One good reason to recycle plastic is that there is just so much of it.
Plastics are used to manufacture an incredible number of products we use every day, such as beverage and food containers, trash bags and grocery bags, plastic cups and utensils, children’s toys and diapers, and bottles for everything from mouthwash and shampoo [...]

Between 1960 and 2008 the amount of waste each person creates has almost doubled from 2.7 to 4.5 pounds per day. The most effective way to stop this trend is by preventing waste in the first place.
Waste prevention, also know as “source reduction,” is the practice of designing, manufacturing, purchasing, or using materials (such as [...]

Public Area Litter and Recycling Cans
To help keep San José clean, reduce street and sidewalk litter and support the City’s zero waste goals, over 800 Public Litter Cans (PLCs) have been placed strategically throughout the City in and around high pedestrian areas. The majority are retrofitted with special recycling tops identified with the international recycle logo.
Recycling [...]

Recycling helps you save money and protect the environment. It gives valuable resources another life while reducing the waste that goes into landfills.
Depending on what you have to recycle, there are various ways of disposing of goods and materials for recycling:

in public recycling bins in the inner city
in weekly recycling collections throughout the city
in the [...]

What causes the greatest amount of “green guilt” across the globe?
Not recycling enough was the number one response in 9 out of 15 countries surveyed, followed by wasting water.
A new global “Around the World” poll, conducted by Reader’s Digest and published in all of its 50 April editions worldwide, found that Brazil was the country where [...]

Those eight daily glasses of water you’re supposed to drink for good health? They will cost you $0.00135 — about 49 cents a year — if you take it from a New York City tap.
Or, city officials suggest, you could spend 2,900 times as much, roughly $1,400 yearly, by drinking bottled water. For the extra [...]

Every little bit is a step to help save the earth.
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Change to Fluorescent Bulbs – If every house in the United States changed all of the light bulbs in [...]

Ideas on how you can help the environment in 2010
Around your home

Turn off any lights or appliances in your house you don’t need on. This includes the play station and wii consoles.
Have shorter showers (three to four minutes) or have baths.
Recycle as much as you can. Really think about something before throwing [...]

Sustainability is the new business buzzword but companies benefit big-time from paying more than just lip service.
Evidence is mounting to suggest that organisations that embrace sustainability do as well as, or better than, their competitors. For example, the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index has outperformed the market over the past five years.

CLEAN Up Australia Day founder Ian Kiernan has stepped up calls for national laws to crack down on e-waste producers, as more than 1 million Australians rolled up their sleeves for the annual litter bust.