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	by bobolink

Turning Landfills Into Filling Stations

Is it possible to combine two problems and end up with something good, or is that simply the stuff of fairy tales?

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	by LiteGreen

The One Thing You Must Do Today To Save The Planet

According to stats compiled by Oberlin College, if everyone did this one simple thing, it could keep 250 million pounds of recyclables out of the waste stream.

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	by gogreenbeans

Science Fiction, eh? Nah. It’s Plasma baby, and It’s Now.

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Maybe there’s something in the water up there? Maybe it’s the Ice Roads? Or the geese? Whatever the case may be, our Canadian neighbors are leading the way with innovative environmental pollution solutions!

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Follow me	Trish Smith
	by The Green Groove

PUMA Reduces Its Shoe Box Waste by Switching to a "Clever Little Bag"

Designer Yves Behar helps PUMA reduce the company’s waste “footprint” by replacing the box with a bag!

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	by Joe Laur

DIY Shiitake Mushrooms From Waste Wood

Sakurai Midori

We did an overview on growing shiitakes for your home kitchen awhile back. We promised you a DIY piece on starting your own shiitake garden on oak limbs left from logging or firewood operations.

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	by Jeanne Blaisdell

From Table To Trash – Tips To Slow Down That Fast Food!

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Follow me	Trish Smith
	by The Green Groove

A Scary Fact: One Tenth of China’s Recycled Cooking Oil is Tainted with Waste

China’s State Food and Drug Administration begins an avid investigation into the country’s use of highly toxic recycled cooking oil.

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	by derekmarkham

RecycleMatch Turns Trash into Treasure

RecycleMatch helps to transform commercial waste into value by converting one company’s waste stream into useful materials for another.

Just about every manufacturer ends up with waste or scraps that must be dealt with - sometimes by paying another company to haul it away and process or trash it - and a business called RecycleMatch is working to change the way that companies deal with their waste.

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	by The Green Groove

Recycled E-Waste Artists and Their Wacky Sculptures

Electronic waste gets recycled into awesome sculptures thanks to a few creative artists!

Did you know that over 70% of heavy metals in U.S. landfills come from computers? These metals release up to 38 different chemical elements into the waste stream, contaminating the soil and the wildlife around it. Now that’s a lot of unnecessary harm being caused by waste that should have been recycled.

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	by derekmarkham

From Billboards to Bags: AdVinylize Repurposes Advertising Waste

A large part of our visual environment is composed of billboards, with a limited life span and which ultimately end up in the landfill. But now they can be turned into headturning accessories, thanks to this unique company.

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