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In Videos: Unbelievable Can Throwing Skills

In addition to buttery croissants, macarons, and duck confit, France now brings us some bad-ass can throwing skills. Can you recycle your soda and juice containers with such panache and accuracy? Watch the video after the jump....

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13 Comments | Posted by Robyn Lee, November 13, 2008 at 12:00 PM
Tagged: marginally food-related, recycling

No Surprise Here: 'Glass Is Greener,' Says Glass Lobbyist

In response to Tyler "Dr. Vino" Colman's essay on boxed wine, Joseph J. Cattaneo says: Without a doubt, glass bottles are greener than wine boxes.Calculating a carbon footprint based solely on trucking capacity is myopic and fails to consider the carbon costs for extraction and manufacturing.Just envision the various elements that have to go into creating a wine box. It involves many more steps, materials and energy inputs than are required for making a glass bottle.As for recycling, most communities can handle glass, which is 100 percent recyclable. Good luck finding programs that handle wine boxes.The choice is clear: glass is greener. Setting aside the biases of the messenger (Cattaneo is from the Glass Packaging Institute), does this message ring...

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8 Comments | Posted by Adam Kuban, August 22, 2008 at 11:45 AM
Tagged: boxed wine, environment, glass, New York Times, recycling, Serious Green, wine

Airline Food Waste and Excessive Packaging

I had just "powered off" my "electronic device" for landing on a recent flight and was placing my tray table "in the upright position" while glancing around anxiously for a cabin attendant to relieve me of my soda can and little plastic cup. When she came around with a trash bag, I offered the cup, but she asked for the can as well, placing everything in the same bag. I guess they don't recycle, I thought. What's up with that?!? Salon's "Ask the Pilot" column (one of my favorite features on that site) tackles the issue in its latest installment....

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6 Comments | Posted by Adam Kuban, March 2, 2008 at 10:00 AM
Tagged: airlines, environment, food packaging, recycling, Serious Green, travel