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Recycling blog
Thu, 04/18/2013 - 05:38
The Environmental Protection Agency has finalized an interpretation of regulations that will allow plastic materials recovered from metal recycling facilities, automobiles, and other total product destruction services to be recycled. In a...
Tue, 04/16/2013 - 12:51
Europe's tire waste production is 3 million tons per year, and more than 65% to 70% of used tires end up in landfills. Not only are they causing environmental damage, but a loss of added value in the form of new products that recycling can generate. This is why the EU is currently funding a project called TyGRE. The purpose...
Fri, 04/12/2013 - 08:30
Removing oxidation from copper could be as easy as shining a bright light on the metal, engineers at the University of Michigan have discovered in a study funded by the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation. This could drastically simplify the production process for propylene...
Wed, 04/10/2013 - 09:31
The greenest building in the world opens on Earth Day, April 22. Tenants have already begun moving into the six-story Bullitt Center, a 50,...
Mon, 04/08/2013 - 10:54
Vidal Herrera was known in the 1970s and early '80s as "El Muerto"-- the dead one. As the only Spanish-speaking CSI investigator in Los Angeles, Herrera found himself working with thousands of corpses, until an injury and subsequent surgery took him off the job with the coroner's office 25...
Tue, 04/02/2013 - 09:51
A new recycling labeling system called How2Recycle has been completed by the Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC). The labeling system communicates recyclability across all material types, gives explicit directions to consumers, and specifies when a package component is not recyclable.
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Tue, 04/02/2013 - 09:50
People tend to regard words like "waste paper" and "junk metal" as something to be disregarded and discarded-- much like the objects they refer to. However, recycling has tremendous value both sustainably and financially. But the past decade's surge in raw material prices has led to a renewed interest in recycling and the financial benefits of sustainability.
For decades, the value of scrap recycling has laid under the radar, largely due...
Thu, 03/21/2013 - 08:38
Becoming more eco-friendly, or going green, provides big benefits to both the environment and your business-- going green is a great way to cut down on costs. Additionally, an increasing interest in environmentalism means that supporting sustainability is more likely to...
Thu, 03/21/2013 - 08:36
A New York company has discovered a potential way to replace plastics with biodegradable matter. The products are all-natural and can be created in less than 5 days, have no allergy concerns and are completely non-toxic. The products are impervious to fire up to a point, are just as water resistant as Styrofoam, are more UV-stable than foam, and will break down in 180 days in any landfill or backyard when exposed to the right microbes. But what is this miracle matter? The answer is an...
Thu, 03/21/2013 - 08:33
As electronics get cheaper and cheaper, Americans are disposing of televisions faster than ever. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, only a small fraction of discarded televisions are recycled, and the rest end up in landfills, where they can leach toxins into the environment. Fortunately,...
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