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In the presence of lawmakers and local dignitaries, officials at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), at the California Institute of Technology, in Pasadena, cut the ribbon on a new, environmentally friendly Flight Projects Center building at the lab today. The new structure is the American space agency's g... |
27 October 2009
08:54 GMT |
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A woman's love for her dog might have just saved her life. After failing to hear from her for a couple of days, friends of 76-year-old Mary Davis went to her house, only to find her trapped inside a 25-gallon plastic recycling tank, essentially folded in half. She most likely got thrown off her feet by her dog D... |
6 March 2009
08:47 GMT |
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Plastic wastes, which come from an abundance of sources, including wrapping, bottles and other commodities, take more than one hundred years to disintegrate when left into the environment, which makes them one of the most harmful substances on the planet. Even so, it would seem that people are more than willing to bu... |
3 March 2009
03:09 GMT |
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Another brave effort on the part of Greenpeace has revealed the fact that the United Kingdom is in contradiction with European norms, as far as disposing of e-waste goes. Activists from the group mounted a GPS tracking device in an old TV set, which they then took to a recycling site. The chip showed that the apparat... |
20 February 2009
09:17 GMT |
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T-Mobile USA, Inc. and Motorola have announced today that the MOTO W233 Renew is available for retail for any eco-conscious consumer. The handset is the first one of the kind, and was initially released only for T-Mobile's subscribers. As many of you already know, Renew comes with a plastic phone housing made ou... |
4 February 2009
04:38 GMT |
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Regenersis announced recently that they made a random sampling of two thousand recycled mobile phones, and according to them, around 99 percent of the sampled devices were still containing personal data of the owners, including banking information or confidential email correspondence.Over 2 million mobile phones were... |
2 February 2009
09:33 GMT |
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Mobile Compost, an initiative in Sweden, is targeted at getting old mobile phones out of circulation, while also reusing the precious metals they contain. A mobile phone shop in a Stockholm suburb is the place where people can acquire new handsets while also disposing of their older models. The initiative is aimed at... |
19 January 2009
05:43 GMT |
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A company called PMGI/Productive Recycling recently announced that it had devised a new method of disposing of discarded tires from the automotive industry. Roughly 300 million used tires are generated in the United States alone every year, and they amount to one of the most hard to solve problems the country is face... |
12 January 2009
06:10 GMT |
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The reuse part of the reduce-reuse-recycle “trinity” is the most important of all, because it sets the bases for reducing the amount of chemicals you consume on a daily basis, in terms of plastic packages, gasoline and the likes, and also downsizes the importance of recycling, which usually involves the u... |
7 January 2009
04:59 GMT |
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When it comes to figuring out the best indoor lighting solution for widespread use, authorities in most countries have split opinions, as do the health advisors and the scientific community. In other words, although legislation already exists in Europe and the US – regulating the time frame for the removal of i... |
7 January 2009
04:40 GMT |
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Environment-friendly computer users in Washington now have a reason to rejoice – some 200 permanent recycle centers for old computers and television sets will be opened in their area starting January 2009. The centers will be operated free of charge, and everyone will be able to drop off their electronics devic... |
30 December 2008
04:19 GMT |
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Every year the Vatican receives a Christmas tree from some corner of the world, as part of its tradition, and this year the Holy See got a 33-meter high, 120-year old tree from the Southern forest of Austria, which will decorate the state's square until Christmas passes. Officials have announced that the wood th... |
15 December 2008
04:45 GMT |
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Recently, the reputed specialists from H-Arquitectes in Barcelona have completed their laminated wood house, built on a natural rock platform on the hills of Vacarisses, in Catalunya, Spain. The construction needed almost two years and a €200.000 budget to be completed, but the results prove the efforts were no... |
13 December 2008
04:33 GMT |
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If you do not like the idea of having a tree dying in your home during the holidays, you should know that using artificial fir trees is not among the brightest ideas. Regular decorations or Christmas lights bought from store are not very good, either. Also, if you're into bestowing some of the spirit of Christma... |
9 December 2008
09:21 GMT |
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Friends of the Earth Canada, the Polaris Institute, the Council of Canadians, Wellington Water Watchers and Ecojustice are the organizations that filed a misleading ad warning against international corporation Nestle, which, they say, distorted the truth in the commercials on bottled water. The largest food company i... |
2 December 2008
02:24 GMT |
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A part of the expensive urine and sweat recycling device installed aboard the International Space Station, namely the one involved in purifying the astronaut's urine and convert it into potable water, failed, announced the flight controllers yesterday. Ground control technicians are assessing the possibility of ... |
22 November 2008
06:24 GMT |
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As previously described, the space shuttle Endeavour has recently taken off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, carrying a crew of 7 astronauts that will upgrade the living and resting quarters of the International Space Station. Besides that and some tools for scientific experiments, the team will provide the ... |
15 November 2008
05:27 GMT |
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An innovative technique, devised by Geoplasma (GP), an Atlanta-based company, will be used to power up some 50,000 homes in Florida. The new technology could have been a part of a SF movie just a few years ago, as it incorporates plasma beams to vaporize the trash. But GP officials say that their new processing unit ... |
11 November 2008
03:49 GMT |
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A company from California, Carbon Sciences, has managed to effectively turn CO2 emissions into chemical compounds that could be reused in fuels or other such useful industrial products. It seems that the recent successful technological discovery concerning the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is not... |
13 October 2008
08:33 GMT |
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Besides the fact that they could save a lot of space from being filled with plastic bottles, the newly-found bacterial engineers can also turn cheap, environment-unfriendly PET plastic in bottles into a biodegradable type of plastic named PHA.One of the many applications of the PHA plastic is in medicine, where it co... |
22 September 2008
10:44 GMT |
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Following Nokia's go-green initiative, Samsung Electronics America announced the upcoming launch of SAMSUNG RECYCLING DIRECT, a program that will allow North American consumers to easily recycle Samsung products, from mobile phones to LCDs. SAMSUNG RECYCLING DIRECT will debut on the 1st of October, when con... |
4 September 2008
08:08 GMT |
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Ever wondered what happens to your old clothes after you're done with them? Or maybe we should say "if" you're done with them. The fashion landscape has changed so much over the past decade and "accessibility" has become one of the most meaningful concepts of the contemporary world. High-end designers such ... |
3 June 2008
10:43 GMT |
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Pulsars are a type of rapidly rotating neutron stars with powerful magnetic fields, capable of projecting a beam of electromagnetic radiation that sweeps the surrounding space as they rotate. They are usually found in the company of white dwarf stars, although the latest addition to the long list of pulsars seems to ... |
16 May 2008
03:34 GMT |
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The permanent crew on board the International Space Station is now formed of only three astronauts, but it will soon be able to support a complement of six, meaning that it will require a new water reclamation system to recycle the water used on board. The newly built water recovery systems, which will be set to fit ... |
13 May 2008
09:56 GMT |
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Retired consumer electronics appliances could bring you a fortune, even before recycling, if you decided to mine them for precious metals. The new trend is as scientific as possible, and even got a name: "Urban mining". The idea behind it is the fact that scrap parts hold significant amounts of gold, silver, copper, ... |
29 April 2008
06:55 GMT |
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As you probably know, yesterday was "Earth Day", and an extremely appropriate time for Dell to introduce its Green consumer desktop PC. The company seems to make important steps towards the small desktop computing market, and the model introduced yesterday is touted as the smallest and the most eco-friendly device of... |
23 April 2008
11:18 GMT |
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Open-source fans worldwide have made a habit out of holding "install-fests", the equivalent of a practical training, where non-technicians get to know the benefits of using Linux and other open-source applications on computers.A San Francisco non-profit foundation went a little further with the install-fest idea and ... |
3 March 2008
04:11 GMT |
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This has just come in. Apple now offers free recycling of iPods and mobiles in the UK. Not exactly breaking news, I condone, but a touching fact for environmentalists and Apple fans alike, who, despite their snob-like attitude, actually consider the planet's welfare.So, aspcadvisor.co.uk reports, Apple is not on... |
27 February 2008
11:06 GMT |
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Eco-lover Hewlett-Packard has introduced a new technological process that will help the company produce new cartridges out of raw materials obtained from recycling the used ones. I have previously told you about the C2C (cradle to cradle) products lifecycle and it seems that using it does not bring popularity amongst... |
31 January 2008
03:21 GMT |
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Now, don't get any crazy ideas by believing that your mobile telephone device has been manufactured from anything but recycled materials. Do you believe that old machinery such as airplanes just disappear into the darkness overnight? No... they get recycled like a great part of the materials our days. Do you kno... |
14 January 2008
09:52 GMT |
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Plastics are made of semisynthetic polymerization products composed of organic condensation or addition polymers and may contain other substances to improve performance or economics. Their widespread use made them indispensable in almost all industry areas.There are methods by which plastics can be broken back down... |
27 June 2007
16:36 GMT |
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Recycling prevents useful material resources being wasted, reduces the consumption of raw materials and reduces energy usage, and hence greenhouse gas emissions, compared to virgin production; it's a key concept of modern waste management and is the third component of the waste hierarchy.Recyclable materials, a... |
3 April 2007
06:03 GMT |
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