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As we progress on our worm composting project, many folks have asked us why we are doing this. We really thought the questions would be how, so we pause to give a few reasons why this should be done, then you can have fun with the how Link to full …

Nine months after a new fee-based waste collection programme was introduced in the city of Kyoto, the volume of household garbage generated by residents had dropped by some 17 percent and the volume of recyclables was some 21 per cent lower compared to the previous year, according to a city …

Green PC, the great little green blog on all things to do with personal computing, has come up with this superb list of action you can do both at home and at work to lower the impact of your IT. A New Year‘‘s action resolution. Natural Choices reports that the …

Biodegradable plastics have gotten cheaper and more reliable, but some still object to their ecological footprint, according to The Christian Science Monitor Paper, plastic… or biodegradable? Yes, get ready to add a third option at the grocery store checkout line as biodegradable plastics enter the mainstream consumer market. It is …

A US start-up company Novomer is developing biodegradable plastics made from carbon dioxide. Environmentalresearchweb reports that the company, which recently received US$6.6 m in venture capital funding, claims that its plastics can contain up to 50% of the material by weight. Carbon dioxide is very unreactive and chemists have in …

Scientists in New York are reporting development of a new biodegradable "nanohybrid" plastic that can be engineered to decompose much faster than existing plastics used in everything from soft drink bottles to medical implants. Science Daily reports that the plastic is a modified form of polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB), a promising biodegradable …

The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency is promoting the recycling of certain petroleum secondary materials into fuel. This effort, which will revise the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act regulations, is expected to help petroleum refineries reduce waste and capture more energy from each barrel of oil by allowing for the …

The publication is part of efforts to raise farmer awareness ahead of the expected introduction of a Statutory Producer Responsibility (PR) scheme. The main thrust of the scheme should see non-packaging plastic producers and importers given responsibility for funding collection of the waste, with every farm across the country given …