One of the most innovative companies in the green space is TerraCycle. Initially producing natural fertilizer from worm poop, and bottling it in old plastic soda bottles that they pay schools to collect, the company has now branched out into all kinds of innovative products made from trash.

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Here’s a handy green tip for the kitchen that everybody can do, and better still it saves money! Rather than buying plastic storage containers for keeping left overs, or partially used raw ingredients, keep plastic containers that food comes in, wash them out and reuse them. Everything from the little 6oz shredded cheese container shown in the photo to containers for yoghurt, fresh simmer sauces and other fresh goodies can be reused.

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Here’s an amazing idea, and it came from watching sea otters suffering in the 1989 Valdez oil spill! Phil McCory, a hair stylist in Huntsville, Alabama, noticed while watching reports on the environmental impact of the oil spill that the otters’ dense fur sucked up the oil and held on to it. That got him wondering whether human hair would do the same thing, so he set up an experiment using hair cuttings from his salon, a pair of his wife’s pantyhose and his son’s paddling pool to see whether he could remove oil from water using human hair. Miraculously, it worked, and the OttiMat™ was born.

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