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Advanced CD recycling facility in Melbourne to reprocess one million ton annually

Posted by DeshRaj on 20/11/2009

Alex Fraser Group unveils a $45 million construction and demolition (CD) materials recycling facility in Victoria, Melbourne. With an annual capacity of approximately one million ton, the state-of-the-art facility, dubbed as the Western Metropolitan.

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Colin Lin reuses discarded newspapers to create eco-friendly shoes and tote bags

Posted by DeshRaj on 20/11/2009

Designer Colin Lin, 50, chanced upon a brilliant idea of creating eco-friendly footwear and tote bags using recycled newspaper. The Taiwanese designer recycles Chinese language newspapers and weaves them into a lattice pattern. In order to endow...

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Electrawinds creates worlds first car that runs on animal fats

Posted by AditiJ on 20/11/2009

For those of you who think that renewable energy is nothing more than wind power and solar energy here is an interesting piece of information. A group of people have come together to produce green energy from animal fats. Employees of the...

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Leonid Meteor Shower, The 2009 Tech Awards - Part 1

Posted by Hosam Haggag on 19/11/2009

When I heard that the Leonid meteor shower this year was predicted to be one of the most active in years past, I was determined to head out and catch the sight of the “shooting stars” myself. And boy was it an amazing sight to see! Sitting under a moon-less night with no ...

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Global Health: World Toilet Day Raises a Stink

Posted by Juhie Bhatia on 19/11/2009

While it may sound like a bad joke, today's World Toilet Day focuses on a not-so-funny issue impacting almost half the world's population -- a lack of toilets and sanitation.

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