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Apple's packaging - 'Aqua' degradable by VR-Zone.com

Apple may have revoked its green certification some time ago after asking EPEAT (Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool) to remove all of its products from the green registry, however, they have a new form of packing technology that is biodegradable before your eyes - with some warm water.

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  • May 24, 2013, 10:01am

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Whey Too Much: Greek Yogurt’s Dark Side

The Greek yogurt boom has produced an unfortunate byproduct: tons and tons of whey.

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    • yogurt
  • May 23, 2013, 7:10pm

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Stop Coca-Cola trashing Australia

We’ve made a new Coke ad — with a twist! It exposes how this drinks giant is willing to let plastic pollution trash our oceans and kill our marine life: htt…

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    • recycling
    • rubbish
    • birds
  • May 07, 2013, 3:48pm

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Pre-Peeled, Re-Wrapped Bananas Are the Most Wasteful Sign of the Apocalypse Yet

In what has to be the worst case of wasteful packaging in the history of modern conveniece, a grocery store in Austria is actually selling pre-peeled bananas that have then been re-packaged in cellophane-covered foam trays.

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  • April 30, 2013, 7:08am

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Debris Removal From Hurricane Sandy Is More Costly Than Average

Officials said they were happy with the Army Corps of Engineers’ performance in removing the rubble from Hurricane Sandy, but private contractors might have been less expensive.

The expensive of disaster relief

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    • trash
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    • recycling
    • Hurricane Sandy
  • April 28, 2013, 7:59am

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Dumpster diving cafe

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    • food waste
    • dumpster diving
  • April 05, 2013, 8:08pm

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Plastic bag banning success

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    • plastic bags
    • plastic waste
    • garbage
  • April 03, 2013, 8:40pm

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Super cool new trash track program

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    • garbage
    • plastic waste
  • April 03, 2013, 8:40pm

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Plastic is Rubbish!!

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    • plastic
  • April 03, 2013, 5:49pm

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Visual Culture of Food Waste Data: Theaters of Proof

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    • garbage
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    • food waste
  • April 03, 2013, 5:48pm

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Garbage. I like to think about it. I like to read about it. So I'm writing my dissertation... about it.

I'm not simply interested in what you throwaway (or recycle or compost) everyday. Or how you make really cool things out of used products destined for the dump. I want to explore more than just physical objects. By studying the networks in which waste is produced it is possible to explore how political and economic structures produce environmental degradation (ie in the words of TWL "sustainable degradation" ) . And that is what I will do. Here. In garbourgeoisie.

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