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Spring Back Recycling Builds Up Lives While Breaking Down Mattresses
Getting rid of mattresses is difficult. Most landfills don’t want them as they are bulky and the springs in them damage the crushing equipment. This is where Spring Back, the mattress recycling initiative comes in. Nashville-based Spring Back Recycling is a non-profit organization that works to break down mattresses and build up the lives of formerly incarcerated [...]
Patagonia Asks Its Customers to ‘Buy Less’ and Boosts Customer Base
Asking your customers to buy less of your product is never a good sales strategy but that is exactly what Patagonia is doing. As the California-based company opens its first flagship store in London‘s Covent Gardens it has also teamed up with eBay to create the Common Threads Initiative. This campaign aims to encourage customers [...]
UK Company Turns Used Diapers Into Roofing Material
UK-based company Knowaste claims that they are “world’s first provider of a recycling solution for nappies, adult incontinence and feminine hygiene (AHP) products” and I believe them. Who would have ever thought of turning used sanitary products into roofing material? According to their research, every year, in the UK alone, 80% of municipal waste goes to landfill. AHPs [...]
How Listia’s Online Trading Is Helping to Reduce Landfill Waste
We all have things to give away, sell or get rid of but with no clear-cut method of actually doing it. Of course there is eBay, Craigslist and Freecyle but now there is also Listia. Users on Listia bid for points and then get ‘credits’ when they post an unwanted item on the website. They [...]
Are you a Green Designer?
The following post is part of the course work for “Live Exchange” the foundational course on communication for The MBA Design Strategy Program at California College of the Arts. The rest of the posts are presented here. By Arash Shirinbab Eight years ago I had my first opportunity to engage as a product designer when [...]
Are Reusable “Paper” Towels the Next Eco-Conundrum?
This post is part of a blogging series by marketing students at the Presidio Graduate School’s MBA program. You can follow along here. By Josephine Penaga Inhabitat has recently launched a “Stop the Paper Towels” campaign through a design contest, teaming up with PeopleTowels. The purpose of the campaign is to encourage consumers to cut [...]
Coca-Cola Promoting Recyclable, Reusable Display Racks
Coca Cola has launched a series of 100% recyclable merchandise display racks for use in both grocery and convenience stores. The objective is to nudge Coca-Cola and its distributors toward a closed-loop retail program where such materials are recycled, or even better, reused.
Big Money In Reuse Business; Profits Double in Two Years
Reuse comes before recycle when dealing with the Rs, and for good reason according to the skyrocketing profit and earnings statements from Winmark Corporation. Winmark owns four specialty reuse stores: Play It Again Sports, Plato’s Closet, Once Upon a Child, and Music Go Round. The company has reported nearly double in earnings this year, and [...]
Boxsmart Helps Companies Go Beyond Recycling
Recycling seems like a straightforward thing from the consumer vantage point: A little bit of sorting, put it in the bin, and it’s whisked away, recycled into the many products we all buy that contain recycled material. Only it’s not as beneficial as it may seem, since a substantial percentage of the material gets sent [...]
How to Green Your Office In A Trashy Way
If you’re a green company, should you likewise have a green office? Some would say it depends on how public facing your company is, how curious your customers are, and how much they care. Others would say that no matter how visible the “behind the curtain” aspects of your company are to the rest of [...]
eBay Turns Shipping Boxes Into Ecological and Social Powerhouses
We’ve all done it. Gotten an item we ordered online, torn open the box, making a beeline for the goods inside. But what if the box itself was a treasure? What if it made you want to make a point to reuse it, and you could know its story? This is exactly what’s beginning to [...]
Take a Tour of eBay’s Eco-House
Standing out on the exhibit floor was eBay’s eco-house. Partnering with Levi’s, Reclaimed Space, and Pacific Sales, this chic house showcased the latest in innovative design, energy-efficient appliances, a living outdoor wall, and water-saving features, all without sacrificing style.
Woolfiller Fixes Holey Wool: Poke it Repeatedly With a Needle
Wool. It’s a renewable resource that sees use in a wide range of applications. It magically keeps you warm or cool depending on your needs. But it’s not without its issues. Moths like to eat it. Time tends to wear away at it. It ends up getting holes. For some, a few holes aren’t enough [...]
Give Your Stuff Away Day
This Saturday, May 15, is Give Your Stuff Away Day. The event (formerly called Curb Day) is the brainchild of Mike Morone, who says Give Your Stuff Away Day could benefit millions of people, boost the economy, help shrink landfills, generate a sense of community and reduce household clutter. “And no one has to write [...]
iWasteNot Systems: A Dating Service for Trash
Looking for 50,000 pounds of inedible egg product, a gently used photocopier, a few 55-gallon drums of alkaline degreaser, or a dozen wooden cable spools? As the old adage says, to some that’s trash . . .but to others, it’s treasure. Just ask James Ruttan, CEO of iWasteNot Systems, Inc., in Ontario, Canada. He, together [...]
Recycle Match: The eBay of Recycling?
Waste. Every company creates it, in some form or another. For some materials, the path to recycling is clear – paper, plastics, and industry specific waste that has a known reuse within your sector or a related one. But what about the less obvious materials, the ones for which you have no feasible reuse, and [...]
Xerox : How Green is Your Print Job?
“Waste-free products from waste-free facilities” The zero waste vision has been gaining steam lately. One of the most important strategies for this involves designing products and factories that don’t have large amounts of waste created in the manufacturing, use, and disposal of the product. Since 1991, Xerox Corporation (NYSE: XRX) has made significant progress in [...]
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