Bring your recyclable items to our recycling center on Thursday November 2 2017! Our first day of the 2017/2018 season! Recycle Day is on first Thursday of every month, from 9.00am – 11.00am., when people bring their sorted and crushed items for recycling to our center at the East Cape […]
Daily Archives: October 17, 2017
From packing peanuts to disposable coffee cups, each year the US alone produces some two billion pounds of Styrofoam — none of which can be recycled. Frustrated by this waste of resources and landfill space, Ashton Cofer and his science fair teammates developed a heating treatment to break down used […]
Young inventor’s plan to recycle Styrofoam
Mexico was the largest recycler of PET plastic containers in the Americas last year, according to the non-governmental organization Ecoce. Recycled plastic amounted to 425,000 tonnes in 2016, up 50% from the previous year, said the organization, an umbrella group of food and beverage firms. The amount represents 57% of the […]
Mexico: largest recycler of PET plastic containers in the Americas
San Diego restaurants will stop serving plastic straws! Hopefully more restaurants will follow their lead! In the mean time, you can start by asking waiters to not put plastic straws in your drinks and/or ask your favorite restaurants to stop serving them. Americans use an estimated 500 million plastic straws a […]
San Diego Restaurants Stopping Plastic Straws!
Narayana Peesapaty, of Hyderabad, India, has baked up a brilliant product. Bakeys are edible spoons, forks and chopsticks you can eat with and then eat. Read more here: https://goo.gl/nG5vUg
Edible utensils: where can we get them?!
This Grocery Bag Won’t Hurt Animals — It Actually Feeds Them These “Eco Bags” might be what takes down plastic. People around the world use and discard more than a trillion plastic bags each year. A significant percentage of these bags end up littered across ecosystems, especially oceans, where they […]