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Billions and Billions of 3D Glasses: Will Biodegradable Frames Discourage Reuse?
It is estimated that if the 42.1 million pairs of 3D glasses used at theaters to watch Avatar were laid end-to-end, they would stretch more than 3,987 miles. Avatar and Alice in
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Perfect Plant? 7 Great Uses For Industrial Hemp
Not to overly play into the stereotype of the TreeHugger moniker, but today is 4/20 so a quick review of all the great uses for industrial hemp--you
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Milan Furniture Fair 2010: Live Bio-resin Performance by Breaded Escalope...
There are plenty of cocktail parties at the Furniture Fair in Milan, but this one was quite different. All the way out in Zona Bovisa we visited the show Meet My Project and were greeted at a bar that...
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Ford is Increasing Use of Non-Steel Renewable & Recyclable Materials
Image: Ford "In 2009, Ford reduced the amount of automotive-related plastics to landfills by nearly 30 million pounds" Making cars more fuel efficient, and eventually run 100% on clean and renewable...
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Ask Pablo: Does This Compostable Plate Have To Go In The Compost? Can I...
Image Source: Jason Tester Dear Pablo: Our café uses dishes by Ecoproducts. Each plate has "Compostable" and "Tree Free" embossed on the surface. Does this plate need to go into a compost? Or can it...
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Is Noise Really Why SunChips Should Ditch Bioplastic Packaging?
In case you haven't heard already, those much-touted, supposedly 100% biodegradable bioplastic bags that SunChips rolled out a while ago are no more. Apparently the issue wasn't many of the genuine...
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Odwalla Juice Transitioning to 'PlantBottles' - HDPE Plastic From Plant-Based...
Starting in 2011, Odwalla will transition to "PlantBottle" packaging—an HDPE plastic bottle made almost entirely (at least 96 percent) from molasses and sugarcane juice.
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New from Fujitsu: A Compostable Mouse
Fujitsu, maker of the bioplastic computer and zero-watt computer monitor, has announced its latest: a mouse made with bioplastic instead of petroleum-based plastic, is attached to a cable made without...
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Biodegradable Plastic Venture Hits a Stumbling Block: The Recycling Industry
Danny Clark quit his communications job a few years ago to collaborate with microbiologists and polymer chemists to establish a company, ENSO Bottles, that would make recyclable and biodegradable...
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The New Pepsi Challenge: Beating Coke to Produce A 100% Petroleum-Free...
Pepsi unveiled a new bottle yesterday: the first of its kind, the company says, to be made entirely from plant materials, which include switch grass, pine bark, and corn husks.
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Families Sue Chiquita for More Than 4,000 Murders in Colombia
Despite some efforts by Chiquita to clean up its act in recent years, its long history of human rights abuses is coming back to haunt the company. Chiquita is being sued by the families of more than...
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Odwalla "Plastic" PlantBottle Now Made With 100% Plant Materials
One-upping Pepsi's plant-based bottle scheduled to be piloted next year, the Odwalla PlantBottle is now at least 96 percent and up to 100 percent plant-based materials—and is still recyclable in...
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The Bioplastic Revolution: 9 Crazy, Cool Products Made from Plants Not Plastic
The world's addiction to plastic is filling up landfills, clogging the oceans, and even becoming a food source for birds -- but finding another material that's as durable, heat-resistant, light, and...
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The Bioplastic Revolution: 9 Crazy, Cool Products Made from Plants Not...
The world's addiction to plastic is filling up landfills, clogging the oceans, and even becoming a food source for birds -- but finding another material that's as durable, heat-resistant, light, and...
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Susan Freinkel on Our Toxic Plastic Love Affair (Podcast)
It clogs our oceans and tampers with our bodies, yet without it, all modern life would skid to a stop. Susan Freinkel's new book, Plastic: A Toxic Love Story, explores the rise of plastic into...
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iPhone Cases Made from Agricultural Waste and Recycled Plastic
The next time someone says your iPhone case looks like you found it in the trash, you can take it as a compliment. But that's only if you've got a ReCase from Miniwiz, made from 100% recycled...
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01M OneMoment. A New Biodegradable Shoe Concept
A biodegradable show for (almost) all occasions. A cradle to cradle design inspired by ancient Amazon inhabitants. Lightweight, compact and multi-use- it's up to you what you do with it as long as you...
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United Arab Emirates Speeds Up Ban On Disposable Plastics
Original supposed to come into effect in a year, the ban will come into effect in 2012. It covers all disposable plastic products not made from oxo-biodegradable plastics from approved suppliers.
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New Biorefinery Could Turn Starbucks Coffee Grounds and Stale Muffins into...
Researchers in Hong Kong are developing a biorefinery to turn the waste from Starbucks coffeehouses into bioplastics and more.
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Swedish design makes castor oil cool
Dirk Winkel's slick desk lamp uses a bioplastic free of fossil fuel.
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A tiny house mostly made of mushrooms
Ecovative Design creates a wonderful new product that could revolutionize green building. But it is a work in progress.
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Coca-Cola launches "natural" Coca-Cola Life.
After predicting that an Organic Coke would be the pinnacle of greenwashing five years ago, Next Nature Network reports that Coca-Cola has actually done it, launching a "natural" Coke called Coca-Cola...
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Plant-inspired tableware is made from bioplastics
Designer Qiyan Deng creates biodegradable dishes that you'll have a hard time throwing away.
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Nasty or nice? Designer's "Coleoptera" bioplastic is made from dead beetles
Turning a byproduct of the food industry into a new material, this Dutch designer's bioplastic is made from the shells of insects.
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Compostable geometric pavilion is made out of bioplastics (Video)
Innovative research into bioplastics specially designed for the building industry has culminated into this compostable, malleable and versatile material, perfect for complex geometries.
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Drone made of mushrooms not green, but not greenwashing either
iGEM team encourages 'materials activists' to build their own biodegradable drones with downloadable do-it-yourself plans.
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Milkweed could be nature's answer to oil spills
The plant that is the favorite of monarch butterflies could also help clean up oil slicks and spills.
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Shellfish-derived food packaging alternative could reduce plastic waste
As plastic wastes build up in our oceans, we need better alternatives to reduce non-biodegradable packaging wastes
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Modernist Kuskoa Bi is 'world's first 100% bioplastics chair'
Molded out of plant-based bioplastics and sitting on a wooden base, this curvaceous piece combines traditional craftsmanship and new industrial design.
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