http://www.greenkampong.com Sun, 18 Dec 2011 00:35:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/solar-power-enters-the-plastic-age/ http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/solar-power-enters-the-plastic-age/#comments Tue, 25 Jan 2011 01:17:04 +0000 green team http://www.greenkampong.com/?p=4459 Cheaper and lighter compared to its more expensive, cumbersome silicon cousin, plastic photovoltaics (PV) could herald a revolution in the solar power market, according to a UK solar panel expert. “Plastics are much cheaper to process than silicon. In principle the devices we’ve been making might be very, very cheap and cover large areas,” said [...]]]> http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/solar-power-enters-the-plastic-age/feed/ 2 http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/plastic-free-resort-planned/ http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/plastic-free-resort-planned/#comments Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:37:29 +0000 green team http://www.greenkampong.com/?p=3638 We’d like to see one in Singapore. The state government is considering turning the hill resort here into a plastic-free area to protect its fragile environment. Polystyrene boxes are another item on the possible ban list, said Pahang exco member Datuk Shafik Fauzan Sharif. The move, he said, was in line with the recent decision [...]]]> http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/plastic-free-resort-planned/feed/ 0 http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/bangladesh-jute-gets-boost-from-plastic-bag-backlash-south-asia-ekantipur-com/ http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/bangladesh-jute-gets-boost-from-plastic-bag-backlash-south-asia-ekantipur-com/#comments Sun, 20 Jun 2010 09:17:05 +0000 green team http://www.greenkampong.com/?p=3618 Jute, a vegetable fibre that is spun into coarse threads, was once known as the “golden fibre” of the British Empire when the Indian sub-continent was ruled from London. The material’s long decline was hastened in the 1980s with the advent of synthetic fabrics, but the trend is being reversed due to growing opposition to [...]]]> http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/bangladesh-jute-gets-boost-from-plastic-bag-backlash-south-asia-ekantipur-com/feed/ 0 http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/new-soap-old-bottle/ http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/new-soap-old-bottle/#comments Sat, 23 Jan 2010 16:33:55 +0000 green team http://www.greenkampong.com/?p=3387 A company in the U.S. buys brand-name detergents and soaps and sells them to consumers in recycled plastic and glass bottles, calling it an eco-initiative aiming to “give consumers a greener option”. The company doesn’t vouch for the eco-friendliness of the contents of the bottles, but you get the drift.]]> http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/new-soap-old-bottle/feed/ 0