Cutting down on the use of paper is easy enough, but in spite of all your efforts you’ll never become 100% paperless. That’s where tree free paper comes in. Recently launched on the market by GPA, a Chicago paper company, Ultra Green Paper is 100% tree free. And of equal importance; the paper is produced […]

Householders are missing a chance to share in the results of huge profits generated by the soaring value of recyclable domestic rubbish, The Times has learnt.
The price of recyclable plastic, newspaper and cardboard has doubled in 18 months, giving councils a source of “green gold” that could be spent on improving local […]

California is officially in a drought with many of us now facing water restrictions. So it may interest you to hear the ideas of a Bay Area scientist who wants to recycle the worlds’ dirty water.
This invention isn’t going to magically reverse the drought or give us more water to drink. But it may, at […]

Ensuring that our children have a good understanding of their effect of upon the environment will prove essential not only for their generation but for numerous generations to come.

Over seven billion Pepsi cans will be branded with recycling messages provided by the National Recycling Coalition as part of Pepsi’s new “Have we met before?” campaign.
The purpose of the campaign is to show that new aluminum cans are produced with at least 40 percent recycled aluminum. Recycling factoids will be featured on 750 million […]

An A-Z guide to what you can recycle, and where to do it…
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Aerosols
Around 75% of local authorities will accept aerosols via recycling banks or kerbside collection schemes.  Remove the lid, etc, and make sure it is completely empty but do not pierce, crush or flatten any aerosol can.
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Batteries
Unfortunately only a few local authorities operate battery collection […]