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Starbucks to Recycle Coffee Grounds and Baked Goods into Laundry Detergent...
Over the past year, Starbucks has launched a range of initiatives to reduce their footprint, and now in order to tackle their share of the 1.3 billion tons of food that is put into landfills worldwide...
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Pecas’ Fase#3 Stool Is Made From Textile Waste Reclaimed from Chilean Factories
Bernardita Marambio B. Pecas has created a fantastic new seating option, utilizing salvaged textiles from factories in Santiago, Chile. Dubbed the Fase#3 Stool, the simple and clean form represents...
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The Kinkajou Glass Cutter Transforms Used Bottles into Funky Drinking Glasses
For all the times you’ve thrown out beer bottles by the dozens, Patrick Lehoux has designed Kinkajou, a bottle cutter that can easily turn all those empty bottles into a set of really cool drinking...
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Send The Pen Guy Your Dead Pens To Help With New Reclaimed Art Projects
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Carmen Shiu Uses Porcelain Pieces to Patch Up Broken Objects at London Design...
The ‘How Come’ show at London Design Week showcased an array of great sustainable designs this year, but the one that really caught our eye was a display by designer Carmen Shiu called ‘repair the...
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The Bicyclean Uses Pedal Power to Safely Recycle E-Waste
The Unites States generates more electronic waste than any other nation on earth. According to the EPA, more than 4.6 million tons entered domestic landfills in 2000, and 50-80% of our total e-waste...
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Coca-Cola Launches Plastic Bottle Recycling Program To Make Seats For...
Photo via Shutterstock In two years Brazil will host the 2014 FIFA World Cup, and as one of its main sponsors Coca-Cola has pledged to reduce the tournament’s environmental footprint by launching a...
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UN Offers Prize to Help Bring Power to 3,000 Bosnian Homes Using Renewable...
Photo by Shutterstock To help deliver power to the more than 3,000 families living far from Bosnia’s power grid, the United Nations is offering a $20,000 prize to whoever invents a relatively cheap...
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12-Year-Old Boy Saves 4,000 Pairs of Shoes from the Landfill
Each year over 300 million pairs of shoes are thrown into United States landfills, and 12-year-old “Eco” Erek Hansen has made it his personal mission to make sure more of those shoes are recycled. The...
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EcoBot III is a Human Waste-Powered Robot that Cleans Wastewater!
EcoBot III is a lightweight self-sustaining robot designed to clean wastewater! Powered by Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs), the robot runs off human waste, using it to produce electricity necessary for...
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H&M To Launch Clothing Recycling Initiative in Stores Worldwide
Fast-fashion retailer H&M is ramping up its sustainability efforts with a major new recycling initiative. This week, H&M announced that it will launch the world’s first global clothes...
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1.9 Million Worms Chomp Down Airport Waste in North Carolina
The Charlotte Douglas International Airport in North Carolina has deployed 1.9 million worms to turn a boatload of organic waste into fertilizer. Every day the airport housekeeping department headed...
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‘Twas the Night Before (a Green) Christmas…
‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the green house “We’re not ready for Christmas yet!” the whole family groused They’d all been too busy working and living Seems like only a day had...
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How To Recycle This Year’s Holiday Cards Into Next Year’s Gift Tags
It happens every year: After the holidays are over, you’re left with a huge stack of holiday cards and packaging. But instead of throwing them in the recycling bin, you can reuse both your holiday...
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Vodafone’s Nearly New Program Introduces Pay-As-You-Go Pre-Loved Smartphones
For pay-as-you-go cell phone users, using high-end smartphones can be a pricey investment. Vodafone, a UK cell phone service, has a nifty solution to the cost problem that also happens to be great for...
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UK Drivers Trade Their Old Cars for New Trees Through the ‘Scrap Car Plant...
Cars accounted for a whopping 21% of the total greenhouse gas emissions in the UK in 2009, but a creative new program from Giveacar and Trees for Cities aims to repair some of the damage caused by...
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The Goedzak is a Special Rubbish Bag for Curbside Donations
One of the great joys of living in the urban jungle is the daily discovery of treasures left out on the sidewalk. Sadly, the elements have a way of destroying the best finds before hunters have a...
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PHOTOS: HWKN Debuts Spiky Blue Wendy Pavilion Abroad in Abu Dhabi
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VIDEO: Inhabitat Interviews California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom!
Inhabitat readers might remember that we interviewed California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom back when he was the mayor of San Francisco in a live webcast that was open to any of our readers who...
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The Solecan Combination Waste Bin Makes Recycling a Breeze
Can a simple redesign of the trash can make recycling so easy that everyone will do it? That is what husband and wife team Jeff and Liz Helfrich, asked when they invented the Solecan, a...
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