Helsinki, the capital of Finland, has taken it's green initiatives to a new level by installing 8 talking bins. 2 million Euros are spent every year on cleaning up the public spaces there, but this scheme aims to encourage locals and tourists to can their littering habits.

Topics of discussion range from politics and religion to comedy and culture. Both the public and the council have hailed them as a great success.

Design Tribe loves anyone who's doing their bit for the environment. I wonder if they do a bilingual version?

Labels: environment, green, tourism

June 22nd to 28th is National Recycle Week, and they've done a thorough job at taking their campaign online with a multitude of nicely branded facebook applications and features on their website allowing users to publicise the event.

This year, the theme for Recycle Week is "let's waste less..." encouraging all of us to try something new in an effort to go greener and cut back on the waste we all produce.

Labels: branding, environment, pledge, recycle, social networking, web 2.0