2011 Plastic Water Bottle Recycling Rate Jumps 20%

According to the International Bottled Water Association (IBWA), the Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) water bottle recycling rate increased over the past year. The National Association for...

Biodegradable Sponge Made of Wood Fiber Cleans Up Oil Spills

Everyone most probably remembers the BP oil spill that occurred in the Gulf of Mexico back in 2010. The disaster was tremendous. Thousands of...

Seaweed Straw Designed to Disappear

Plastic straws consumption is about 500 million units per day, in the United States. Most of them end up in oceans or landfills. After...

IBM Researchers Develop Radical New Recycling Process for Old Plastic

Currently, more than 272 million metric tons of plastic are produced each year around the globe, with one-quarter of that made up of PET. To...

Metro Ticket in Exchange for Plastic Bottles in Rome

Rome introduced a new incentive to tackle plastic pollution and I'm loving it! The city officials have placed special machines on three main metro stations....

Five Green Tech – New Year’s Resolutions for 2016

Looking for New Year's resolutions? Here are five green suggestions. It is that time of the year again, wen we look in retrospect, we analyze...

Used Electric Vehicle Batteries to Power European Data Centers

It is well known that large data centers account for quite a large portion of the total energy consumption around the world, and the...

World’s Newest Ocean Plastic Waste Recycling Initiatives

The oceans are choking with plastic. Plastic waste enters in the food chain, settles on the ocean floor, gets washed off the beaches, or...

Too Much Recycling Not Good, Surprising Research Shows

It might sound crazy to suggest that Americans recycle too much, but that is exactly what Thomas Kinnaman, a Professor of Economics at Bucknell...

How Recycled Art Can Raise Awareness of Alcoholism

Millions of tons of materials are used each year to create the cans, bottles, and bottle caps used by the alcohol industry. Traditionally, the...