Waste recycling plant launched in Tuas

Waste recycling firm NewEarth Singapore (NES) – which counts mainboard-listed Beng Kuang Marine and Tuas Power among its partners – broke ground yesterday on its new $15 million waste re-utilisation plant at Tuas. The facility will transform industrial waste into environmentally-safe construction and reclamation materials such as bricks and paving blocks. Employing its patented ‘crystallisation [...]

Nike Turns Shredded Magazines Into Sneakers

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How to Go Green: Holidays – How to Go Green

Let’s all be aware of our carbon footprints during this Christmas season….every conscious decision counts! How to Go Green: Holidays No time of the year is more emotional than the holiday season, whether you’re bursting with the joy of baking and caroling or overwhelmed with the stress of shopping and wrapping. But even with all [...]

2010: The Year in Environmental Disasters Slideshow : TreeHugger

It’s been a rough year for Mother Earth…  Do reflect on the pictures. We wish we could say the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was the only horrific environmental disaster this year.From red toxic sludge spewing through Hungary to floods in Pakistan and heatwaves in Russia, 2010 was a year of record-setting [...]

Dissolving Chocolate Trays

U.K. retailer Marks & Spencer is wrapping up its line of Swiss chocolates in bioplastic trays that can dissolve in water. The company is using Plantic trays made with corn starch from non-genetically modified sources and boxes made of cardboard certified by the Forest Stewardship Council. via GreenBiz.com

Roman Ruins Show Sea Level Rise Started During Industrial Revolution

The tanks were usually carved into rock at the edge of the shore and constructed in such a way that some of their features bore precise relationships to sea level at the time. For instance, walls and sluice gates had to be built to let water into the tanks while keeping fish from escaping at [...]

RSPO celebrates first 25,000 certified palm oil family farms

As part of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil’s 8th Roundtable meeting, held this week in Jakarta, Indonesia, RSPO President Jan Kees Vis honored representatives from six smallholder communities and the palm oil mill owners which they supply. “These smallholders prove that RSPO is not and should not be just about large palm oil producers and [...]