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K-Cup recycling offered by Wheaton's furniture in Moncton
A furniture store is giving Moncton-area residents the chance to recycle K-Cups and help create jobs for people with disabilities in the Maritimes. Wheaton's furniture has launched a pilot project to recycle the convenient coffee cups and at the same time, create jobs for people who are disabled. The single-use cups are popular, but the handy coffee pods generate a significant amount of waste.
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The most polluted place on Earth
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Nigerians Are Building Fireproof, Bulletproof, And Eco-Friendly Homes With Plastic Bottles And Mud
These colorful homes are bulletproof, fireproof, and can withstand earthquakes. They also maintain a comfortable temperature, produce zero carbon emissions, and are powered by solar and methane gas from recycled waste. Plastic is everywhere. In fact, the environment is so riddled with it, researchers predict that 99% of all birds on this planet will have plastic in their gut by the year 2050.
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The Violent Afterlife of a Recycled Plastic Bottle
What happens after you toss it into the bin? By Debra Winter.
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The Violent Afterlife of a Recycled Plastic Bottle
What happens after you toss it into the bin? Most of us do not think much about recycling. We might clean bottles and jars, crush cartons and break down boxes. We might sort these items into their designated bins or bags, but once we lose sight of the recyclables, the rest of the process is an abstraction. Recycling makes us feel good, but few of us know what actually happens to a plastic bottle after we drop it into a bin.
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A Guide to Christmas Tree Recycling
It's hard to think of the Christmas tree, the centerpiece of holiday decorations for many American families, as a natural resource, but it is.
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In the French Alps, a Pictureseque Town that Generates Cheese Power
The same thing that keeps the lights on and appliances humming tastes great on a cracker.
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Why we all need to start drinking toilet water
With severe droughts and rising populations, we will have to accept “toilet-to-tap” schemes. Cities like Perth in Australia are leading the way.
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Ikea Wants You To Stop Throwing Away Your Ikea Furniture
Where does an Ikea product go when it approaches the end of its useful life? Maybe Craigslist, or the annual yard sale, or—for the optimistic or guilt-ridden—a storage unit. Probably the worst option of all? The landfill. But Steve Howard, the Scandinavian company’s chief sustainability officer, believes in a future where Ikea furniture never really dies at all. Instead, it gets reincarnated.
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Is it time to rethink recycling?
Criticize recycling and you may as well be using a fume-spewing chainsaw to chop down ancient redwoods, as far as most environmentalists are concerned. But recent research into the environmental costs and benefits and some tough-to-ignore market realities have even the most ardent of recycling fans questioning the current system.
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Ikea to use packaging made from mushrooms that will decompose in a garden within weeks
Ikea is planning to use packaging made with mushrooms as an eco-friendly replacement for polystyrene. The furniture retailer is looking at using the biodegradable mycelium “fungi packaging” as part of its efforts to reduce waste and increase recycling, Joanna Yarrow, head of sustainability for Ikea in the U.K., said.
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Why Is Styrofoam Still a Thing?
It might not have the sexiest name, but expanded polystyrene is truly a wonder material. Widely—and incorrectly—known by the trademarked name Styrofoam™, this lightweight substance is crafted from petroleum-based polystyrene beads, which are stretched out during an intricate steaming and moulding process. The resulting product is 98 percent air, extraordinarily cheap to manufacture, and has widespread...
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The Californian craft beer brewed from waste water
A San Francisco brewery is using Nasa technology to make beer with water from sinks and showers, while other brewers are finding new ways to go green
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Dissolving the Dead
An Ontario entrepreneur really wants to send your body down the drain. By Graeme Bayliss.
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Apple recovered 2,204 pounds of gold from broken iPhones last year
As if Apple needed the cash, the company has discovered a way to make tens of millions of dollars off of old, broken, unwanted iPhones. In its annual environmental report released this week, Apple said it recovered 2,204 pounds (more than a ton) of gold from recycled iPhones, iPads and Macs last year. That's $40 million worth. Gold is used in consumer electronics because it is highly averse to corrosion and an excellent conductor of electricity.
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Cash for cans decision a tipping point
Picking up discarded water bottles is about to get lucrative, with the NSW cabinet voting to adopt a 10¢ container deposit scheme to start in July next year. Despite intense opposition from the drinks industry, the Baird government has chosen to support a community-backed recycling scheme for drink containers, as it seeks to reduce litter by 40 per cent by 2020.
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SF Passes Most Expansive Styrofoam Ban in US
San Francisco on Tuesday adopted the nation’s most extensive ban on Styrofoam, according to the supervisors who sponsored the legislation. The Board of Supervisors unanimously voted to outlaw polystyrene foam, better known by its brand name, as it relates from everything from egg cartons to buoys as of Jan. 1, 2017. The old legislation, enacted in 2007, banned the product as it related to food packaging. Now most every product made of Styrofoam — down to the beach coolers sold at the grocery store — are now forbidden in San Francisco.
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Collecting cans to survive: a ‘dark future’ as California recycling centers vanish
Poor and homeless San Franciscans rely on income earned by trading cans for cash, but their subsistence is under threat as hundreds of centers close down. By Julia Carrie Wong.
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The 2020 Olympics may have medals made from electronic waste
Organizers of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics are hoping to source the gold, silver and bronze needed to make medals for the games from millions of discarded smartphones and other small consumer electronics. Japan, one of the world's most gadget-obsessed nations, has 16 percent of the world's gold and 22 percent of the planet's silver currently sitting inside its consumer electronics.
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Dunkin' Donuts is still serving coffee in Styrofoam cups 6 years after saying it would stop
For years, Dunkin' Donuts has said it would replace its iconic plastic foam cups with cups that are more environmentally friendly. In a 2010 report, the coffee chain said it considered its use of foam to be "the most prominent sustainability issue we must deal with."
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