Green from the roots up, Sustainable from the top down
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Came across a great story on pressreleasefinder today via Twitter about a project in the Netherlands called WarmCO2.
What is WarmCO2?
It is a project which takes residual heat and CO2 from Dutch fertiliser manufacturer Yara and using infrastructure supplied by partner company Visser & Smit Hanab, pipes them to vegetable growers [...]
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I wrote a post back in January wondering if inkjet printer manufacturers would ever ship inkjet printers with inkwells instead of cartridges but wasn’t very optimistic about it ever coming to pass!
It turns out Xerox are doing just that with their solid ink printers! You buy the blocks of ink (no cartridge), drop them in [...]
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A superb GreenPeace photo essay on how electronic waste, given to a UK County Council (Hampshire) bring center, illegally ended up in Nigeria.
Unfortunately due to greed and complete lack of oversight, I suspect this kind of thing happens all too often, leading to massive pollution problems in the recipient countries.
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HP’s Ed Gemmell contacted me the other day to let me know that
HP will celebrate first anniversary of ‘closed loop’ manufacturing for inket cartridges at end of Jan http://tinyurl.com/7pj6bc
I followed the link to see what HP were doing with their inkjet cartridges and, in fairness to them, they seem to be [...]
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