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Poland Introducing Recyclable Subway Car
The Polish subway system will be getting a new type of subway car in 2012 that will be 97.5 percent recyclable with 40 percent of the materials being locally-sourced. The train is called the Inspiro...
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New York Gets Free, Convenient E-Cycling…For Another Week
New Yorkers are getting the gift of free, convenient e-waste recycling, but unfortunately they’ll have to rush to take advantage of it. Apple store and service facility, Tekserve, and the Lower East...
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Japanese Inventor Creates Machine that Converts Plastic Bags into Fuel
Plastic bags have been the enemy of environmentalists for pretty much as long as they have existed. Not only are they made from oil, but they clog our landfills for hundreds of years. Many cities,...
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Electronics Companies Vow to Triple E-Cycling Rates
A group of consumer electronics companies have vowed to up their e-cycling rates to 1 billion pounds a year by 2016, which would more than triple the amount of electronic waste recycled in 2010 (300...
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Robot Finds Recyclable Material Among Construction Waste
Currently, about 100 percent of construction waste ends up in landfills, although much of it could be recycled or reused. A Finnish robotics company called ZenRobotics wants to change that. It has...
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Biodegradable Plastics Are Adding to Landfill Methane Emissions
The merits of biodegradable plastics have been uncertain, but a new study that appears in the journal Environmental Science & Technology says that though these types of plastics aren’t littering...
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Texas Law Requires TV Manufacturers to Offer Free Recycling
The Texas state legislature has passed a bill that will require television manufacturers who sell TVs in the state to offer free recycling programs to consumers. Governor Rick Perry signed the bill...
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Recycling Satellites in Orbit
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has its eye on $300 billion worth of obsolete, failed, and non-functioning satellites in geosynchronous orbit, with an eye toward collecting...
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U.K. Gets Vending Machines for Recycling Batteries, Light Bulbs
We all know that batteries and CFL light bulbs don’t belong in the trash, but recycling locations are not always convenient. What if your local retail stores just had a vending machine where you could...
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Austin May Ban Plastic and Paper Bags
The City of Austin, Texas may enact one of the toughest bag bans in the country come 2016. The city council is set to vote on the ban next month that would require retailers to only offer reusable...
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