Consider a cardboard laptop stand from Mission Stands: they are lightweight, easy to assemble and lift your laptop to a more ergonomic and comfortable eye level.

At Hewlett Packard’s recycling facility 20 miles southeast of Nashville in Smyrna, Tennessee, millions of empty printer cartridges find their way to a new life.

Starbucks and Stonyfield are among the growing number of companies in the United States that are fronting more of the costs of their recycling efforts.

The disposable society is evident in countries like the UAE and Qatar and is only getting worse. Trash is ruining the desert and beaches. Everyone can do better.

The global threat of energy shortages, rising costs and increasing legislation to curb emissions of greenhouse gases have all driven the development of deeper sustainability standards for the packaging industry. OCTAL is one company treating these threats seriously.

Polycarbonates, The Other Plastic Identification Code, or 7, are used for a bevy of purposes. And sometimes it is actually “pure.”

In Guatemala, Hug It Forward has funded the completion of 12 schools with four more on the drawing board. All of them are built from plastic bottles at a cost of less than US$10,000.

As You Sow, a corporate accountability and corporate social responsibility advocacy group, recently released its third beverage container recycling scorecard report. The results are not encouraging.