Saturday, September 4th, 2010

The fight for the planet is on. It is now fully proven, undeniably, evident that the earth is fighting for its life. During its short but deadly lifespan, human civilization has managed to place a devastating strain on the planet’s resources and health.
It is now our duty to reverse this ill effect, even though it [...]

The dangers to the environment caused by greenhouse gas omissions’ resulting in global warming has become more of a hot-topic of late. Inevitably this has led to recycling becoming an everyday part of life, seeing many companies investigating ways to turn it into a profitable part of business.

With the amount of mobile phones lying unused [...]

Many people are nostalgic about old things and lamps are such decoration items one finds difficult to part with. You may often hear complaints that nowadays you can’t find a decent lamp anymore, they are no longer what they were once. The first argument the elderly bring is low quality, which is true sometimes; low [...]

Recycling has become the most general world-wide issue of public interest over the last decades, as alarmingly high pollution levels and weather changes made everybody think about saving good materials from being thrown away. Specialists claim that, in two hundred years, men cut down 95% of the old forests. So, it was definitely high time [...]

According to recent estimates, there are roughly 350 million cartridges end up in landfills every year. Of course, this is a just an estimated number which is likely to increase with the time. Interestingly, the number could easily be reduced to a great extend. The situation can be easily controlled by if people start putting [...]

Printer Toner Cartridges create over 1.9 billion pounds of non-biodegradable waste. But when you buy a recycled toner cartridge you are helping save the planet, right? Well, yes and no. Certain popular cartridges are still being thrown into the landfills. Why?

There is an overabundance of certain popular virgin [...]

Companies that recycle plastic recover the material and reprocess it in any other useful form, transforming plastic drink bottles, for instance, into toys or some other useful item. Before being recycled, plastic must be sorted according to a resin identification code, thus, drink pets have code 1, for instance. However, one of the the biggest [...]

Many business owners have to face the difficulty or the challenge to recycle styrofoam. Not all attempts to re-use this material are successful, particularly when it takes great efforts to get rid of large amounts of left overs. Styrofoam is very cheap to produce, so it should not take too complex procedures to dispose of [...]

Clothing items are probably the easiest to reuse since they can have a wide range of applicability besides the function for which they were designed in the first place. Consider for instance some ways to recycle wool sweaters! This may look like a challenge but it could be both fun and totally rewarding if you [...]

Today, being Green is a necessity. It’s not just for hippies and tree huggers any more. Actually being a tree hugger is a good thing, but that’s another article. We are in a time that if we continue our bad habits, the children of our not too distant future will not have one.
The 20th Century [...]