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Waste Recycling
Champion of recyclers
Issue Date: Oct 15, 2009
http//www.freecycle.org
On May 1, 2003, Deron Beal, an American engineer, sent an e-mail to 40 friends and a handful of non-profits in Tucson, Arizona. The e-mail led to the formation of the Freecycle Network, which provided recycling services to businesses in Tucson.
Unorganized players give e-bike a bad name
Issue Date: Aug 31, 2009
On the market potential of e-bikes
At a time of fast depleting fossil fuel deposits, e-bike is the future of transport. It is particularly important for India as the country’s fuel import bill is increasing every year.
Interviewee:
Naveen Munjal
News Snippets
Issue Date: Aug 15, 2009
>> The Sydney Theatre Company is set to become environmentally sustainable under a federal government programme to "green" public
buildings. The theatre's historic Finger Wharf building is being outfitted with solar panels and will also be fitted with a rainwater harvesting tank.
>> Rockskilde, one of Europe's largest rock music extravaganzas created an environmentally friendly campsite for this year's event, which
began on July 9 in the Danish capital Copenhagen. "Campers were encouraged to recycle their garbage, and to hop on wired exercise bikes to
...and not for garbage
Issue Date: Jul 15, 2009
Because the primary resource, apart from land, is people. Ragpickers are human resource
it is not easy to determine the amount of garbage India produces. No large corporations see business
opportunities in it, political parties do not see votes in it, the media does not see stories in it. Stands to reason the Planning Commission has not
proposed a grand plan to make India the world's top garbage handler. All this could end one fine day, when somebody with the right connections
Loo and behold
Issue Date: May 31, 2009
Villages near Tiruchirapalli show the city how to manage sewage--and benefit from it
Swish till you drop
Issue Date: Apr 30, 2009
http//www.swishing.org
Swish and don't shop is the mantra the website swears by. The dictionary meaning of swish is to rustle, as silk. The idea here is to rustle clothes from friends. Started by Futerra, a communications agency in London, swishing involves people getting together to swap clothes and accessories and save the planet in the process.
How they do it
The EU offers a solution to disposal and recycling of CFLs. Under its Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive of 2005, it is the responsibility of the manufacturer to collect and recycle the spent bulbs. Collection of these bulbs can take place at the point of sale or at e-waste collection points. The customer can return the CFL from where he or she bought it. Manufacturers have formed joint ventures to recycle theThe current attention-grab
Issue Date: Oct 31, 2008
As the passion for recycling remains on a high, Micha Kuechenhoff turns towards garbage for jewellery. The Berlin-born, California based designer takes old, unwanted things like locks, keys, brooches and broken pieces of glass, and creates bright, stylish jewellery out of them. High end boutiques then sell them for upto US $300.
Britain's 'green' car rally
Issue Date: Sep 30, 2008
In a unique effort to recycle wasted energy, 8 teams of British eco-enthusiasts participated in a car rally from London to Athens in vehicles fueled by waste vegetable oil.This 11-day, 2,500 mile (1 mile equals 1.609344km) feat was achieved with diesel converted from an estimated 350 litres of wasted cooking oils borrowed from eating joints, that otherwise head for landfills or the sea.
A different muse
Issue Date: Sep 30, 2008
In an era when "recycle" is the buzzword, artistes the world over are making innovative efforts to revolutionize the way people look at waste. First it was Santiago Sierra, the Spanish artist's recycled human waste, that was put on display at Lisson Gallery, London (see 'Artistic solution' Down to Earth, January 15, 2008). Exhibits of rectangular solid blocks, recycled and sanitized, they were meant to give an insight into the lives of toilet cleaners.
