Dubai – Your waste paper can be recycled into cardboard in just one hour. However so few people are handing in their paper to be recycled that the UAE’s first paper mill has to either buy from traders or watch it being shipped for recycling abroad. Other recycling facilities around the city are set up [...]
The Green Eco Store in Dubai stocks a ton of innovative and quirky gadgets online that offer more-than-novelty value items that are easy to incorporate into daily life. First up is Seedpaper. Despite the fact we are supposed to be reducing the amount of stuff we accumulate I love the idea of seedpaper so much [...]
Illegal trade in wildlife products like ivory and rhino horn must be treated as a serious crime in order to end the devastating poaching of protected species, the head of UN wildlife trade regulator CITES said last week. “This is serious crime, and you need serious resources and serious penalties” to address it, said CITES [...]
South African authorities have been rounding up thousands of escaped crocodiles since Friday after floods gave them an escape route from a crocodile farm. Authorities attempted to reassure the public everything was under control. “A large number” of 15,000 reptiles at the Rakwena Crocodile Farm in the far north of the country had escaped last Sunday [...]
Brazil will undertake the massive task of cataloging the trees of the Amazon, in an effort to better monitor and protect the world’s largest tropical forest, the environment ministry announced Friday. The planned tree census, set to take four years, “will allow us to have a broad panorama of the quality and the conditions in [...]
Recycling entrepreneur Tom Szaky is stubbing out the world’s cigarette problem — one butt at a time. The 30-year-old who dropped out of Princeton University to start his innovative company TerraCycle in Trenton, New Jersey, says there’s no such thing as trash, even when you’re talking about the contents of ashtrays. In a program started [...]
