Costco has decided to partner with Gazelle, a “reCommerce” company, in their effort to keep used electronic devices out of landfills. Through Costco’s Trade-In Recycling Program, Costco shoppers can receive Costco cash cards for each used used electronic devices they choose to trade in. Items that can be traded in include: cell phones, digital cameras, […]
Costco’s Trade-In Recycling Program
January 9th, 2009Reducing Our Usage of Plastic Bags
January 9th, 2009“Paper or Plastic?” is soon going to be a phrase of the past and the acronym B.Y.O.B. is soon going to have another meaning: Bring Your Own Bag. Many states have begun encouraging their citizens to use re-usable bags and to support the proposal of a “bag law.” A “bag law” would require citizens to […]
Coca-Cola Uses Recycled Plastic Bottles To Create Uniforms
January 8th, 2009Coca-Cola will have about 550 employees working at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, BC and all of them will be wearing uniforms made from recycled plastic bottles and a blend of cotton. But this is not the only thing Coca-Cola is doing during the 2010 Winter Olympics to curb their impact on the environment. […]
Read Coca-Cola Uses Recycled Plastic Bottles To Create Uniforms
The Battle for Green Domination Begins: Apple vs. Dell
January 7th, 2009Apple and Dell have begun to use the extremely persuasive power of environmental marketing techniques to their advantage. In an effort to lure customers, Apple has claimed that they produce “the world’s greenest family of notebooks.” Dell, a long time supporter of environmentally friendly initiatives and one of Apple’s largest competitors, found this to be […]
Now THAT’S a good use for those wine corks….
January 7th, 2009The majority of the 13 billion wine corks sold into the market each year wind up as waste, filling our landfills with yet another thing that we can reuse. Amorim, of Portugal is the world’s largest producer of natural cork. They are working to help keep it from being wasted by sponsoring the American arm […]