• For your summer beach mix listening pleasure: Reware’s come out with a solar beach tote that’ll let you charge your iPod, phone, or camera speedily, the better to call your friends over to the beach party then get photographic proof of them partying to your fave playlist. [image from Reware]
• Microwaving plastic into oil. Global Resource Corporation sez a finely tuned microwave’s all it takes to turn plasatic into oil and gas. The big Q, I guess, is what powers the microwave –



• Plastic bags may or may not biodegrade in 500 years, as often cited — especially as a landfill “acts as something like a trash tomb—the garbage within receives little air, water, or sunlight. This means that even readily degradable waste objects, including paper and food scraps, are more likely to mummify than decompose.” [image by envirowoman]
• Brattleboro, Vermont becomes the second US Fair Trade Town. The first was Media, Penn., which I wrote about here.

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