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- adjective Not
eco-friendly ;harmful to thenatural environment .
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Examples
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My method: Fill an eco-unfriendly styrofoam cup half full of snack food, fill the remainder with lint, pitch, paper (if available) and tip it on it's side and cover the cup with tender and torch the contents.
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And, of course, even the most eco-friendly car becomes eco-unfriendly if left to rust in a junkyard when it reaches the end of its useful life.
A fast food morning with the Tesla Roadster Sport - Boing Boing 2009
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If the electricity used to charge the car came from coal-powered plants, that would definitely be eco-unfriendly -- less so than a car with a gas engine, of course, but still eco-unfriendly.
A fast food morning with the Tesla Roadster Sport - Boing Boing 2009
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My method: Fill an eco-unfriendly styrofoam cup half full of snack food, fill the remainder with lint, pitch, paper (if available) and tip it on it's side and cover the cup with tender and torch the contents.
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Appropos of your recent gripe with Toyota and its outsized (and eco-unfriendly) flyer for its new Prius, here's one from Comcast, which arrived in today's post.
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Energy by itself is neither eco-friendly nor eco-unfriendly.
A fast food morning with the Tesla Roadster Sport - Boing Boing 2009
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So the bottom line is that just about any car, even one powered by bio-diesel, is eco-unfriendly to some degree.
A fast food morning with the Tesla Roadster Sport - Boing Boing 2009
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For example, if part of the manufacturing process uses a machine that runs on, say, diesel, that would count as being somewhat eco-unfriendly.
A fast food morning with the Tesla Roadster Sport - Boing Boing 2009
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Appropos of your recent gripe with Toyota and its outsized (and eco-unfriendly) flyer for its new Prius, here's one from Comcast, which arrived in today's post.
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From 3D glasses to eco-unfriendly frames to disposable contact lenses: keep the environment in your sights
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