A new great idea that is coming from the UK: a milk bottle that is made mainly of recycled paper and can be recycled again. In one word: Greenbottle.
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China has a packaging problem. I don't mean a branding problem. I mean the materials that companies cover their stuff with.

The Mooncake

Can a pizza box save the planet? Probably not. But sometimes it's the simplest ideas that can have the most impact. When you take the resources saved on one meal and multiply by the 4+ billion eaten in the US alone annually, that's some powerful stuff!
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Photo by Peter Morris, from The Age

We might like to think that the shift to digital photography is less wasteful that the film medium from days of yore. And whilst there may be an element of truth in this assumption, the photoigraphic industry is still prone to issues of packaging waste. So it was pleasing the hear that Olympus Imaging America is setting out to reduce their impact in this regard.

It's at least a bit ironic that Wal-Mart drove HP to come up with some seemingly significant packaging reductions for its Pavilion dv6929. After all, Wal-Mart IS still the place where you can leave the store with a 1-to-1 plastic bag-to-purchase ratio.

Consumer packaging reduction of 97 percent

TreeHugger spares no expense or our livers in our search to find the greenest packaging for wine. After reading Ruben Anderson's article in Tyee, where he said "Do you really want to try to look your children in the eye and explain that they have to eat jellyfish gumbo because you couldn't resist that lovely imported shiraz?" I started looking for a greener, local alternative.

    Finally, a greenstitute for styrofoam that is biologically based, works as well, and is cheaper. Huzzah!
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