Taking in the Trash Hey, some things are just not recyclable, right? WRONG! more here: http://www.empactshowcase.com/company/1341-terracycle/2013
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Tagged with: drink pouch brigade, recycling, TerraCycle, Tom Szacky, Trenton NJ, upcycling
Posted in waste management
Posted in waste management
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How Does Your Garden Grow? Milwaukee gets people across the U.S., Canada, and the Caribbean to spread its sewage around. more here: http://onmilwaukee.com/market/articles/makingmilorganite.html?page=1
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Where there’s a Goodwill, there’s a Way An oldie, but a goodie. Since 1902, Goodwill has been turning used clothing and household items into new jobs and training. Less landfill, more dignity. Good work. more here: http://www.goodwill.org/
Tagged with: employment, job training, recycling
Posted in adult/continuing education, Canada, production, service, USA, waste management
Posted in adult/continuing education, Canada, production, service, USA, waste management
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The House that Harvey Built When retired Texas welder Harvey Lacey became a volunteer with Haiti Communitere, he found a solution to the post-earthquake housing crisis all around him. more here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/auren-kaplan/ubuntu-blox_b_1427315.html and here: http://www.haiti.communitere.org/projects/ubuntu-blocks.html
Tagged with: earthquake, housing materials, Port au Prince, recycling, trash
Posted in Haiti, permanent, training
Posted in Haiti, permanent, training
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Beautiful, Beautiful Soup Paris- based Disco Soupe is a group and a movement and an approach to recycling some of the gross tonnage of food wasted each day into meals for the homeless. It’s also a reason to dance. more…
Tagged with: disco, food, food chain, food waste, groups, homeless, meals, produce, recycling
Posted in nutrition, Paris, waste management
Posted in nutrition, Paris, waste management
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Liter of Light How millions of plastic bottles become millions of watts of light. more here: http://currystonedesignprize.com/winners/2012/liter_of_light
Tagged with: design, plastic bottles, prisms, recycling, refraction, solar light
Posted in entrepreneurship
Posted in entrepreneurship
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Protecting Titís Is in the Bag Proyecto Tití is an organization dedicated to protecting the cotton-top tamarin, native to parts of Colombia. In an effort to reduce the number of plastic bags which litter tití habitats, Proyecto Tití helped to…
Tagged with: artisans, bags, bolsas, cooperatives, design, garbage, litter, mochilas, plastic bags, recycling, trash
Posted in entrepreneurship, waste management
Posted in entrepreneurship, waste management
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