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British inventors have designed a washing machine that takes eco-friendliness to a new level: it uses just a single cup of water to wash a load of clothes. Instead of water the Xeros machine uses thousands of special plastic chips (about 44 pounds' worth) in each wash, and when that single cup of water is heated, these chips absorb the dirt-including tricky stuff like coffee and lipstick. The chips are removed when the wash ends, and can be reused up to 100 times. Though it's still in prototyping, the inventors are intending to commercialize their machine, and it may even hit the shops next year for a price similar to conventional machines.

We also believe that people make better choices when they have information to help them, especially if the information is easy to understand and easy to find. Determining the greenness of a product can be a complex task; to form an accurate picture, the following kinds of questions must be answered: * The materials within the product: Are they harmful to the environment? Where were they sourced, and at what environmental cost? Are they renewable resources? Are the materials recycled? How much transportation is involved in getting the materials to the manufacturer? * The manufacturing process: How much energy was consumed in creating the product? What kind and how much waste is created in making the product? Is this waste reused in any way? If not, how is it disposed? * Product usage: Does using the product release any pollutants into the environment? How much energy is consumed while using the product? What is the average life expectancy of the product? * Product disposal: Can the product be recycled? Does the manufacturer have a recycling program? Is the product bio-degradable? Considering all these factors is enough to make anyone's head spin! That's why Greener One created a way for people to compare products on an environmental basis and to share product information with one another. A variety of factors for each product are converted into a simple "green index" score that can be easily understood by anyone. How Green Index is Calculated Greener One was created by a group of technology veterans committed to the idea that people who are empowered with information can change the world. We put the tools in your hands to make the right decisions, to share your knowledge and to open conversations with companies about the products that they produce. Everything you consume has an impact; Greener One gives you the knowledge to determine the size of your environmental footprint.

Here at Inhabitat we love to see innovative reuses for organic waste, and so we're perpetually fascinated by the potential of poo to be used as a renewable source of energy. Last week Dutch agriculture minister Gerda Verburg announced a groundbreaking development for the field as she unveiled the world's largest biomass power plant to run exclusively on poultry manure. The plant will convert a third of the nation's chicken waste into energy while running at a capacity of 36.5 megawatts - enough to power 90,000 homes!

After completing a building, or tearing one down, there are often collections of small left-over materials, as well as entire pieces that do not qualify for a refund at the lumber yard for some reason.

Industry wastewater treatment is a complex process since there are different kinds of pollutants against different industries, such as petrochemical industry, Coal Chemical Industry,Dye chemical, pesticides industry, Pharmaceuticals, electroplate industry, Electronic industry, hydrometallurgy industry.

Wastewater treatment is the process of converting wastewater into an effluent that can be discharged back into the environment with a legal standard, which is certified generally less impact on the water cycle; the effluent is directly reused for other purposes. At the same time, the Valuable components from wastewater could be enriched as resource recovering.

Hydrometallurgy is a technique for extractive metallugry involving the three general area: leaching;solution concentration and purification; metal or metal compound recovery. Ion exchange technologies are usually used in the second area. Cation, anion, chelating ion exchange resins and adsorbent resins are all used to exchange cation, anion with the solution so as to enrich metals for recovery and reuse, or removal and disposal. This is a technology for metals resource recycling or impurities removal of high-purity metals.