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Are Plastic Bags Always a Bad Thing?
There’s probably no single item that has become quite such an iconic emblem of our throw-away culture as the plastic bag. Whether it’s images of them floating like...
China Goes Green in Recycling Effort
The Scale of the Problem in China
China is acknowledged as the fastest growing country in the world, both in terms of its population, now over 1 billion and...
CSI Dustbin: The World of Forensic Waste
It’s no accident that archaeologists love old rubbish dumps. Excavating ancient tips can reveal a great deal about the lives of the people who...
Eco-Schools
Sustainable education in the UK's schools is a new initiative seeking to turn the country's schools and our kids greener.
The Eco-Schools project, run by the...
Educating About Recycling
The key to efficient recycling is knowing what can and can't be recycled where to take the material, and how the process works. This approach might also lead an...
Generating Power From Waste
Dealing with the huge amount of waste being thrown into landfill sites on a daily basis and exploring the growing need to find new solutions to the massive consumption...
How To Recycle Used Gas Canisters
Many householders in the UK have the luxury of gas supplied through a mains pipe, and receive a monthly bill. For those who don't, gas must be bought in containable...
Purchasing Power
Most people are now aware that recycling household waste will help the environment by saving natural resources and reducing the amount of waste for disposal. However,...
Recycling Around The World
This article will explore some of the attitudes to and initiatives within the world of recycling, in various European cities and one American city. Policies toward...
Recycling at Christmas
Everybody is aware of the bustle of getting ready for Christmas, and most people, particularly parents, breathe a sigh of relief once the festivities are over. Its...
Recycling PC's and Protecting Your Data
A Computer-Charged World
Most people in the developed world use computers in some way every day. This might be at home, in an office...
Recycling Sewage: Heat from Dung
The best example of using heat from dung is witnessing nomads of the Gobi Desert and Mongolia collecting dried dung from their sheep and camels. This is then stored...
Recycling, Personal Information and Identity Theft
Your rubbish can tell a lot about you, and for obvious reasons, most of us would really rather that it didn’t! ‘Bin diving’ – rummaging through...
The Anthropology of Rubbish and Recycling
Anthropologists and archaeologists the world over and particularly in the UK and US are now turning their investigations on to how societies have...
The Art of Recycling
Collecting objects that would normally be thrown away and converting them into art, has long been a favourite technique of many artists.
This practice is now much...
Ways to Reduce Packaging and Household Waste
As well as learning what can be recycled where to recycle stuff, and what the recycling process entails, it is important to take a step backwards and...
