ceases operation of its enormously popular and beneficial free battery recycling program due to a new US DOT regulation. With very few other places to take used batteries, the prospects of recycling dwindle.
So you love living the green life. Why not have the green death as well with an environmentally friendly eco-coffin?
Conserval’s SolarWall does double duty when it comes to harnessing power and heat from the sun.
A brewery in Wisconsin is utilizing by-product from its brewing processes to power a local hospital.
The EcoATM is a fully automated and free standing e-cycling solution that has the capability of recycling a vast array of mobile electronics; many of which are often times difficult to recycle.
The Blatz Brewery renovation project in Milwaukee puts thousands of decades old empty beer bottles to good use.
The Envi is a composting public trash can that also doubles as a planter. Though the concept is interesting, the success of such a receptacle rests solely on a notoriously unreliable factor.
Starbucks has always failed, in large part, to address one of its largest environmental impacts; its cups. That all may be soon changing with a new pilot recycling program in NYC intended to find a way to make all of its cups 100% recyclable by 2012.
Starting next spring, the University of New Hampshire (UNH) will be getting 85% of its needed heat and electricity from trash…in a matter of speaking.
The sustainable city of the future gets closer to becoming a reality every day. If you’re not already familiar with Masdar City and what it’s planned to be; you should be.