A Better Beer Bottle – Ecoscraps

A Better Beer Bottle – Ecoscraps. In 1963, the Heineken World Bottle, the“brick that holds beer”, was created after Mr. Heineken visited the Caribbean.  He saw two problems: beaches littered with bottles and a lack of affordable building materials.  The solution: ...

We sh*t you not!

Pooping out plastic not a painful process BY Ashley Braun 26 OCT 2010 3:57 PM Crap — it’s so versatile! It can heat your house, fertilize your garden, and power the grid. And now creative types have squeezed another use out of this universal human product...

Green TP

At Kimberly-Clark, innovation, sustainability meets toilet paper By Larry Dignan | Oct 27, 2010 | 8 Comments SharePrintRecommend1 Kimberly-Clark is innovating on the toilet paper front in an effort to save paper. The USA Today reports that the manufacturer of paper...

San Fran’s zero-waste ambission

Garbage: it’s gross, it stinks, and all anyone wants is to be rid of it. For most cities, that means sending thousands of tons of unwanted flotsam and jetsam to landfills every day. But in San Francisco, garbage is treated like a resource that shouldn’t be...