Ron Gonen of Recycle Bank is named 2009 United Nations Environment Program Champion of the earth. The founder and CEO of Recycle Bank Gonen is one of 7 environmental leaders in the world honored today in Paris.

Christmas has come and gone, and you've got ornament-laden pine, spruce, or whatever in your living room, dropping needles on the carpet. What do you do? You recycle it, that's what.

Recently the promotional conference for China's automotive parts remanufacturing industry was held in Dongfeng Motor Corp's Xiangfan base, said xinhuanet.com today. This event marked the official launch of the nation's green program of auto-parts recycling and remanufacturing.

The Beijing 2008 Olympics are underway in Beijing, and the city is on full display. But many of the visitors aren't aware of the people who have been forced out of the city because the were considered undesirable by the government.

IBM Global Asset Recovery Services, the IT equipment renewal and recycling arm of IBM, was recognized by leading IT analyst firm IDC as one of the first recipients of its Green Recycling and Asset Disposal for the Enterprise (G.R.A.D.E.) certification.

The California Department of Conservation today unveiled a new report showing that Californians are recycling a record number of beverage containers. More than 14.7 billion beverage containers were recycled by Californians in 2007, an 11% increase over 2006 levels, and 50% more than were recycled just five years ago.

HP today announced it recycled nearly 250 million pounds of hardware and print cartridges globally in its fiscal year 2007 – an increase of approximately 50 percent over the previous year and the equivalent of more than double the weight of the Titanic.

San Diego based LG Mobile Phones is proud to return for a second year as an official mobile phone partner for the 2008 Buick Invitational at Torrey Pines, but also to promote their mobile phone recycling effort.

IBM to Partner With Toyota Tsusho on Waste Disposal and Resource Recycling System

Recycling your Christmas is made easy with Earth 911 (www.earth911.org). It calls not to trash that Christmas tree. Instead, Eart 911 says treecycle it.

Research carried out in the Department of Social Psychology and Methodology of Behaviour Sciences of the University of Granada has shown that the level of academic training is not related to the ecological awareness of people, despite the great proliferation of programs designed to educate and increase social awareness of the environment.