Tag Archives: waste

Squeaky clean country: Sweden runs out of garbage

What if the United States’ garbage just disappeared? Sweden ran out of trash, and needs more — to heat its country.

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Bulk is Green: Ditch the packaging

I love cereal. Love it. For all the local eating I’ve embarked on this summer, I cannot let go of my bought-at-the-grocery, one-bowl-a-day habit. But the waste in packaging gets to me sometimes, as I’ve written about before. So here’s a … Continue reading

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‘No Impact Experiment’ begins today

We’ve written a bit before about the No Impact Project on York’s Seeing Green (here and here). In summary, Colin Beavan decided in 2007 to take inventory of his impact on the environment, with an end goal of a zero … Continue reading

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Wasteful packaging: Do consumers care?

We encounter waste in our lives every day — from the little things, like kids (or adults!) who don’t want to drink the leftover milk in their cereal bowl once all the Frosted Flakes are gone — to the bigger … Continue reading

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