Articles Tagged "Recycle"

To do: buy new iPhone. Upgrade laptop. Purchase latest tablet. Consumers constantly want the latest gadgets and gizmos. But what happens when it is out with the old and in with the new? Far too often, old electronics are carted off to rot in landfills, leaking toxic chemicals into the...

H&M may be the epitome of fast fashion but sustainability is an important part of the company’s culture. To further its efforts, beginning in February 2013, H&M will offer customers shopping discounts in exchange for used garments. The program will be available in all 48 markets...

Sunday is Earth Day and you might be wondering what you can do to “go green.”  Look no further!  The World Watch Institute, an environmental research and advocacy organization has compiled a list of 10 easy tips to live a more sustainable way of life.  Check them out below as well as...

You go to your closet. It is brimming with clothes. Clothes that may be beautiful or trendy, but that you hardly ever wear. Pauline Truchot is all too familiar with that experience. In fact, it was the impetus that led her to create StyleRecovery.com, a community website that gives...

Proving anything can be recycled into something beautiful, luxury car company Lexus asked four innovative fashion designers to re-create the idea of automotive design into fashion accessories using 2,000 disassembled pieces of a Lexus CT hybrid (which is 90 percent recyclable).

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California Coastal Cleanup Day is this Saturday, Sept. 17! Coming together in the state's largest volunteer event, about 82,500 volunteers last year removed more than 1.2 million pounds of trash and recyclables from our beaches, lakes and waterways.

Each year, vast amounts of trash...

Reduce. Recycle. Reuse. That goes for your cellphone too.

Not only can you prevent toxic metals from entering groundwater and protect expensive, rare earth metals, you can now get cash when you recycle your cellphone, reported GOOD. You’ll be surprised by the amount of mula even a...

LUXies, we found this cool new grassroots movement of people coming together to gift and give some neat stuff.  This new online destination definitely embodies the phrase ‘one man’s trash is the other’s treasure’ and actually helps to incorporate ‘reuse, recycle and reduce’ in...

Six Flags Inc. has decided to update the popular theme parks by implementing sustainable green practices!!  Now that’s what we call a LUX improvement!

“Six Flags is taking aggressive steps to help protect and preserve the environment for future generations,” said Mark Shapiro, Six...

What if there was a machine that instead of ‘shredding’ our in office paper waste, it made toilet paper??  Well kids, hold on to your seats because there is!  Now make sure to email this post to accounting—just think of what this kind of technology is going to do for hard good cost...