Adventurer Andy Pag (34 London) reached Asia last night, after leaving London in a recycled scrap yard bus powered only by chip fat. The veteran overland traveller is attempting to travel around the world using only rubbish to fuel his journey.
On Friday he crossed from the European side of the Istanbul Straits to the Asian [...]
Rubbish-Powered Bus Reaches Asia
October 27th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: · andy pag, bus, chip fat, powered, recycled scrap yard bus, rubbish
Eco-Adventurer Sets Off For Rubbish Expedition Around The World
September 9th, 2009 · No Comments
Andy Pag (34 London), the eco-adventurer who drove a chocolate powered lorry to Timbuktu using waste cocoa butter and organised the Grease to Greece Rally where teams had to scavenge chip-fat to power their vehicles across Europe, is now setting off to drive around the world on an eco-expedition that can best be described as [...]
Tags: · adventure, andy pag, biotruck, bus, butter, cocoa, expedition, rubbish
UK engineers call for green power from household waste
December 5th, 2008 · No Comments
Household rubbish should be used to produce green power rather than being sent for recycling, according to energy experts.
At a briefing today to launch a new report by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers on dealing with waste, the authors said that converting waste could provide up to a fifth of the UK’s electricity needs in [...]
Tags: · Energy, power, rubbish, Waste
Climate change: How quest for zero waste community means sorting the rubbish 34 ways
August 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment
The inhabitants of Kamikatsi intend to do away with incineraors by 2020, to become Japan’s first zero-waste community. Photograph: Robert Gilhooly
It was not that long ago that life in Kamikatsu revolved around the state of the rice crop and the number of tourists arriving to soak in the restorative waters of the local hot spring. [...]
Tags: · AIB, blog, community, ecological, environmental, experiment, inconvenient, japan, kamikatsu, pretreatment, rubbish, shikoku, Waste, zero
Downing St stands by rubbish tax
May 6th, 2008 · No Comments
Trials of a scheme to tax householders who throw away too much rubbish are to forge ahead, Downing Street has said.
It had been reported that Gordon Brown was planning to scrap the policy after Labour’s disastrous showing in the local elections in England and Wales.
The huge losses on Thursday led to heavy criticism of [...]
Tags: · government, labour, rubbish, tax
Emptying organic rubbish can damage health, say doctors
April 11th, 2008 · No Comments
German scientists are warning householders of the health dangers posed by storing organic waste, saying exposure to it, particularly to the moulds that develop as the material decays, can cause skin problems and even breathing difficulties.
Harald Morr, a leading pneumologist, who is also chairman of the German Lung Foundation, said studies showed that airborne mould [...]
Tags: · blog, can, damage, environmental, Health, inconvenient, organic, rubbish
The world’s rubbish dump: a garbage tip that stretches from Hawaii to Japan
March 21st, 2008 · No Comments
A “plastic soup” of waste floating in the Pacific Ocean is growing at an alarming rate and now covers an area twice the size of the continental United States, scientists have said.
The vast expanse of debris – in effect the world’s largest rubbish dump – is held in place by swirling underwater currents. [...]
Tags: · dump, inconvenient, ocean, pacific, plastic, rubbish, soup
Rubbish poses health threat as Greeks strike over pensions
March 18th, 2008 · No Comments
Strikes by millions of workers protesting against pension reforms have thrown Greece into chaos, with rolling blackouts and piles of rotting rubbish posing health risks nationwide.
The proposed reforms will see 133 pension funds merged, while bureaucrats employed in the civil service will be given incentives to retire later.
Tags: · greeks, Health, inconvenient, rubbish, strike, threat
Recycle more stuff
March 17th, 2008 · No Comments
An article in E magazine says don’t throw away anything before you assess the possiblilites of recycling it for other uses. Their article states :
How to Recycle Practically Anything
Old Myths are Shattering and New Options Come Online
by Sally Deneen
Don’t throw away those exercise videos and ubiquitous AOL CDs. Jim Williams wants you to mail old [...]
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