What if you didn't have to toss those used and dripping coffee pods? Or try to recycle them? Or avoid buying them altogether? That's the idea behind compostable coffee pods, developed in 2015 for Keurig and similar machines from plant-based materials and certified to break down in industrial composting facilities.  

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Saviez-vous que les mégots de cigarettes représentent approximativement 30% des déchets récupérés sur les sols publics ? En riposte à ce problème, la Société pour l’action, l’éducation et la sensibilisation environnementale de Montréal (SAESEM) avec le soutien de la Ville de Montréal prend pour mandat l’amélioration de la qualité de vie des Montréalais et instaure le projet pilote Mégot Zéro.

As part of its efforts to make downtown Peterborough cleaner and greener in 2018, the Peterborough Downtown Business Improvement Area (DBIA) is giving away free wall-mounted cigarette receptacles to downtown businesses.

Environmentalism and social good are often associated with the “bleeding heart” motif; in a world that values consumption above all, being green can be against the grain. In general, consumers want their goods as quickly and easily as possible, and when they’re done with them, they want to be done, the end-of-life of products and packaging far from mind. Conscious consumers pay premiums in money and time in support of sustainability, taking up a mantle that is often the path of most resistance.

Consumer products giant P&G is tackling marine pollution by creating bottles made from beach plastic and developing new technologies to reduce waste. P&G’s Virginie Helias talks about the importance of collaboration to solve the ocean plastic crisis.

Nothing stands out on beaches or in trash heaps, landfills and those piles of garbage floating in the oceans more than plastics. That empty bottle of soda, water or juice is destined to outlive the person who drank it by hundreds of years.

In the age of the internet, new technologies have provided us access to more information and more ways to connect than ever before. With the rise of social media and internet literacy emerged a new funding option for individuals and groups looking to raise money for the things they care about: crowdfunding.

The average American creates about 4.3 pounds of trash per day. That totals about 447307.5 million pounds of trash in America per year. By digging through piles of trash, Karen Neder is looking to change how much trash goes into the landfills and oceans. Neder works with companies who pay to have their packaging recycled and also uses a recycling company called Terracycle for all her recycling needs. Every week EarthKeepers help collect, sort and ship the trash off to be recycled.

Bottles, cans, newspapers – they are obvious recyclables that most people separate out into a blue bin. Recycling is one small thing we do for mankind on a daily basis, but there’s a good chance you aren’t recycling all you can. If you want to up your recycling game look beyond the standard items and start separating out these lesser-known recyclables.