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Thursday, July 22, 2010
Reducing Greenhouse Emissions by Turning Trash From Landfills Into Alternative Energy
Posted by: Brad Roderick
Day in and day out people throw out trash which eventually ends up in landfills across the country. What many people don’t do is think about how that trash can be used to benefit the environment. In the Philippines however, men and women are gathering at the Payatas dumpsite, the largest in the Philippines, to gather trash that can be turned into alternative energy.
Here is a video from cnn.com about the efforts to reduce green house emissions in the Philippines.
Friday, June 18, 2010
Earth911 Named Official Recycling Partner of the Consumer Electronics Association
Posted by: Brad Roderick
Here is an article from Earth911.com about their announcement to be the recycling partner of the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). Through the partnership, both the CEA and Earth911 hope to make electronic information more accessible.
Earth911 Named Official Recycling Partner of the Consumer Electronics Association
(Scottsdale, AZ and Arlington, VA) – The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)® and Earth911 today announced a partnership to make information about electronics recycling easier to access than ever. The largest trade association promoting growth in the consumer electronics industry, CEA will work with Earth911 as the official recycling partner of CEA and the International CES® to bring new e-cycling resources to both mobile and web platforms.
“CEA has worked diligently over many years to increase consumer awareness of the importance of recycling their electronics products,” said Gary Shapiro, president and CEO of CEA. “We’re pleased to expand that effort through the resources available from Earth911.”
“Earth911 is thrilled to have the opportunity to continue to educate consumers about electronics recycling, in tandem with the leading industry association,” said Corey Lambrecht, president of Earth911. “Additionally, we look forward to working with the forward-thinking members of CEA to enhance the availability of electronics recycling resources for their customers.”
Friday, June 18, 2010
6 Ways to Reuse Scraps
Posted by: Brad Roderick
I would like to share an article from yahoo.com, by Ronnie Citron-Fink, about how these six items, made from scraps, can help reduce landfill waste.
Six ingenious things to make from scraps
Breathe new life into old objects and reduce landfill waste by diverting leftover odds and ends that would be relegated to the dumpster into useful items.
Call it repurposing, call it recrafting, call it creative reuse, or call it trash transformed. No matter what you call it, this concept of “cradle to cradle” is one of the tenants of green living. It means that a product’s lifecycle doesn’t have to end up forever rotting away in a landfill. It can be endlessly reincarnated into useful items.
We EcoNesters talk a lot about purging clutter, living slower, donating and thrifting, and living minimally. So, this post is going to take a different tact. It isn’t going to tell you that hording some things isn’t such a bad idea. In fact, hold onto those scraps.
But, wait a minute … scraps are junk, right? Not so fast. Scrap items can be put to use and given a “life after waste.” In fact, the end products of materials are often called salvage. That’s a great word for things that are “saved from the ruins” and eventually end up in dumpsters.
If you’re like me, you’ve got all sorts of scraps hanging around just ready for a new practical renaissance of sorts. Think of it as part of the transformation of renewal for living a more resourceful life.
Scrap renewal projects using…
1. Yarn
If you read my posts with any regularity, you know that knitting is my number one DIY project of choice. Yarn scraps abound in the needle world, and this pin cushion from Craft Leftovers via the Craftzine blog is perhaps one of the best uses I’ve seen for small amounts of yarn scraps.
2. Wood
Keep those wood scraps out of the burn pile and make a beautiful and unique scrap wood cutting board from instructables.
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Computer Recycling: Hazardous Waste Recycled
Posted by: Brad Roderick
I would like to share a refreshing article from emagazine.com, written by Sven G. Simonsen, about Norway and its efforts to cut down on electronic waste.
Electronic Recycling Done Right
Norway Leads the World in Collecting and Recycling E-Waste
While consumers across the world increasingly recycle their old batteries, coffee makers and MP3 players, most electric and electronic waste from offices and factories still ends up in landfills. But in Norway, an industry-run program now collects 98% of such waste.
Industrial machines, high voltage equipment, escalators, pumps, generators and other machinery often pack more environmentally harmful materials than consumer goods. But governments have so far mostly failed to establish systems to take care of such waste. As a result, enormous amounts of hazardous materials and greenhouse gases are released into nature.
Ten years ago, that was also the case for Norway. Only 5% of electric and electronic (EE) waste from enterprises was collected. But in 1999, a program negotiated between the industry and the government came into effect, which in four years boosted the ratio to over 80%.
Friday, June 4, 2010
Google Offsetting 45,000 Homes Using Carbon Credits Made from Waste
Posted by: Brad Roderick
I would like to share an article from treehugger.com, written by Jaymi Heimbuch, that looks at Google’s involvement with the Berkeley Green Power Project, which aims to create enough carbon offsets to equal electricity emissions of 45,000 homes annually.
Google Offsetting 45,000 Homes Using Carbon Credits Made from Waste
Google is a big promoter of green energy, from dreaming up possibilities of their own (like using wave power for data centers) to investing in and customizing alternative energy projects (like super efficient and cheap solar panels). Now, the Internet giant is moving into promoting landfill waste-to-energy and gaining ground in its goal to be a carbon neutral company by purchasing carbon offsets in a new project in Berkeley County, South Carolina.
In a joint effort by the Berkeley County Water & Sanitation (BCWS), Blue Source, Google and Santee Cooper, the Berkeley Green Power Project is turning biogas into about 3 MW of electricity, enough to power 15,000 homes in the Southeast. The project will also create roughly 200,000 to 300,000 metric tons of carbon offsets – equal to the emissions from electricity used by approximately 30,000 to 45,0000 US households annually – at least some of which Google is purchasing.
Environmental Leader writes, “Blue Source will quantify and market the emission reductions in the form of voluntary carbon credits. The company plans to register the third-party verified credits created by the project on the Climate Action Reserve’s public registry. The project is said to be the first of its kind to be implemented along South Carolina’s coast. The credits Google purchases will be retired and not allowed to be further sold or traded.”