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There were many rumors about Ikea creating an ecological car called Leko. A lot of people thought that is a joke because the news was launched on April 1. According to these rumors, the Ikea Leko car, which is prepared by the Swedish company, is environment friendly, practical, and accessible for everybody. The malicious people are wondering if the car will be already assembled or the buyer can assembly it at home, in the usual Ikea way. The Ikea Leko car promises to be very responsible regarding the pollution problem and also to have a cheap price which sounds perfect.

Ikea wants to invest $77 millions in the following 5 years with the goal of selling Ikea solar panels and green products in the Ikea stores. For this goal, Ikea created Cleantech, as a company` s branch for a long time investment in green technological solutions. The solar panels are the safest and the easiest solution of resolving the world` s energetic crisis. The panels don` t pollute the environment, the costs are zero as long as the sun shines, no matter the season. The solar technologies use the sun` s energy to produce heat, light, hot water and even conditioned air.

Bio Ikea in Italy means that the employees of Ikea from Padova, Italy, can buy ecological food straight from the producers, due to a project of the IABA (the Italian association for biological agriculture). Through this project, in which IABA implied more than 200 bio farmers from the entire country, to the Ikea` s employees are offered different processed products but also fruits, vegetables, fresh meat and lactates. This is just the ‘pilot episode’ of the project, because IABA wants to ‘feed’ in eco way about 8.000 employees from 14 Italian Ikea stores. The scope is to make people buy the bio products.

The Ikea home is also known as the boklok and is sold in Norway, Finland, Sweden and the Great Britain. The price of the Ikea home is relatively small, of about 100.000 euros, with the condition to exists the land already in the payee` s property. In Sweden, a bolok apartment with two rooms costs under 25.000 euros and the fabricants` s intention is to offer such homes to anyone, even to the single persons with a relatively reduced income. The architecture of an Ikea home is simple and the assembly needs few days or weeks, and the materials are prefabricated.

Among the various Eco Ikea programs is the one of replacing the plastic bags with the paper bags. Also, the Ikea clients can win an economic and ecologic electric lamp. For that, they have to bring five old electric lamps from their homes. The lamps can be of any type, all the lamps being recycled. More, in the Ikea stores are recycle bins where the clients can bring the used mercury that contain light bulbs. The recycle bins are included in the Ikea` s Free Take Back program. The materials used by Ikea are recycled and green; for example, the clients can buy a nice collection of boxes that were made from recycled newspapers from India.

Among the various Eco Ikea programs is the one of replacing the plastic bags with the paper bags. Also, the Ikea clients can win an economic and ecologic electric lamp. For that, they have to bring five old electric lamps from their homes. The lamps can be of any type, all the lamps being recycled. More, in the Ikea stores are recycle bins where the clients can bring the used mercury that contain light bulbs. The recycle bins are included in the Ikea` s Free Take Back program. The materials used by Ikea are recycled and green; for example, the clients can buy a nice collection of boxes that were made from recycled newspapers from India.