Eco Blog

In Orlando, a city-wide program has been chalked out to deliver rolling carts to houses. The carts will replace the recycling bins that are currently being used. Instruction charts attached to the rolling carts will guide residents on the materials that can be placed in the carts for recycling. Also, the charts will have the […]

The University of Iowa (UI) Recycling team has come up with a unique recycling project to reduce wastes at football games. If the supporters of the playing teams recycle their cans and other plastic wastes, they can help their team win the Gameday Challenge. This event is held among various colleges to try and reduce […]

GSP (Global Soap Project) is a NGO initiated in 2009 by Derreck Kayongo along with his wife Sarah. Derreck hit upon the idea for the creative venture when he noticed leftover scraps of soap in an US hotel. Today, several such leftover soaps sourced from different hotels are processed to create a new recycled soap […]

A recycling program has been initiated at Cheshire. As a part of this program, an automated truck will collect recycling containers from households on a bi-weekly basis. Solid waste will, however, continue to be collected every week. The Recycling Program The recycling containers are to be distributed to all households in the town. Pamphlets, bearing […]

The Founder and President of www.gogreenwebdirectory.com, Paula Keif has launched a new range of handmade soy candles. These candles, popularly known as the Green Koala collection, are available at a store named Artisans. This store is located in Hingham and has a lot of Keif’s other handmade products such as soaps and body lotions as […]

The Columbus Elementary School in Yamhill County, Oregon has launched an effort for reducing waste production by incorporating a green lifestyle into its daily routine. The school has decided to ship its waste materials to a recycling unit and is making tremendous efforts to involve the young students in this process as well. Columbus Elementary School’s […]

Officials of the Leon County Waste Disposal Department have launched an initiative to educate residents on the right way of disposing campaign signs, with the elections right around the corner. Waste management officials in the county have requested the residents to dispose campaign signs and banners at the county’s solid waste facility or the Marpan […]

On November 1st the ban on single-use plastic bags went into effect in Port Townsend. According to the ban all the stores and their customers will have to change the shopping habits and witch to using wholesale reusable bags. Retail stores will have to stop using flimsy plastics and instead supply the customers with paper […]

The student group of New Technology High School, Napa, California, has decided to back one of the City Council candidates of Napa. According to a media release, the students will be handing out promotional reusable totes, in support of Alex Pader. Alex Pader in Favor of Using Reusable Totes and Banning Plastic Shopping Bags The […]

The Post-Consumer Plastics Recyclers Association recently launched new resources online, which were created in order to help the grocery chains in the United States of America recycle more used plastic containers. Instead of emptying the containers in landfills, the program aims at recycling over 350 million pounds of these containers, which are generated on a […]