Seattle Requires Restaurants To Recycle And Compost Everything

Published by William Schwartz on 2010-07-29 14:28:33
Seattle has become the first city to ban restaurants from serving single-use containers that cannot be recycled or composted.The City has made a contract with a local company, Ceder Grove Composting, to handle all the compostable packaging and food waste that is disposed of by restaurants. Every food service establishment ...
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UN Declares Water A Human Right

Published by William Schwartz on 2010-07-28 20:52:06
On July 28th, the UN General Assembly voted in favor of recognizing clean drinking water and sanitation as a human right. 122 of 192 member nations voted in favor of the non-binding resolution, no nation voted against it. However, 44 member nations did abstained from voting. The US was in that 44.Over 900 million people ...
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New Cleaning Products Use Tap Water To Reduce Carbon Footprint

Published by William Schwartz on 2010-07-21 14:46:09
A Canadian company, Planet People has developed a line of non-toxic cleaning products that, to reduce packaging and carbon footprint from shipping, do not come with water. The IQClean line of cleaning products comes with a bottle and a cartridge of plant based cleaning fluid. Users of the product simply fill the IQClean ...
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New Bottled Water Alternative To Hit Stores

Published by William Schwartz on 2010-07-20 15:47:59
3M announced a new product today that is meant to be an alternative to bottled water, called the 'Filtrete Water Station'. The device basically takes your basic Brita water filter and combines it with BPA free reusable water bottles, skipping the step of pouring water from a filter jug to a reusable bottle. When you pour ...
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Virginia Gov. Takes Stand For Bottled Water, Reverses Ban

Published by William Schwartz on 2010-07-16 13:14:31
Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell took a stand for bottled water companies this week by reversing the state's ban on spending government funds on single serve water containers. Many city and state governments around the country have taken bottled water out of their budgets in the last year to end wasteful spending on a product ...
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Soccer Field Reinvented As Massive Water Filter

Published by William Schwartz on 2010-07-13 15:51:27
With the World Cup came lots of talk and thoughts, maybe too much, about the World's favorite sport, soccer. Now that the tournament is over, we can think about more important things, like soccer fields that double as water catchment systems.Designers from the charitable design organization Atopia Research, have come up ...
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San Francisco Start-up Brings The Refill Concept To Cosmetics

Published by William Schwartz on 2010-07-06 17:53:37
A small start-up in San Francisco's Noe Valley called Green11  is taking the refill concept that has been successful with water and coffee, to cosmetics and cleaners. The company's retail shop simply sells you refills of shampoo, soaps and household cleaners for your own refillable containers. Green11 also has a strict ...
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