Message in a bottle? No -- recycle it instead
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Incurable romantic Stuart Conway has spent the last 10 years throwing messages in a bottle into the sea off Britain -- but now his local town council says it&#39;s time to recycle.
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Dried apples preserved with a cancer-causing chemical.
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By Bob Hood, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Mar. 4--If the inside of your tackle box looks like a can of worms, it's probably time to empty it and start over.
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What, they're not made of organic hemp? Apple is a grubby polluter and isn't doing enough to change that, according to environmental pressure group Greenpeace. A new campaign comes on the back of a Greenpeace investigation into the contents and destination of hardware which ranked Apple below less hippyish brands like Dell and HP for environmental responsibility.â¦
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What, they're not made of organic hemp? Apple is a grubby polluter and isn't doing enough to change that, according to environmental pressure group Greenpeace.â¦
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By Jacob Luecke, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo.  Mar. 4--Plastic companies use bisphenol-A to make a lot of things -- food containers, water bottles and even baby bottles. But there's only one thing Fredrick vom Saal would like the industry to do with it: Take it off the market.
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A chemical industry group has lashed out against Greenpeace, condemning the environmental lobby group for making unfair&#160;criticism of Apple&#39;s iPhone&#39;s green credentials.Greenpeace last week released an analysis of the iPhone, in which it claims the product contains a range of potentially dangerous chemicals.The Bromine Science and Environmental Forum BSEF), the international organization of the bromine chemical industry, points out that none of the substances Greenpeace is criticizing Apple for deploying in the device are banned under existing environmental law.&quot;All the substances reported by Greenpeace are approved for use, and provide critical performance and safety functions in a wide range of electronic products,&quot; the organization countered.The bromine chemical industry trade body points out that the brominated flame retardants used in the iPhone are commonly used in electronics products from all manufacturers, as they provide a high level of fire safety -- essential in an age in which computer batteries randomly catch fire.Greenpeace&#39;s biggest sin, according to the chemical industry organization, is to have sensationalized its findings.&quot;The Greenpeace report does not say which brominated flame retardants are present in the iPhone because it does not know,&quot; the organization says. &quot;Therefore, the report speculates about what substances might be present, and raises an alarm without any basis for doing so.&quot;The rebuttal continues to explain that -- even according to Greenpeace&#39;s own study -- the iPhone complies with all existing EU regulatory requirements.It adds: &quot;The brominated flame retardant most likely used in the iPhone is actually a reactive -- it reacts with other substances to form a plastic and, once reacted, it is also no longer available to the environment. The Greenpeace report is incorrect in its assertions about the potential for releases to the environment.&quot;The rebuttal also slams Greenpeace because its iPhone criticism ignored the requirement under recent EU law for manufacturers to take responsibility for the disposal of printed circuit boards, and railroads the environmental group for failing to offer a constructive alternative to brominated flame retardants for electronic devices.Naturally, the chemical company trade body is protecting its own vested interests, but claims that its remit is &quot;to ensure that the best available scientific information is used when addressing&quot; issues concerning bromine.BSEF members include Albemarle, ICL Industrial Products, Chemtura, and Tosoh.Macworld.co.uk is an InfoWorld affiliate.
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Also: Molecular 'extension cord' for chemical computing. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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Tycho:  You can download homebrewed ROMs for the Fruit Fucker that enhance the efficiency of the feed reamer or allow you to juice via SMS.  I'd read on FFHacks.com tweaking boards that the machine had an array of sensors that had no apparent juicing purpose.  Of course, "hackzors" up to their spectacles in system-level code are probably the last people to read the manual.
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Stamping camembert with a "carbon footprint" rating. Charging Parisians for the empty Bordeaux bottles they discard. Banning high speeds through the pasture-lined highways of the Loire Valley.
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The 100 percent recyclable celebration has arrived. Just donât eat the potato-based biodegradable forks.
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The software maker launches MSN Green, a site packed with eco-info. It will be interesting to see the appetite is among advertisers and readers.
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There's fuel in waste water. Who knew?
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Environmentally friendly flowers are a hard sell. After all, most people don't eat them.
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By Joseph Szydlowski  If you took a look inside your trash can, what would you see?   Junk mail? Coffee grounds.
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Science & environment: It now seems that just about anything can be sold as being 'green'. Ravi Somaiya goes in search of some of the more weird and wonderful examples.
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By Rex Springston, Richmond Times-Dispatch  Mar. 10--A proposal to recycle used water in Virginia got an initial go-ahead yesterday.   The State Water Control Board proposed rules for the program, which is aimed primarily at protecting Virginia's rivers and aquifers.