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We love microbe news here at Swye, and this is no different. A small biotech company in Mexico City called AliBio is using the bacteria bacillus subtilis to clean their water in some unique ways. AliBio is using these bacterias for waste water management, agriculture and aquaculture.
From improving treatment systems and making septic tanks […]
A company where everything it sells is garbage? Sounds like a recipe for failure, but that’s exactly what TerraCycle Inc does and they do it well. The concept is simple: take organic garbage destined for the landfill and turn it into plant food, package it in reclaimed soda bottles and sell it in Home Depot […]
In another litmus test example of our effect on our environment, researcher Cecilia Berg and doctoral candidate Irina Pettersson at the Department of Environmental Toxicology, Uppsala University, studied the effects of hormones on tadpoles. According to the findings, it takes far lower concentrations to make a difference than were previously studied or thought.
Most of the […]
Target is planning to launch nine different natural/organic product brands in their 1,591 stores across the country this March. You can already find Burt’s Bees in their stores but they’re also planning these eight others: Alba, Avalon Organics, Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps, Giovanni Organic Cosmetics, Jason Natural Products, Juice Organics, Kiss My Face and Weleda.
Score […]
In the same vein as the Story of Stuff post we did, this video explains describes the life of cellphones, from creation to disposal. Ever wondered what was in that ear box that you just threw out? Bet you never thought about what happened to it after it hit the trash can. Now that we […]
We all know that cutting down the rainforests is bad, but now we might have even more reason to believe it. According to co-author Luis Fernando Chaves of the University of Michigan, deforestation may help spread the infectious disease American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (ACL) in Costa Rica among marginalized populations.
In the past the theory was that […]
I remember Simple shoes starting out when I was a skateboarding middle schooler. Their shoes were, as their name suggests, simple and comfortable. When I wasn’t wearing skateboard shoes like DC and Osiris, I was wearing Simples.
It seems like the company has grown up now and encountering new growth and renewed interest in their […]
The Washinton Post created a great informational graphic that explains the process each of the bags goes through to become the bags we use. According to the information, paper bags take more than twice the amount of energy to create than plastic and contribute far more water and air pollution than plastic. The trade off […]
The idea of a universal ‘environmentally safe’ label for products that can identify those which are eco-friendly seems like a good idea, right? Not when the label is owned by the very company that creates the products.
That’s exactly what’s happening with SC Johnson’s Greenlist™ label. According to SC Johnson:
The Greenlist™ process provides ratings for more […]
We’ve heard over and over again how fertilizers are bad for the environment for so many reasons and we’re all aware that puberty is starting younger and younger, but there might be a correlation according to a study by Dr. Francesco Massart and his colleagues at the University of Pisa in Italy.
They were researching a […]
