The eco-artist turns the things we throw away into stunning decorative objects--from chandeliers made of washed up trash, to coffee tables made of broken rear-view mirrors. READ»
Landfills now have a use besides stinking up large areas of land. The South Korean government is working on a project to produce hydrogen from natural biogases (aka methane) produces in landfills.
The facility, which is being ...READ»
It's always important to keep unintended consequences in mind with multi-billion dollar programs like Cash for Clunkers. Take the problem of Germany's Cash for Clunkers program, which debuted in January.
As in the U.S. program, ...READ»
Just as barcoding trees could help save forests, electronically tagging trash could limit waste. That's the thinking behind MIT's Trash Track program, that will use electronic tags to track waste in its trip through the ...READ»
A hot topic at this meet-up of solid-waste execs will be the booming business of trash to cash.
Some 55% of American waste still ends up in landfills, and operators in
this $52 billion industry have long been required to collect ...READ»
Billionaire adventurer and environmentalist David de Rothschild spoke yesterday at the Greener by Design conference about his upcoming journey with six crew members from San Francisco, California to Sydney, Australia on the ...READ»
It's a nearly impossible to prevent the spread of disease in slums filled with mountains and rivers of trash. Finding fuel to heat stoves for residents of said slums isn't much easier. All of this is why the "Community ...READ»
The movie Idiocracy paints a bleak (yet hilarious) picture of a future overtaken by thousand-foot-high landfills that topple over into the streets. Fortunately, a Montreal-based biofuel and green chemical company called Enerkem ...READ»
