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Wish all that plastic packaging would just go away? Green Century hopes so, too.

May 1st, 2008 · No Comments

EPIC Sustainable Living Show, Vancouver 2008 – Ironic that the styrofoam box that protects your restaurant leftovers for two days will be in the landfill until the year 3000. So who’s responsibility is it to deal with? According to Green Century, business should be doing a lot more. “We took it upon ourselves to educate […]

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Tags: EPIC 2008 Sustainable Living Show · Production · Sustainable Businesses · Sustainable Products

New tree-less paper really rocks.

November 20th, 2007 · No Comments

If you wince every time you have to print a job on the skins of dead trees, take a look at TerraSkin™. Instead of using wood pulp, TerraSkin™ is manufactured from stone – 75% mineral powder held together with 25% non-toxic resin – in a manufacturing process that uses no water. The result is a […]

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Tags: Printing · Production

Can e-waste recycling defuse a toxic time-bomb?

November 9th, 2007 · No Comments

A study by Softchoice Corporation in the USA suggested that around half of the business computers in North America would not be compatible with the basic version of the new Vista operating system, while 94% could not currently cope with the premium version. Combine this with new flat-screen technology rendering obsolete millions of lead-loaded CRT […]

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Tags: Printing · Production