trash Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 01 Jul 2013 11:07:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Mexico City Officials Encourage Recycling by Providing Organic Produce for Trash https://www.greenoptimistic.com/mexico-city-officials-encourage-recycling-by-providing-organic-produce-for-trash-20130701/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/mexico-city-officials-encourage-recycling-by-providing-organic-produce-for-trash-20130701/#respond Mon, 01 Jul 2013 11:07:04 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=38801 The “Mercado de Trueque”, or barter market, gathered thousands of people in Mexico City on Sunday. For a second year running, thanks to this initiative, the city council was able to collect tonnes of recyclable material, which otherwise would be sent to landfills. The project was launched by the left-wing government of Mexico City in […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/mexico-city-officials-encourage-recycling-by-providing-organic-produce-for-trash-20130701/feed/ 0 38801 TGER: the Machine that Turns Trash into Electricity https://www.greenoptimistic.com/tger-the-machine-that-turns-trash-into-electricity-20080623/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/tger-the-machine-that-turns-trash-into-electricity-20080623/#comments Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:53:42 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=328 TGER is the name of the trash-eating machine. It uses multiple technologies to fuel a standard 60-kilowatt electrical generator.

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