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If using renewable energy rates an 9 on the sustainability scale, and coupling it with energy storage brings that to 10 … well, the Canadian province of Manitoba plans to test energy technologies that could, in the words of Spinal Tap guitarist Nigel Tufnel, “go to 11.” Working with the lithium-ion
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It’s a shame when well-intended organisations working toward the same goals end up butting heads instead. But in the case of Keep Britain Tidy versus the British Retail Consortium, the BRC is right: the key message we should be sending citizens today is, “Recycle what you can,” not, “Toss
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The recent controversy over Frito-Lay’s biodegradable — but noisy — SunChips bag illustrates just how hard it can be for a well-intentioned consumer-oriented company to go green. Rolled out with great fanfare after four years in development, the compostable crisps bag was yanked by Frito-Lay North America last month after customer
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With groggy eyes and messed up, bed-head hair I stumble down the stairs of my studio flat in central London, wrestling three large and unwieldy boxes as I go. It’s 7.15 in the morning and it;s cold and wet outside — the last thing I want is to
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How many times must we have this lesson drummed into our heads: if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. That apparently was the case with a group of recycling companies that has wound up in the High Court for failing to deliver on promises of massive
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A material now tossed away with every old television set could be recycled and used to help doctors regenerate human tissue and administer medications, according to new research from the University of York. Used widely in industry, the chemical compound polyvinyl-alcohol (PVA) is a key element of television sets with
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Nearly 4 out of 10 UK recycling firms are on shaky financial footing, according to a report published in Materials Recycling Week. The article cites research from the analyst organisation Plimsoll Publishing, which gave 23 per cent of the top recycling firms a financial “danger” rating, and gave a “caution”
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The University of Leicester’s Environment Team and Portering & Cleaning Service (PACS) have won Green Apple Awards for their Big Green Week and Recycling Scheme. The university’s David Wilson Library also was named a runner-up in the local Leicester Green Life Awards. The extension and refurbishment of the
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The UK recycled almost two-thirds of all its packaging last year, according to the latest figures from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and the Environment Agency. In all, British businesses helped recover more than seven million tonnes of packaging waste, of which 6.6 million tonnes
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A new online materials exchange system aims to reduce the amount of materials headed to landfills in Puerto Rico. The free and bilingual Puerto Rico Materials Exchange, unveiled by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Puerto Rico Solid Waste Management Authority (SWMA), lets organisations and individuals advertise, request
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OK, so now we humans really have no excuse for not making a better effort to recycle: the Associated Press reported this week that a pair of common magpies in Hong Kong recently built a nest made with twig-like scraps of metal believed to have come from a nearby construction
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Think “carbon neutral,” and two things not likely to spring to mind are “Las Vegas” and “International Consumer Electronics Show.” But those two things are precisely where Motorola has decided to unveil its newest innovation for the eco-conscious mobile-phone user: the MOTO W233 Renew. Certified as CarbonFree® by no less