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The State of Illinois is set to change cell phone recycling and electronics waste disposal practices within the state as part of the implementation of a recycling law that took effect in 2008.

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That’s right! Sell old cell phones to Pacebutler and we will give away a book for every used cell phone that we buy from you.

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Schools, communities, and organizations doing their cell phone collection drives this December:

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I was watching the movie WALL-E last weekend with my two boys and what caught my attention was the amount of space junk that the spacecraft has to pass through as it begins its journey away from the planet. As it is, that scene is not as far-fetched as one might imagine.

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I’m a firm believer in the economies of scale. I’ve always thought that things done on a larger scale are not only efficient but cost-effective as well. But the whole concept of buying wholesale to save is not always true. Not in the clean energy sector anyway.

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A Nissan Leaf electric vehicle. EcoFriend recently posted an article called “7 Good reasons to drive an electric car.”

Electric car manufacturers like Nissan with their Leaf, General Motors with their Chevy Volt (recycled parts and all), Mercedes with their F Cell hydrogen car has finally delivered their respective EVs to dealership centers across the U.S. After years of build-up, electric vehicles have finally arrived.

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Controlling heat loss, lighting, and waste can make for an energy-efficient and green Halloween celebration at home. (Photo: Sunnking)

Hey folks, Halloween is almost here. My kids can hardly contain themselves with excitement no matter how much I tell them that the current observance of an old tradition has been transformed into an annual feeding frenzy by merchants bringing out the worst shopping impulses among consumers.

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Photographer Tim Simmons in a commission called The Urban Land Project aims to challenge people to reflect and reconnect with their surroundings.

For many city dwellers, the only glimpses of beautiful nature they’ll have on a regular day would be in the images of their desktop nature themes or screen savers. Unless you live near an urban community garden or a rooftop garden, the only green you’ll see sometimes is the flaking green paint on your neighbor’s wall.

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American carmaker General Motors Corporation has shown that recycling can be an excellent profit source for any manufacturing business. (Photo: The Motor Report)

We seem to be hearing a lot about General Motors these days. A few months ago, we wrote about their zero waste initiative and just last month, we reported that GM was also chosen as a finalist for the Waste and Recycling News’ Green Corporate Citizen Award.

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Saferay has built a 78 MW solar plant on land that used to be an open pit mine in Senftenberg, Germany. (Photo: Saferay)

What do you do with an abandoned open pit mine with the surrounding soil contaminated by years worth of toxic mining by-products? In America, we’ll probably declare the location a Superfund site, fill up the pit, clean the site as best we can, and hope for the best. If you’re German, well…why not build a solar park on top of it?

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