In the November issue of Discover you can read 20 Things You Didn’t Know About Plastic. Here are some interesting facts you probably didn’t know: We humans consume almost 273 billion kilograms (600 billion pounds) globally every year. Our plastic consumption continues to i

This morning is “blue bin” day on my street. Every second week (alternate weeks are for non-recyclable garbage put out in a “gray bin”) here in Toronto we trundle out giant blue boxes on wheels to the curbside. The boxes contain newspaper, junk paper from the m

This week’s headlines looks at the latest controversy around genetically modified foods, an energy roadshow by GE touting its latest gas turbine technology, the evidence for water on Mars and Vesta, the opening of charging stations in California for electric cars, and a cityR

In a previous blog we talked about the challenges and promise of mining waste for energy. North America’s largest landfill and waste removal company, Waste Management Inc., today mines half of its 266 landfill sites in the United States and Canada for methane gas collected from

In our last blog we described how used plastic bottles get recycled as building material in new housing projects in Sub-Saharan Africa and Central and South America. Using products we normally would throw away is one way of dealing with waste and garbage, one of our biggest challenges