The Brits really do have an unique sense of humor. Check out this campaign aimed at making the Londoners aware that they should recycle. “Please? No!”

Not sure about you, but if I were to see it on TV with no explanation I wouldn’t know it’s for a green cause. More like a Muppets show that is due next week. What was the impact on you guys?

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Dell is trying to reduce the packaging waste by 10% in the next four years. Using green packages for their products – intensive recycling and sustainability programs, the company will help preserve “more than 150,000 trees” and should see a drop in costs by some $8.1 million.

The effort is to integrate an “air-filled cushion technology and renewable materials including molded pulp cushions and recycled High-Density Polyethylene (HDPE) thermal-formed cushions”. Most materials they’ll recycle, are milk jugs and laundry detergent bottles – 2 million of these.

Meanwhile, Dell is trying to prove they’ve embraced the “green road” and announced that their Greenprint Advisor, a free web-based resource center is now available for U.S. businesses and organizations to evaluate their green initiatives. It’s expected to go globally soon, too.

Any other manufacturers to at least look green? – via TGDaily

Plastic is one of the biggest demons that plagues the environment today and while we would love to do away with it completely, it just isn’t that simple.

Swiss company Recycline is offering a very interesting and cute way to recycle and reuse plastic with its new range of products that transform PET bottles into newspaper racks, vases, napkin rings and a whole lot more. While you can purchase them for a price that ranges from 6 to 120 Swiss Francs, you could very easily also make imitations of these with some simple work in your own home. Of course, you could always buy the more complex ones! – via TreeHugger

41pounds.org stops junk mail and saves the planet.

1. Who they are -41pounds.org is a nonprofit organization wanting to eliminate a big personal nuisance and environmental hazard — junk mail.
2. Why they’re here -41pounds.org was started because of being overwhelmed with unwanted and wasteful junk mail.
3. What they do -Sign individual up, contact 20 to 30 direct mail companies to stop the majority of bulk mail that comes every day.
4. What it means -Raised thousands of dollars for important programs to reduce the impact of junk mail on the planet and our daily lives.

41pounds.org is saving time, saving trees and saving the planet. But can 41pounds.org stop the credit card companies, too? How about 41pounds.org for a Christmas present?

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Singapore’s National Environment Agency (NEA) is currently studying the feasibility of puttin an eco-park on the Semakau landfill. Let’s see, create an artificial land mass, then make it look eco-friendly. Hmm…

The Semakau Landfill is on an island 8 kilometers (5 mi) south of Singapore and is used for ash disposal from Singapore’s incinerators. The proposed eco-park will become a test bed for renewable and clean energy technologies.

The Semakau Landfill has an expected lifespan of more than 30 years from now due to recycling efforts. Singapore’s national recycling rate is up to 54% from 40% just 7 years ago. If only half the world would recycle, how different things would be.

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“Recycle, Reduce and Reuse”- If the planet is what is at your heart then that is the mantra for you. Different people have various ways of recycling stuff and while some ensure that the recycled products are useful, the others make sure that they are works of art that spread the message.

The giant, shiny metal skull made from recycled kitchen utensils falls in to the latter and with Halloween around the corner, it might be a really enterprising venture. Just stick a couple of glowing red LEDs in the eyes and play a horrific laugh behind and you could make yourself a cheap Hollywood flick as well!

Crafter by Indian artist Subodh Gupta, the giant skull is simply too awesome to take a pass on, and it really is as crafted to perfection. While it may not really serve any practical purpose, it stops plenty of old metal from ending up in landfills and scrap.

Moreover, what better way to promote eco-friendly attitude among kids than by scaring the hell out of them with this and “forcing” them to recycle. Another example of recycling gone right! – via EcoFriend

B Happy bags which are made in the USA using upholstery weight fabrics or recycled water bottles are truly very sturdy. We don’t know exactly what she does with them, but Christina Clark said that she had easily carried 30 pounds of apples in the bag with utmost ease (keep some apple juice/pie/etc for us, too, please )

These bags have colorful prints, are easily washable and can fold up to a size that can conveniently fit in to your handbag or even your pocket, and the handles are made of heavy duty webbing which gives it a better grip and a more resistance power. Up to a ton of groceries, they say. Since they do not have a plastic lining inside, they can be folded easily without being all crumpled up.

You can get the happy bags in lime green zebra print, as holiday and seasonal theme bags as well as a reusable Trick and Treat bag. More other modes are available and you should definitely at least check up on them. Price is $24. Looking great from my end, how about you?

There’s a guy in California – Cory N. Barden – who might need to get some lessons in stealing from the folks in China who swiped some elephants. A 38-year old man in Apple Valley, CA stole a $250,000 helicopter blade and tried to sell part of it as scrap for $250.

“But, officer, I was doing the recycle thing. We Californians love to recycle.”

The Heavy Lift Helicopter Inc had reported that someone broke into their yard and stole a 400-pound rotor blade.

“That’s not a banana, that’s my helicopter blade.”

Good grief! Where does one hide a helicopter blade? Do they fold up like switch blades?

A-1 Recycling alerted investigators that there was some liberal recyclist trying to save the world one helicopter blade at a time…or maybe just needed $250. After investigators matched serial numbers on the blade – the A-1 dudes had kept them from being smashed into little ball bearings, they tracked down our thief. It was easy enough to find him, he had some huge stretch marks in his britches.

So what if the plastic bags decomposed in just 3 months. An editor at the Asahi Shimbun opined that plastic shopping bags are NOT the biggest problem. Some 30 billion shopping bags that weigh several hundreds of thousands of tons are NOT the problem.

A survey by this editor revealed -

1. 83% of those who get plastic bags reuse (recycle?) them as liners for their kitchen garbage cans.

2. 80% also used the plastic bags to line their waste baskets.

3. 43% find yet other ways to reuse the little buggers.

5. A mere 0.8% just threw them away.

In the absence of plastic bags for this purpose, most said they would buy garbage bags for the same purpose or reuse newspaper.

Not a few people reused the plastic bags when they went shopping. Many are opting to buy a lot of the cheap plastic bags instead of the more costly heavy plastic bags. In other words…collecting money for plastic bags at the supermarket is just another way to, well, make money. The bags are already being reused, recycled. What’s the big deal?

Japan has ideas out the gazoo when it comes to recycling.  At an upmarket residential area in Tokyo’s Shibuya Ward one man is making colorful accent rugs from old clothes, 1960’s-style lamp shades from corrugated plastic board, and  candleholders from old bicycle chains. It’s called the ecoprinka brand with the aim of  “Co-existence with the Earth means enjoying doing ecologically conscious things.”

Another store offers furniture and household goods with a 1960s design with products that have been used for multiple generations of customers. You can buy a motorcycle seat with pipe legs for Y50,000 ($475).

A Finnish ec0-oriented design by Secco attracts young Japanese consumers to bags and cell phone straps made from discarded tire tubes and keyboards. Retailers throughout Japan carry the products. But…the truth of the matter is people often buy discarded or recycled products = junk, only to realize they don’t like the design and they become waste again.

So, are these products really being reused, recycled, or are some people just making money off of other’s guilt at not being ‘green’ enough? It seems to me to be the latter.