As you know, population is straining our natural resources a lot. There are only a few resources left for our future generation, some of which are facing extinction. If you want to give your children the same standard of living that we have enjoyed, you must preserve these natural resources. So it is inevitable for us to go green.

Internet service will help you to lead a Green Life. You will be able to use the power of Internet to decrease even global warming. Follow these tips for a green living. They will help you to save your money and earth.

1. Switch on to Online Shopping
If you are able to buy some of your things online and don’t use vehicles on the road, you can reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It will help you to save your fuel and time.

2. Use of Electronic Invoices
Electronic billing system helps you to save a great amount of paper by avoiding the need for printed invoices. These electronic invoicing will also help you to save your time to reach and pay the bill. The real environmental cost of traditional invoicing is much greater than that of a paper. The printed bills also need ink and energy to be printed and fuel to be transported to the customers. So by using electronic invoices you can save your paper, energy, fuel, time and money.

3. Use of Second Hand Books
The Internet is an absolutely reliable source to search and find and buy what your essential goods. If you are a student, your textbooks take big amount from your budget. A student spends a very huge sum each year on textbooks and notebooks. To lessen the costs of it, you can search for new or used textbooks at online markets. If you want to a search a textbook, all you need is the ISBN number of the book you are searching for. You can also save money and decrease the use of paper by using used books and sell those books which you don’t want to keep any longer at home.

4. Sell or Recycle Your Electronic Equipment
The management of electronic wastes is more important because of the increasing number of electronic equipment, we use. There are some web sites from which you can learn how to sell or recycle your old electronic equipment.

5. Giving Public Awareness
Use all the search engines of social network such as twitter, post blogs, send emails etc. to share the idea of recycling and reuse.

More Green Tips
Internet is an ultimate source for learning Do It Yourself and green tips. Green living Tips and The Daily Green are among the millions of web sites to reach green living tips and they’re all free.

These simple tips will help you to reduce your energy use and budget which means less dependence on the fossil fuels and paper.

Please remember these 3R’s to reduce wastes and live green.

The three R’s namely Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.

Manage wastes means not to produce it. This can be done by careful shopping. This is Reducing.

Reusing makes economic and environmental sense to reuse products.

Recycling is a series of steps to sell a product as a new one. Begin it from home itself.

These 3R’s help us to reduce the amount of waste we throw away and also conserve natural resources and energy.

Article by Rebecca Jones, a blogger by profession. She loves writing on topics related to parenthood and technology. Beside this she is fond of automobiles. These days she is busy in writing an article on sustainable design style.

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Mexico City has announced plans to close one of the world’s largest open-air garbage dumps as part of an initiative to convert more of the city’s waste into reusable materials or energy.

By the end of the year, garbage trucks will no longer be allowed to drop trash at the Bordo Poniente, a massive dump that has received more than 76 million tons of trash since it opened after the devastating 1985 earthquake.

At its peak, the dump received about 12,700 tons of garbage daily. A recycling separation facility and composting plant will remain open at the site. According to a plan announced by city officials, a large concrete company, Cemex SAB, will buy 3,000 tons of trash daily to convert into energy.

Mexico City is searching for other sites to dump the remaining garbage until a new recycling program is instituted in 2012. Meanwhile, Seattle became the latest U.S. city to ban plastic grocery bags, and city officials also passed a 5-cent fee on paper bags in an attempt to reduce its waste stream.

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Use recycled materials to create a musical keepsake for your loved one. It’s an old timey gift with a 21st century sound track!

Looking for a DIY gift for your daughter or niece? This is the perfect project for an experienced tinkerer–all you need is a cigar box, an old MP3 player, and a few hours of time. The great thing about this idea is that you can customize the music box to play more than one song!

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Thanksgiving is almost here, and whether you eat Tofurkey or Turducken, we hope it’s warm, safe, and spent with friends and family!

In celebration of the season, we decided to round up a few apps and other geeky tools that will impress your friends as well as green your feast. Since food waste is a big problem during the holidays, we focused on apps or projects that will help you reduce your excess. Enjoy!

1. LoveFoodHateWaste Portion Planning Tool

The fear of not providing enough to eat often causes hosts to cook too much. Instead, plan out how much food you and your guests will realistically need, and stock up accordingly. This handy “Perfect portions” planner will make it easy to calculate accurate meal sizes for parties as well as everyday meals.

2. DIY Indoor Composter

Instead of throwing out the vegetable peels, eggshells, and other food scraps from making your meal, consider composting them. Individual composting systems can be relatively easy and inexpensive, and provide quality inputs for garden soils. Follow Re-Nest.com’s easy directions for putting together your own space-friendly compost bin.

3. Lunch Skins Reuseable Sandwich Bags

One of the best parts about Thanksgiving is eating delicious leftovers for days. If you’re already dreaming of the turkey sandwiches you’ll be eating next week, LunchSkins are the answer to your plastic baggie blues. These fabric sandwich bags offer an environmental benefit (reduce landfill waste), a practical benefit (they can be used hundreds of times and save you money over the long run), and a healthy choice (food tastes better in a pastry bag).

What are your favorite ways to go waste-free during the holidays? Share them in a comment!

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European engineers have completed a 90-foot bridge over the River Tweed in Wales that is made completely from recycled plastic, the first thermoplastic bridge to be built outside the U.S.

The bridge, which consists of 50 tons of recycled high-density polyethylene materials that would have otherwise been buried in landfills, is able to support vehicles as heavy as 44 tons. Because it is made of plastic, it will never rot or rust, and will not require chemical treatment, painting, or regular maintenance, according to Vertech Composites, the UK-based firm that designed and built the bridge.

And with an expected lifespan of about 50 years, that would yield a savings of $300 per-square-foot during its lifecycle compared with bridges made of standard building materials, the firm says.

In completing the project, Vertech engineers worked with several groups, including the Cardiff University School of Engineering and Rutgers University’s Advanced Polymer Center, that also helped construct a thermoplastic composite bridge at Fort Bragg in North Carolina.

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This is the third and final part of my blog on critical metals and cleantech (read Part 1 and Part 2). This one aims to give an overview of where the opportunities are presenting themselves and those that are leading and innovating in the sector today. For many of these metals, processes to recycle post-industrial waste are fairly well established. It’s in the post-consumer waste streams where the opportunities lie, and where the challenges are harder to overcome.

Oakdene Hollins recently conducted a review of opportunities for the recovery of 14 different critical raw materials. A few results from that review are shown below, along with the estimated size of the market. Some of these opportunities are simply a need for greater implementation of existing technologies e.g. aerospace, batteries and packaging; whereas others represent longer term opportunities.

Recovery opportunities for select critical metals

Indium, in the table above, and Gallium, also identified as a recycling opportunity by Oakdene, already have well established recycling routes for post-industrial waste from the production of LCDs. Around two thirds of the metal is wasted during LCD production but with efficient recycling processes this waste is captured and recycled and actually contributes over one half of global supply.

As I mentioned in Part 2, these metals are also by-products of base metals which means that investing in recyclers is often the best way for investors to gain exposure to these commodities. So if these metals were to experience the kind of price increases that we’ve seen for rare earths, Oakdene says it would positively impact on several recyclers and smelting waste refiners: 5N Plus, a Canadian company; Dowa Mining, Japan’s biggest supplier of Indium; Umicore, a diversified metals recycler based in Belgium; and Asahi Holdings, a Japanese recycler of rare and precious metals.

Oakdene case study: 5N Plus and Indium
TSX-listed 5N Plus has a process to recycle tellurium and indium from solar panels. It collects and removes the tellurium and indium coated glass from solar panels, crushes it and pours acid onto it to dissolve the metals. The glass fragments are then removed and the metal rich solution is refined and processed to extract high purity metals. With the introduction of flat screen TVs, demand for indium has grown and although the concentrations of the metal are much higher in solar panels than they are in flat screen TVs, the 5N process has the potential to be applied to this post-consumer waste stream too when the first generation are thrown out in the next few years.

The urgency to increase recycling of indium is put into sharp focus by Swiss VC firm Mountain Cleantech which says there’s only 11,000 tonnes of indium which can be exploited worldwide – and primary annual production is 550 tonnes.

Rare earths (Dysprosium and Neodymium) remain very difficult to recover economically because they are found in such small quantities in the various waste streams. Operations that recover them from post-consumer waste are currently almost non-existent.

Extracting them from the rest of the product they’re contained in, such as an air conditioner or hard disk drive, is the first step. After that they must undergo a chemical process to refine them. It’s time consuming and costly and many joint ventures and projects have been initiated to try to find more efficient processes. Here’s an overview of who’s currently doing what:

• French chemicals giant Rhodia is particularly active in this area. It’s been researching and developing processes to recycle rare earths from lamps and magnets, and is collaborating with Umicore to recycle them from hybrid car batteries.

• Osram, a lighting manufacturer owned by Siemens, holds a patent for a method to extract rare earth materials from lamps.

• Reconserve, part of Chemconserve in Holland, claims to be the first company to have developed and pilot-tested technology to recover rare earth elements from fluorescent lamps.

• Dowa Holdings appears to be researching methods to extract rare earths from WEEE (waste electrical and electronic equipment).

• The University of Birmingham has developed a “hydrogen decrepitation” technique to reduce a rare earth magnet to powder prior to elemental separation or for blending back into a magnet formulation.

Oakdene case study: Hitachi
Hitachi is piloting a process to extract them from air conditioning motors and from hard disk drives, and they’re also developing a refining process. The Hitachi process is partly manual and partly automated, as it involves cutting open the hard disk drives and removing the rare earth magnets, so that they can be recycled using metallurgical processes. It may be possible to use this technique with larger magnets such as those from electric vehicles and wind turbines, but the preferred technique with these is likely to be ‘re-manufacture’ and reuse wherever this is possible, and materials recycling when this is impractical. The lifetime of the latter products is substantial (10-40 years) and therefore there will be a time lag before such materials become available. Hitachi said it expects recycling to meet 10 percent of its needs by 2013 from almost zero now.

Platinum group metals are used in items such as flat screens and hard drives. In the UK, Veolia is trialing the recovery of platinum group metals from street dust which has come from car exhausts fitted with catalytic converters, which often contain platinum as the catalyst. Veolia will use two technologies — conventional soil washing, which removes plastics and metals and glass from street sweepings, and a technique to remove the metals from the fine dust that is left after they have washed the soil. It hopes to process thousands of tonnes of the dust every year.

Zinc, though not in Oakdene’s table (it has ‘moderately critical’ status currently) remains one of the most in-demand metals with recycling contributing around 30% of supply. I wanted to mention it here because of the interesting technology one company is using to recycle it (from post-industrial, rather than post consumer, waste this time).

ZincOx, an AIM-listed company, has a zinc mining project in Yemen but is shifting its focus to recycling. Recycling is obviously greener, but the company’s novel recycling technology, which allows it to recover zinc along with pig iron from steel waste, means it makes more sense economically too.

The ZincOx process allows it to efficiently extract the metals from electric arc furnace dust (EAFD), a hazardous by-product of the steelmaking process, without the need for government subsidy which many EAFD recyclers rely on. Recovery rate and quality is higher than conventional recycling processes and it produces no waste. It’s currently developing its first plant in Korea, which has an abundance of EAFD, give the size of its steel industry. When phase 1 of this project is complete in Q2 next year, it will process 200,000 tonnes per annum and will be the biggest of its kind in Asia. ZincOx has an off-take agreement with Korea Zinc, which will take all of the group’s production phase 1.

Returning to our post-consumer focus though now and there are several issues that Oakdene encourages investors looking at opportunities in this space to bear in mind.

Key issues for recycling critical metals from post-consumer waste

• Collection & separation: many of the relevant products are not collected for recycling, and if they are, often the products are not separated from other waste streams, like WEEE for example, which can make the later recovery of the critical materials impossible.

• Dispersion: many critical materials are found often in low concentrations, and large volumes of waste may provide only small quantities of material. This hinders the recovery of metals such as tantalum from circuit boards. This is where looking at opportunities in industrial wastes, which may not have been previously considered as sources of critical metals.

• Uncertainty: Implementation of large scale recycling requires significant investment; this is increasingly true for critical materials. Uncertainty about future quantities and qualities of waste streams e.g. the lifetime of products, legislation and the value of materials can discourage the establishment of recycling activities.

• Likelihood of substitution: high prices and in particular absolute shortages can drive substitution (this risk factor was covered in more detail in Part 2).

• Scale: A decision needs to be made as to whether to compete with a large integrated refinery e.g. Umicore or to focus on a niche technology or application. The likes of Umicore benefit from extensive knowledge and expertise and have spread their risk across a range of metals. However certain metals, e.g. rare earths, are not easily recycled by an integrated refinery and niche technologies could prove competitive.

• Stage of value chain: Investments is sorting technology and pre-processing are also attractive, if initially appearing less exciting. For example Airbus/Suez proved the investment merit of this through its innovative aircraft deconstruction pilot project to carefully sort the different metals and alloys with aim of maximising recycling revenue.

And as Mountain Cleantech says, any downturn in prices will of course affect the commercialisation of resource recovery companies because they are semi dependent, at least, on strong prices.

With that, I’ll finish on a quote from Thomas Graedel, a professor of industrial ecology at Yale University, provided to me by Mountain Cleantech: “By failing to recycle metals and simply disposing of these kinds of metal, economies are foregoing important environmental benefits and increasing the possibility of shortages. If we do not have these materials readily available at reasonable prices, a lot of modern technology simply cannot happen.”

Article by Tom Whitehouse. Tom is the Chairman of the London Environmental Investment Forum (LEIF), a conference platform which connects environmental innovation with capital, and the Founder and CEO of LEIF’s Initiating Partner, Carbon International, a fund-raising consultancy for environmental and cleantech industries.

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58 percent of all cans recycled last year in the U.S., But…

Aluminum can recycling rates in the U.S. peaked at over 65 percent in 1994. At the time, the country was a world leader in the category. Times have changed.

In 2008, when the U.S. aluminum can recycling rate was at 54 percent and heading still downward, an aluminum industry trade group adopted the goal of getting to a 75 percent aluminum can recycling rate by 2015. Since then, can recycling rates have only slowly been nudging upward — 58 percent of all cans sold in the U.S. were recycled last year, the most in a decade — and the U.S. aluminum industry is not only in danger of falling well short of its 2015 goal, if current trends continue, the U.S. may end up plateauing at around 60 percent for some time.

Unlike plastic bottles, aluminum cans may be remade into stock for new cans virtually indefinitely and at much lower costs than using virgin stock. Making aluminum from recycled cans consumes 97 percent less energy than making it from bauxite. Substantially lighter than glass bottles, aluminum cans are increasingly attractive to producers who see the giant potential savings in shipping costs.

Despite obvious advantages, aluminum can recycling in the U.S. and parts of Europe remain surprisingly low, especially as compared to countries like Japan, where aluminum can recycling tops 92 percent, and Brazil, where officials say the goal of recycling all aluminum cans is not far out of reach.

Experts point to a number of factors that explain the variance in aluminum recycling rates the including the falling cost of bauxite, energy prices, access to the recycling system, recycling laws, cultural and societal norms, as well as unique economic conditions in the given country. In Brazil, for example, where aluminum cans emerged well before the country’s big economic growth spurt of the 1990s and beyond, as many as 180,000 people now earn their living by collecting cans daily, forming an informal recycling network that has not developed to the same scale in the U.S. and Europe.

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The new targets for collecting electronic waste backed by the European Parliament are set to cause some trouble with reluctant EU member states.

Electronic waste is a number of different types of waste streams. It can include old computers, TV’s etc. The European Parliament and the 27 EU member states are set for difficult negotiations over the recast of the bloc’s electronic waste directive as some European Parliament members insist on ambitious targets for collecting and recycling discarded fridges, phones and other e-waste than the member states can accept. The European Parliament’s Environment Committee voted yesterday on its second reading recommendation on the recast of the Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive, aiming at toughening existing rules on electrical and electronic equipment.

Currently, a flat-rate annual target of 4kg per person is applied even though the EU executive estimates that each European currently generates 17-20 kg of e-waste per year.

The Commission has suggested a collection target of 65% of the average weight of electrical and electronic equipment placed on the market over the two previous years but others say targets should be based on the actual e-waste generated, with 85% to be collected by 2016.

Depending on the waste category, Parliament members also say that 70-85% of e-waste should be recovered and 50-75% recycled. They propose a separate 5% reuse target so that more functional goods get a new lease of life instead of being scrapped.

Many smaller e-waste items, such as light bulbs, mobile phones and electronic toothbrushes are thrown away with other rubbish even though they contain harmful or valuable substances.

To tackle the problem, Parliament members say consumers should be allowed to hand back very small appliances to all electronics retailers — except the smallest — for free, regardless of whether the customer buys a new product or not.

The lawmakers also want to broaden the reach of the EU’s e-waste law by bringing all types of electrical and electronic equipment under the scope of the rules unless explicitly excluded, instead of applying the current restricted list of equipment concerned.

EU member states also believe that the scope should be widened but not until six years after the entry into force of the recast — or around 2018.

The Parliament report adopted yesterday also suggests forbidding any e-waste exports to countries outside the OECD and only allow export of non-functioning products within OECD countries if there is a guarantee that this product will be fixed and able to be re-used.

Some estimate as much as 50 million tons of E-waste are produced each year. The USA discards 30 million computers each year and 100 million phones are disposed of in Europe each year. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that only 15-20% of e-waste is recycled, the rest of these electronics go directly into landfills and incinerators.

According to a report by the UN titled, Recycling – from E-Waste to Resources, the amount of e-waste being produced – including mobile phones and computers – could rise by as much as 500 percent over the next decade in some countries, such as India. The United States is the world leader in producing electronic waste, tossing away about 3 million tons each year. China already produces about 2.3 million tons (2010 estimate) domestically, second only to the United States. And, despite having banned e-waste imports, China remains a major e-waste dumping ground for developed countries.

Article by Andy Soos, appearing courtesy ENN.

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Researchers at the University of Leeds and Durham University have solved a long-standing problem that could revolutionize the way new plastics are developed. The breakthrough will allow experts to create the perfect plastic with specific uses and properties by using a high-tech ‘recipe book’. It will also increase our ability to recycle plastics. The research is published in the journal Science.

A plastic material is any of a wide range of synthetic or semi-synthetic organic solids used in the manufacture of industrial products. Plastics are typically polymers of high molecular mass, and may contain other substances to improve performance and/or reduce production costs. Monomers of plastic are either natural or synthetic organic compounds.

The paper’s authors form part of the Microscale Polymer Processing project, a collaboration between academics and industry experts which has spent 10 years exploring how to better build giant macromolecules. These long tangled molecules are the basic components of plastics and dictate their properties during the melting, flowing and forming processes in plastics production.

Low-density polyethylenes (LDPEs) are used in trays and containers, lightweight car parts, recyclable packaging and electrical goods. Up until now, industry developed a plastic then found a use for it, or tried hundreds of different recipes to see which worked. This method could save the manufacturing industry time, energy and money.

The mathematical models used put together two pieces of computer code. The first predicts how polymers will flow based on the connections between the string-like molecules they are made from. A second piece of code predicts the shapes that these molecules will take when they are created at a chemical level. These models were enhanced by experiments on carefully synthesized perfect polymers created in labs of the Microscale Polymer Processing project.

Dr Daniel Read, from the School of Mathematics, University of Leeds, who led the research, said:

“Plastics are used by everybody, every day, but until now their production has been effectively guesswork. This breakthrough means that new plastics can be created more efficiently and with a specific use in mind, with benefits to industry and the environment.”

Professor McLeish added that as plastics production moves from oil-based materials to sustainable and renewable materials, the trial and error phase in developing new plastics could now be by-passed. He said:

“By changing two or three numbers in the computer code, we can adapt all the predictions for new bio-polymer sources.”

Dr. Ian Robinson of Lucite International, one of the industrial participants in the wider project said: “The insights offered by this approach are comparable to cracking a plastics DNA.”

Article by Andy Soos, appearing courtesy sarahracha.

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Increasingly, there is more concern over the effects of climate change. This results in legislation of a more demanding nature which commercial property developers need to know about. Additionally, the recent surge in energy prices means that everyone wants to reduce costs and subsequently reduce their environmental impact.

There is an increasing belief that if a property developer is more environmentally aware their income growth will be higher and they will be viewed as a lower risk and subsequently produce a higher return. If these environmental concerns are so fundamental and are set to become increasingly more so, what can be done to reduce the environmental impact of commercial property development?

New technologies allow the energy that a building uses to operate environmentally efficiently by using high efficiency windows and insulation not just in walls, but in ceilings and floors too. Another method is to use passive solar building design, which involves orienting windows and walls so that shade is maximized during the summer and conversely gains the most sun during the winter months.

Waste reduction can be used to reduce the waste during construction. A building that is well designed can reduce the amount of waste that it sends to landfill by allowing solutions on site, such as bins for compost. In new buildings, grey water, the waste water which is generated by washing machines and dishwashers, can be used for underground irrigation saving substantially on water waste and ultimately saving on cost.

Building materials are another consideration. There are numerous building materials that are considered to be green, such as renewable plant materials like bamboo, as it grows rapidly. Recycled stone and metal can also be used, in an environmentally age such as this virtually all materials can be recycled, and the use of recycled materials clearly reduces environmental impact. Materials that need to be manufactured should be done so off site, in one location. This ensures minimum waste and maximum recycling.

During construction a dust management plan is vital to reduce the impact on air quality in the local area. Some strategies to assist with this can include cleaning road and work surfaces. Construction also means that there will be a significant amount of traffic to and from the site; if the development company is using its own vehicles they should ensure they reduce exhaust emissions to as greater degree as possible. Clearly commercial property development can generate a large amount of environmental noise; the reduction of noise can be achieved through the use of scheduling non intensive work to the appropriate times of the day and the installation of noise barriers.

Ultimately, every business should ideally have a plan in place to outlay their strategy for reducing their environmental impact, outlining the ways in which they do so and the plans that they have for future strategies in this area. Reducing environmental impact ensures property development is kept green, whilst also having the additional benefit of reducing costs.

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