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Posts Tagged ‘compost’
Green living, Sep 22nd, 2010,
A: Being the owner of a garden is a pleasure, but also means many duties: watering, weeding, replanting, mowing. If your bills are significantly higher during the summer months, it means that you use water and energy uneconomically. Don’t forget about a few green rules and not only will you enjoy a beautiful garden, but also lower bills. Maintaining a lawn is the most water- and power-consuming cultivation in the garden. To water a square metre of grass you need several cubic metres of water per year. It also has to be mowed regularly, and using an electric lawn-mower can…
Tags: compost, eco-friendly, energy, garden, lawn care, mulch, mulching, water
Green living, Science & Technology, Mar 3rd, 2010,
Recycling is a big part of our everyday lives. The recycling trucks here only collect aluminum and glass. However, downtown there is a recycling site where we take our newspapers, cardboard and plastics. There is the exception of plastic bags, which are not accepted at the recycling site (though people will throw them into the plastic bin all the same). As far as the bags go, we horde them until we have a good amount and then take them to a local grocery store, where they are collected for reuse. Plastic seems to be a very tedious product for a…
Tags: biodegradable, compost, Imperial College of London, plastic, study, sugar
Green living, Politics, Recycling, Nov 11th, 2009,
If you’ve been actively following the news here on GreenFudge, you may remember an article posted a couple weeks ago on composting becoming mandatory in San Francisco. Well, it would seem that the people of the East Bay Municipal Utility District have taken it upon themselves to push the composting law to the next level and turn the food waste into renewable energy. Already responsible for providing 650,000 eastern Bay Area homes with water and wastewater treatment; the utility now collects food scraps from over 2300 grocery stores and restaurants for their project. The process it takes to get from…
Tags: compost, converting food scraps into power, food waste, renewable energy, San Francisco
Climate Change, Green living, Science & Technology, Oct 26th, 2009,
“Yes, corn-based packaging is better than petroleum-based packaging for absolutely necessary plastics that aren’t already successfully recycled, and for packaging that cannot be made of paper,” he says. “But it’s not as good as asking, ‘Why are we using so many containers?’ My worry is that PLA legitimizes single-serving, over-packaged products.” –Martin Bourque, executive director of the Berkeley Ecology Center (smithsonianmag.com) Bioplastics are substances and products that mimic petroleum-based plastic, but are made from plant sources or biomass, such as cornstarch or vegetable oil. Some are biodegradable while others are not. But are bioplastics a good alternative to traditional plastics?…
Tags: biodegradable, biodegradable plastic, bioplastic, compost, composting, petroleum, plastic
Green living, Politics, Recycling, Oct 25th, 2009,
A new environmental trend in North American establishments seeks to do away with trash all together. The concept is called ‘zero waste’ and it’s catching on in schools, restaurants, parks and businesses. Though the zero waste concept may sound like an idealistic goal, it signifies just how serious some people and organizations are starting to take environmental concerns, through increased composting, recycling and decreased usage of non recyclable or non biodegradable products. This new standard of ecological awareness and ideology is evidence that American and world habits, standards and concepts are changing in an age where the health and longevity…
Tags: biodegradable, bioplastic, compost, environment, Recycling, zero waste
