Dive! the Film: Living Off America’s Trash
You know you’ve thought about it. Whether you’ve actually done it or would admit to your friends that the food they are dining on was pulled from a dumpster is another matter. Either way, that scavenger-hunt for adults, known as dumpster diving, does have a slight appeal to it. Who knows what you’ll find? Who knows if you’ll get caught! All of that free stuff just waiting fo…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Trash Ball Turns Annoying Parks Clean-Up Work into a Game
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Designer Jung Hwa Jin came up with a slightly more entertaining way to keep trash in its proper place – make it into a game. The trash ball is a soccer ball with a hollow inside, so you can store your garbage in something that doesn’t look like a garbage can. For the most part, it’s a so-what design. But, there’s one use we really like, especially for things like <a href=”http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/09/how-not-to-have-a-…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Paperspring: Stationary So Nice, You’d Never Know it Comes From Trash
Paperspring, the new, online stationary retailer has a new line of brilliantly decorated cards to highlight any occasion or announcement. Cards can be kind of an eco-bummer since you’re cutting down trees for a one-time-use activity, fortunately the gang at Paperspring makes cards out of waste, something you can be excited about. They…Read the full story on TreeHugger
US Poised to Sign the Basel Convention?
Ship leaving Bay Area. Image via: Derell_Licht on Flickr. com
With more countries tightening down on their e-waste regulations and requirements, and with communities in the US requiring special disposal of ewaste, but no follow-through on where it should go, US officials are having to give trash another look, reports the New York Times. With more e-waste being collected in communities, will the US finally sign?…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Brazil Sends Ship Load of Rotting Rubbish Back to Britain
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A few weeks ago we reported that dozens of containers of trash were shipped from Britain to Brazil under the pretense that they were filled with plastics for recycling. They weren’t. They were filled with trash. Brazil got pretty peeved and now we’ve caught wind that they’ve finally shipped the waste back to the UK where it’ll be disposed of properly. …Read the full story on TreeHugger