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New uses for old wine corks

Posted May 29th 2008 12:03PM by Shayna Glick
Filed under: West Coast, On the Blogs

I had a friend once who saved the corks from wine bottles. He said that he sent them to his brother for some reason or other I can't remember now. Now there really is a reason to save your corks (and not just for all those cork stamps you've been planning on making).

According to Chow: The Grinder, a new program called ReCORK America is operating in Oregon and California. ReCORK America collects and recycles used wine corks. It's sponsored by a Portugese cork manufacturer, Amorim, and works mainly with institutions that go though a lot of corks. However, they also have drop off centers so individuals can also participate.

Tip of the Day: Reuse and re-purpose "trash" for Earth Day

Posted Apr 22nd 2008 6:02AM by Shayna Glick
Filed under: Tip of the Day

In honor of Earth Day, here are a few things you can do to keep common "trash" items out of the landfills.

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Coca Cola going from red to green

Posted Feb 20th 2008 11:01AM by Shayna Glick

Everyone nowadays is concerned about the environment. Big business is especially concerned with its image. It wants the valuable consumers that a good green image can bring.

Coca Cola is no different, of course. The soft drink giant has already taken a number of steps to green-ify its image. The beverage maker has already pledged to recycle all of its plastic packaging in the US. Now it's time to tackle aluminum. Coca Cola has now decided that it will recycle 100% of the aluminum cans produced in the US.

To coordinate everything, the drink maker even created a whole division dedicated to collecting and recycling all of its waste packaging. Coca Cola Recycling just built a plant in South Carolina. The division says that the aluminum recycling initiative will use 95% less energy and reduce carbon emissions by 95% than creating new cans.

So here you go; another big company working to beef up its green image. I think it's great. A company as big as Coca Cola recycling all of its waste can make a huge impact on what goes in the landfills. It also makes a lot of business sense. So this kind of thing is a win-win for everyone.

Environmental groups continue to denounce use of chopsticks

Posted Feb 8th 2008 4:00PM by Ellen Slattery
Filed under: Business, Asia, Newspapers

Chinese environmental activists continue to protest the country's use of disposable chopsticks, an industry that churns out about 63 billion pairs a year, according to The Wall Street Journal. Just yesterday, activists stormed a Microsoft Corporation cafeteria to alert patrons to the damage the utensils were doing to forests.

China is already mobilizing to decrease its reliance on disposable chopsticks. Since November, about 300 restaurants have promised to replace them with reusable chopsticks, and in 2006, the government levied a 5% tax on these and other products they deemed environmentally unfriendly.

And to go along with their attempts to green the Beijing Olympics this summer, many events will not offer disposable chopsticks to visitors.

But the industry that activists are protesting is one that employs over 100,000 people in China, and provides well-needed jobs for people in poorer areas (some younger activists are experiencing conflicting feelings, as their parents make a living producing the very product that they are condemning). And Lian Guang, president of the Wooden Chopsticks Trade Association, told the WSJ that the company uses leftover wood or wood from trees that are not endangered, like birch, poplar, and bamboo.

But though activists are encouraging Chinese citizens to tote their own pair of reusable chopsticks (much like the U.S. is encouraging people to use their own water bottles), it doesn't look like the disposable chopstick industry is going anywhere anytime soon.

Making paper from apples

Posted Apr 17th 2006 8:05PM by Nick Vagnoni
Filed under: Science, Fruit, Europe

An Italian inventor has developed a way to make paper from apple by-products, according to a recent release on FreshPlaza.com. About two years ago, Dr. Albert Volcan (right) began work on the process of drying, cooling and grinding waste from apple juice production. He has since fine tuned the method so that the apple waste doesn't ferment and is thus able to produce a stable paper product that is being called Cartamela. For you Italian speakers, more info is available at EcoApple.com.

Kai Into Compost

Posted Jan 15th 2006 3:29PM by Andrew Barrow
Filed under: Trends, New Zealand

The city council in Wellington, New Zealand is embracing green issues with the start of a new scheme entitled Kai into Compost.

Now I am waiting to hear that this is a widespread practice throughout all forward thinking cities but Wellington is trailing the scheme to collect kitchen waste from food outlets and turn it into compost.

A truck collects kitchen waste from 50 hotels, supermarkets, restaurants and other food serving establishments and dumps it in a municipal compost plant.17% of waste that ends up in landfall is food waste which breaks down into harmful leachates and methane this can only be an environmental sound policy. They hope to extend the collection to household food waste shortly.

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New uses for old wine corks

Tip of the Day: Reuse and re-purpose "trash" for Earth Day

Coca Cola going from red to green

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