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• Tonnes of Food Wasted over Holidays

  
  Recycling, Green, and Environmental News — Authority: 488
  As the holiday season starts to wind down people are left with all of the excess rubbish, food, gift wrapping, boxes, can, and jars that are left behind after holiday celebrations.  This means that if each person does not take responsibility that Christmas can be a season of waste as well as joy.  One particularly ...
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• Thousands of Plastic Bags Recycled in Waltham Forest

  
  Recycling, Green, and Environmental News — Authority: 488
  The United Kingdom has come under increases scrutiny over the last year for its failure to live up to many of the recycling and waste management goals outlined by the European Union.  The EU set specific directives for each of its member nations to recycle more and to reduce the amount of waste that is produced.  ...
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• New Battery Laws for New Year

  
  Recycling, Green, and Environmental News — Authority: 488
  Battery recycling has become a key environmental issue over the last year as multiple studies carried out in the United Kingdom showed that the nation is far behind when it comes to the recycling of batteries.  In fact, a recent report showed that only around three percent of batteries are actually recycled, and the ...
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• Businesses To Report Emission Of Greenhouse Gases, Including Sulfur Hexafluoride

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  By Madhuri DeyDec. 26, (THAINDIAN NEWS) The latest step in fighting global warming has been taken. The Consumers Energy and a number of other industries have been asked by the United States government to give an estimate of the amount of greenhouse gas they produce. The latest mandate, which is likely to work at a ...
  5 days ago

• Food Trees and Paper Wasted for Christmas

  
  Recycling, Green, and Environmental News — Authority: 488
  As people gather for the holidays most are thinking about family and friends and the various parties that they will go to.  They are buying gifts for loved ones, or waiting in anticipation for what surprises they might receive.  What many of them may be surprised to find out is that Christmas is one of the most ...
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• Merry Christmas to all of you!

  
  ShoppingKharma: What comes around goes around — Authority: 116
  Here is my Christmas Wish (at the bottom of this post) and may you all enjoy my wonderful little Catelope; although I do plan to juice plenty of cantaloupes this coming year because they are full of Vitamin A and C and are very good for me and fighting cancer! They are also very fattening and thats totally what I ...
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• Companies Step up Phone Recycling Efforts

  
  Recycling, Green, and Environmental News — Authority: 488
  Since it has become widely known that mobile phones contain both valuable and toxic parts, governments around the world have been pressuring mobile phone makers to make phones greener and to initiate schemes that would increase recycling rates.  This has led to a large number of manufacturers launching innovative ...
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• Cocoa Beans used for Energy

  
  Recycling, Green, and Environmental News — Authority: 488
  One of the fastest growing segments of the environmental industry is waste to energy plants.  Businesses and companies are looking for innovative ways to turn waste into electricity and heat for homes.  Some very unlikely sources have suddenly become valuable as firms are finding more ways to turn waste into ...
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• Battery Recycling Still Behind in UK

  
  Recycling, Green, and Environmental News — Authority: 488
  Although most people in the United Kingdom have done better at recycling household waste there are still some areas in which people are falling behind.  One of these areas is battery recycling, in which the United Kingdom ranks near the bottom of the European Union.  Battery recycling is important for many reasons ...
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• Remploy E-Cycle Offers Money for E-Waste

  
  Recycling, Green, and Environmental News — Authority: 488
  E-waste has become one of the largest concerns of the recycling and waste management industries of the United Kingdom.  People and businesses are still unsure what to do with old computers, printers, monitors, and mobile phones  and many of these things end up being disposed of improperly or recycled for very little ...
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• Sellmymobile.com Has Great Success in Recycling Phones

  
  Recycling, Green, and Environmental News — Authority: 488
  Since it was revealed that there may be as many as ninety million unused mobile phones sitting around the United Kingdom there have been many sites which have popped up to try and take advantage of those that have failed to recycle their old mobile phone.  This has made mobile phone recycling one of the fastest ...
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• Best Careers In Green Technology – Top 5 Jobs In Green Energy Technology

  
  Business to Business b2b | Marketing | eCommerce | Telemarketing — Authority: 162
  It looks like green technology is going to be with us for awhile as the world looks for different fuel sources that are cleaner plus more efficient. In time of recession it may be an excellent time to search for jobs which have growth potential and you may find jobs in renewable energy plus recycling may be just the ...
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• First World Trash Turns Junk into Cool Carry-Alls

  
  Life within me — Authority: 137
  It’s amazing when you realize just how much of the stuff sitting in landfills still could be serving a purpose, if people would only get a little inventive with it. But some artists are way ahead of the curve, producing fun, stylish, durable products from other people’s ‘trash’. One of those creative thinkers ...
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• Copenhagen climate conference’s giant globe: A sign of things to come?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  An enormous white globe dangled in Copenhagen’s Bella Centre, the location of the world’s largest ever leaders’ summit on climate change, could be an unintended yet chilling sign of things to come. An observant attendee made it clear by scribbling on the giant model of the earth that its designers forgot to ...
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• Sarkozy’s tough message on climate – did it get through?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  After one and a half days of mostly uninspired and often irrelevant speeches by world leaders, French President Nicolas Sarkozy walked to the podium at UN climate talks in Copenhagen and produced a seven minute rallying cry - focused, energetic and packed with more punch than the rest put together. Jabbing his ...
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• The strange spectacle of too many heads of government

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  There are around 120 heads of government at the Copenhagen climate talks, so many that it’s hard to keep track of the exact number. Their presence has been trumpeted as a sign of the world’s commitment to tackling climate change. But in return for showing up, they all want a chance to address the conference – ...
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• Auxiliary verbs at 10pm and the scarcest resource – sleep

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The issues are global and urgent, but the bureaucracy can sometimes be mind-bogglingly slow and petty. After a day of stalled talks, the 193 nations at UN-led climate talks finally met for a plenary to discuss one of the main drafts floating around the summit, just two days (and two hours) from the deadline for a ...
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• Love Food Hate Waste Campaign Launched

  
  Recycling, Green, and Environmental News — Authority: 488
  As the holiday season approaches many people are looking for ways to not only be greener, but to do something nice for another person.  The government of the United Kingdom has put pressure on local councils to come up with a variety of schemes aimed at reducing waste in the United Kingdom.  One such scheme came up ...
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• Can you trust the science?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Today we pose the question to our virtual panel of experts, “How far can we trust the science of climate change?” Join the debate and leave your comments below. Bjorn Lomborg , statistician and author of “The Skeptical Environmentalist”: The vast majority of climate scientists tell us that increases ...
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• 1,000 Sign Tax Break Petition for Cloth Diaper Users

  
  Cloth Diaper Blog. The All In One Cloth Diaper Resource. — Authority: 123
  Nichole McLeod and Julie Adamson of Happy Nappy Diaper Service serving customers from North Vancouver to Chilliwack, are committed to cloth diapers ; they think the government should be as well. These two entrepreneurs are lobbying the federal government to give a tax break for families using cloth diapers. The ...
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