Today’s pick of the green news:
The paper bottle. In response to the millions of plastic water bottles thrown away each day, a company called Brandimage has created a completely renewable bottle, made from paper. Of course, there’s no guarantee anyone would actually recycle these either, but it would be certainly easier on landfill.
Fly the friendly (and clean) skies. Bio-fuel powered aircraft could be in commercial use within three years, claim Boeing. The company plan on using non-food crops to power their planes, with Air New Zealand set to try out a 747 powered by jatropha next week.
Wine’s bouquet has overtones of climate change.The amount of fossil-fuel-derived carbon dioxide in the air near a vineyard affects a wine’s bouquet, writes Discovery News. Scientists say analysing wine from different regions will help them determine where carbon-management schemes are working well.
Logging on Brown Mountain. This video shows purportedly shows logging of old growth forests on Victoria’s Brown Mountain. Naughty.
Pay to save. Britons want to be paid for producing less waste and recycling more, reports the BBC. A survey found 79 per cent of women and 70 per cent of men think they should be rewarded financially for creating less waste. Here’s a reward for you: having a planet to live on. Gosh.
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But hang on. Item 1 – use paper. Item 4 – don’t use paper.
No, in item 4, you can use paper (and profit!) as long as you recycle it.
Obviously disposable bottles of any kind aren’t ideal (she says swigging from a plastic Diet Coke bottle), but as long as people are using them, it seems a bit friendlier to the environment.