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Doesn’t it seem pointless to open your Amazon box just to have to open another box to get at your product? Arriving in time for the holidays is Amazon’s announcement of a new way it will be packaging its products that makes it easier for consumers, requires less shipping space, and saves on materials. The [...]
Read more →A new McDonald’s built on the south side of Chicago has rebuilt itself to be an efficient and green building, despite being crammed into the industrial side of the city. For starters, they’ve installed energy and water saving gadgets, high efficiency appliances, tables and chairs made out of recycled materials, a green garden roof, and coolest of [...]
Read more →It seems like every few months Waste Management is making news by teaming up with other brands and helping people go as green as possible, and this time it’s with Sony. The recycling giant and electronics manufacturer are teaming up to promote electronics recycling in Atlanta on November 22nd where they’ll be hosting an event to collect electronics for free. [...]
Read more →Until yesterday, Tim Horton’s recycling program only involved glass bottles and plastic products, which left the millions of paper cups they distribute each day to end up in a landfill. But now, the nationwide coffee chain has a plan for their Toronto stores – they will collect the paper cups and recycle them for roofing paper [...]
Read more →A lot of water goes into making each bottle of Coca-Cola that we drink – roughly 2.7 liters for 1 liter of soda – but Coke is always cutting down on that number. In fact, that figure is 20% lower than it was in 2002, and still continuing to drop. This information comes from Coke’s Sustainability Review [...]
Read more →In 1978, Anheuser-Bush started a recycling program to make sure that their beer cans wouldn’t end up in landfills across America. The number of aluminum beer cans they’ve recycled since then: 460 billion! Anheuser-Bush, the parent company of the likes of Budweiser and Michelob to name a few, is proud to promote recycling to their customers, [...]
Read more →The newest line of shoes from Nike is coming with the tag “Nike Considered”, and is meant to introduce a wide selection of footwear that was created with a minimal environmental impact. Although there have been Nike Considered products for years, this is the first time that eco-friendly shoes will be available in basketball, running, soccer, women’s [...]
Read more →Here’s a neat promotion to keep in mind this holiday shopping season – if you’re getting bogged down with old electronics and don’t know what to do with them, or the proper way to recycle them, send them back to RadioShack and get a gift-card in return. RadioShack’s new Trade-In site helps you estimate the value of your old [...]
Read more →There’s a bit of a snag in the new energy economy. It’s recently been heralded as the next big thing for North America because it will lead to massive job creation and a sustainable future, but a lot of these advancements depend heavily on the demand for solar panels, wind turbines, and other key factors in a green [...]
Read more →With all of the recent talk about creating “Green Jobs”, you’ve probably found yourself wondering what the highest paid environmental jobs really are, and Forbes has the answers for you: 1. Chief Sustainability Officer: Works within an organization to ensure they stay within government regulations and keep environmental goals in check 2. Environmental Engineer: Work [...]
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