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In Germany coffins weighing only 12 kg made from 85% waste paper and which pack flat are on sale. Although they cost half the price of a wooden coffin, their appearance is similar. One of their advantages is reduced air pollution at crematoriums

The Lakeland recycling office is collecting out-of-date phone books through March 25. Link:

An answer to the Explainer’s 2007 Question of the Year Link:

You would probably imagine that New York City with its dense 8.2 million population and towering apartment blocks would struggle to cope with recycling. So how does it compare to London and its 7.6 million residents? Link:

Highly efficient fluorescent light bulbs are widely touted as environmentally friendly, but they have created a recycling headache for the EPA and local governments. More often than not, their toxic ingredients simply end up in landfills, where the chemicals can leach into soil and water and poison fish and other …

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:

Louisville officials are looking for help to determine how quickly the Outer Loop Landfill is filling up. Officials can’t tell whether an experimental process for digesting and compacting waste is working as well as the landfill’s manager, Waste Management Inc., had promised. So they have hired a University of Louisville …

A new reactor could make chemically recycling carbon dioxide back into petrol a worthwhile endeavour, US scientists say Link:

I’m a big fan of recycling. I try to recycle whatever I can — paper, plastics, glass, aluminum — whenever I can. I was under the impression that recycling produces less waste than dumping in landfills and is better for the environment in general Link:

Cairo — At a school unlike any in the Middle East, 15-year-old Magdi Shenuda learns how to use a computer to track the number of plastic bottles he recycled in the past month. Link: