Sustainability
It's a plane! It's a washing machine! No, it's a dog food tin!
Not every product has another life. Some are simply destined for landfill - a great reminder that recycling is only part of the...
Bag yourself some kudos - and environmental benefits
Apart from holding groceries, calico bags make a great – and lasting - way to get your brand, logo or name on the streets. And show your...
Grow your own card!
Looking for a different angle on the old pot plant or bunch of flowers? 'Bloomin Cards'is a new range of giftware that puts a different spin on...
Composting crashed computers
Taking them to the tip is not a great solution. Lead, mercury, arsenic and cadmium are just some of the heavy metals that they can leach into...
Cottoning on to alternative fibres
Paper is not just made from wood fibre. Potential alternatives include hemp and cotton. In years gone past, most papers contained recycled...
History of papermaking: of fishnets and paper
Recycling to make paper is not a modern idea. Nearly 2000 years ago the Chinese got the ball rolling. The world’s oldest piece of surviving...
Dairy cows put more greenhouse gases into the environment than trucks.
In fact, the methane cows produce is 21 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than vehicle CO2 emissions. On top of that, dairy greenhouse...
Why you should save your corks.
Every Wednesday morning, up to 22 people sort through corks - for the elephants at Melbourne Zoo. Cork programme co-ordinator Jim Pearse leads...
What a load of rubbish.
A Queensland project is turning landfill, always a bane of consumerism, into enough green energy to power 5,000 homes. It's only one of a number...