Be Eco Friendly

The constant need for more electricity in an eco-friendly way is growing with each day. Although this has spawned many different possibilities over the one new way has be found recently. In an age of insight hybrid cars, wind power and solar energy, scientists from the Hebrew University have come up with an innovative way to generate electricity from potatoes. This news may raise a lot of controversy, but it might still become a potentially reliable venture. Who would have thought it, a potato?

Read the full article here: http://www.eco-analytical.co.uk/2010/08/26/extracting-power-from-potatoes/

Buying Eco friendly products is becoming more and more popular.

But what are the pros and cons of trying to make purchases in an eco friendly way?

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A newly discovered expanse of territory in the North Atlantic ocean has been highlighted as containing high concentrations of plastic waste, similar to those existing in the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch”.

The research, carried out over 22 years at the Sea Education Association in Massachusetts and the University of Hawaii, has been published in a new study detailing the Atlantic plastic debris issue. The study is published in the most recent addition of the journal Science.

According to the article, over 64,000 items of plastic located at 6100 various hot spots have been sampled annually. Surface plankton nets were utilised to collect other biological organisms in conjunction with the plastic waste floating in the ocean.

Read more: http://www.recycle.co.uk/news/2541000.html

New research indicates that male drivers waste up to £2,000 in fuel during a lifetime whilst trying to find their way without asking for directions.

According to the study, men will take excessive measures to avoid stopping to ask for directions causing an average of 276 miles to be lost over the course of a year. The aimless driving typically costs thousands of pounds in fuel waste. In contrast women only drive around 256 miles extra per year getting lost.

The research, led by female insurance consultant Shelias’ Wheels, shows that up to 12 per cent of men refuse completely to ask for directions under any circumstance, while over a quarter will spend up to half an hour searching prior to seeking out help.

Read more: http://www.recycle.co.uk/news/2539000.html

Supermarket giant Sainsbury’s is to roll out “eco-friendly” milk bags and jugs across its entire product range in a multi-million pound move to reduce the carbon footprint of milk consumption.

Sainsbury’s will today stock whole-milk bags following healthy sales of a trial of semi-skimmed milk bags, to be followed by skimmed and 1% fat milk bags next year. It says customers have bought twice as many as originally predicted – currently 120,000 semi-skimmed milk bags per week or one in every 10 two-pint semi-skimmed units sold. Sainsbury’s expects the total number of bags to double following the expansion of the range.

The new product typically contains 75% less plastic than the bottles in which at least two-thirds of the 180m pints of milk consumed by Britons every week is sold. Less energy is used in making them and they take up far less space when disposed of.

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/aug/11/milk-bottle-sainsburys-environment

Electronic cigarette is now making a mark and offering a chance to those who seriously want to make transition from tobacco to a healthier option. This has surely come as a boon for those wives who have become completely tired of their husbands’ smoking habits and even after so many efforts have not been able to convince them to stop smoking, and want them to quit it because it’s affecting their health. Not to worry as Intellicig has come up with a wonderful solution that would not affect their health at all.

Intellicig is an UK based company that manufactures and markets Electronic cigarettes which are the most realistic smoke free cigarettes that do not contain tobacco but give the same experience, sensation and hit as a tobacco cigarette gives you. The best part is that it tastes like real cigarette but does not emit harmful chemicals and smoke. Rather, it’s environment safe and does not leave an odor. Moreover, it does not affect smokers’ health at all and doesn’t leave any unpleasant smell and discoloration on their fingers.