Recycling, packaging and waste
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High praise for digital mags
High praise for Green Ideas magazine from digital newstand Zinio.com today! In their guest post on the website Appolicious.com, they made the case for buying magazines digitally (they claim they save 104,000 trees every month!), ...
World's first bottle made from ocean plastic!
Reader submittedMethod have just released the world's first bottle made from ocean plastic to help raise awareness of this ever growing issue. "As a small soap company, we know we can’t clean up the world’s oceans. but ...
Yellow pages, green ideas
The wasteful distribution of the Yellow Pages every year is a familiar grizzle in New Zealand. It looks like it's an issue overseas as well – however, this Canadian artist has chosen to treat the unwanted phone ...
Greenpeace vs Coca-Cola – New campaign promotes 'cash for containers' scheme
Reader submittedGreenpeace has launched a television advertisement in response to Coca-Cola Amatil's opposition to a container deposit recycling scheme. http://youtu.be/Q7Uxaw6YoRw Check out the Greenpeace website for more information on the 'cash for containers scheme'.
Beer in the bathroom
I really like the look of this bathroom – it uses beer bottle caps instead of tiles.
Some hard facts about plastic waste
Reader submittedOver the last 60 years plastic has become central to our lives and now approximately 500 billion plastic bags are used annually worldwide. They take 1000 years to biodegrade and litter the planet, causing mayhem to plants and animals. Over ...
Throwing away food – what a waste!
I thought this infographic illustrates the problem of food waste brilliantly. Yes we have a problem, but what's the solution? ...
Wow! 19-year-old unveils plan to pull plastic from the ocean
You have to check out the website of Boyan Slat, the Dutch teen with the amazing plan for cleaning plastic from the ocean: http://www.boyanslat.com/ It's projected that his Ocean Cleanup Array could remove 7,2500,000 tons of plastic ...
From Yellow to Green
Wellington newspaper the Dominion Post has been host to an interesting debate with Green Party MP Gareth Hughes writing an opinion piece about the waste involved in printing and distributing phone books. Calling them “the ...
Compostable nappies!
Reader submittedHello. Love your magazine! Not sure where to provide this feedback, but maybe you will get to read it here. I thought you were a bit unfair on the compostable nappies in your article. We use ...