Our recycling blog features article from across the web on a wide variety of recycling issues. We are interested in what is being done to reduce the solid waste stream worldwide and what the waste is being turned into. Whether it's energy, fuel, new products or reclaimed raw materials, it will get our attention. If you know of a new process or use for recycled materials, send it to us and we will try to include it here.
America Recycles Day, founded in 1997, is the only nationally recognized day dedicated to the promotion of recycling in the United States. It serves as a great reminder to all Americans that we are responsible for doing our part for the planet. America is appropriately considered a nation of consumers and every year we use an astonishing amount of resources. Our consumption is significantly disproportionate to our population. It would take more than five Earths to be abl...
How often have you visited the doctor, or had blood drawn, and noticed the nurse drop your syringe or lancet into a box labeled “biohazard?” Consider this: Americans generate 6,600 tons of waste each day and 10 to 15 percent of those used materials include biohazard waste like sharps and syringes.
Now, imagine there was a way to sterilize and renew the plastics and metal that make up those tons of used, dangerous sharp materials. That’s just what Waste Management and BD...
Almost fairytale-like, Noble Elementary School this year converted trash into treasure.
But it took a lot more than a fervent wish and a wave of a wand for the Berryessa school to win a $50,000 play structure for the school's empty playground. In a mega-recycling campaign, for one year students and parents saved, sorted and shipped what normally ends up in the trash: empty Doritos bags, Lunchables trays, Elmer's glue bottles, Colgate toothbrushes and toothpaste tubes.
Green Sky Industries, aClifton-based recycling company with hundreds of municipal and commercial customers, was named one of the state Department of Environmental Protection's annual recycling award winners Thursday.
The DEP cited the company for its "commitment to boosting awareness" about the merits of recycling by bringing recycling lessons to New Jersey classrooms as well as senior citizen groups, local fairs and ecology-based events throughout the state.
HOBART | Hobart's ongoing commitment to increase household recycling has been noticed by state officials.
The city of Hobart, School City of Hobart and Lake County Solid Waste Management District were honored with a 2011 Indiana Governor's Award for Environmental Excellence.
The certificate of honor was awarded Tuesday at the Lilly Conference Center in Indianapolis.
The award was presented in the Outreach of Education category to Hobart Mayor Brian Snedecor and other staff ...
10/19/2011 - SCHRIEVER AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. -- Now, more than ever, opportunities are available for residents and businesses to recycle. With the growing population it is becoming critical for everyone to do their part.
>Recycling is an important way for individuals and businesses to reduce waste generated and its negative impact. Recycling conserves natural resources, saves landfill space, conserves energy and reduces w...
E-Cycling. No, it’s not a version of extreme bicycling. It's when a person disposes of electronics in a responsible,environmentallyfriendlyway. With so many different gadgets on the market its only a matter of time before they breakdown. Or are replaced by a newer, faster, sleeker model.
In New Jersey, it's actually illegal to discard computers, monitors, televisions and laptops in the general trash. Since Jan. 1, all businesses and households throughout New Jersey m...
AURORA, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CleanRiver™ Recycling Solutions, a division of Midpoint International, Inc., has introduced patent-pending waste and recycling containers that are easily configured and reconfigured to meet current and future waste stream requirements.Transition™ TPM Configurable Recycling and Waste Containerscan be modified onsite with interchangeable opening plates and movable internal dividers to handle up to four separate types of waste and recyc...
Campus recycling has reached new heights since the implementation of a system 10 years ago.
A recycling program of some type has been in effect at Texas State since the 1990s, and most recently the amount of recyclables collected has reach an all-time high.
Students, faculty and staff recycled a total of 272.36 tons of paper and 116 tons of cardboard last year.
“At this point we’re at a record high,” said Jenna Gonzales, website creator and manager for Recyc...
That fax machine gave out before your youngest child was born, and now she’s in driver’s ed. There’s really no reason why it is still up in the attic, but if you need another reason to pitch it, consider this: pretty soon it will be illegal to set it on the curb.
On Jan. 1, 2012, Illinois will become one of the 23 states that forbid dumping of electronic waste in landfills.
Required by law to recycle a certain percentage of what they sell, electronics manufactur...
Since the day we were born, we have always heard that we should recycle plastic. Blue bins are ubiquitous across the globe. Recycling is good for the environment, and therefore, provides us with a satisfaction that we are making the planet a better place to live. However, recycling plastics is also big business, and with the rise of globalization, it will only get bigger.
Across the globe, millions of people are using technological advances to lift them out of poverty. As this M...
Atlanta (CNN)-- They say one man's trash is another man's treasure and for Tom Szaky, founder and CEO of TerraCycle, that couldn't be more true.
His New Jersey-based company is helping millions of people wise-up to waste recycling. But is was a wacky idea that got 29-year-old Szaky started.
"My friends and I were trying to grow some plants and realized worm poop was one of the best fertilizers to feed them," Szaky said, "...and that suddenly started getting me to thinking differe...
One month into a new recycling program, University of Iowa officials say they are pleased by the initial spike in participation on campus.
The school transitioned to a sort-free form of recycling at the beginning of the school year, and so far it appears to have made an impact on people's willingness to recycle, said Liz Christiansen, director of the UI Office of Sustainability.
Christiansen said recycling increased more than 9 percent from September 2010 to September 20...
For more than a decade, local municipalities have been paying recycling companies to take recyclable material.
The efforts paid off in that landfills fill up less quickly and thus have longer life spans — but it has been at great cost to taxpayers. That has changed, however, with a swing in the market.
But the change has Pekin officials wondering why the city was left in the dark about payments that other municipalities have been receiving for about a year as Midland Dav...
OLDSMAR — Within a few months, city residents should be able to recycle more items more conveniently.
At last week's City Council meeting, Oldsmar leaders approved changes to an agreement with the company that collects trash for the city, allowing it to take over recycling pickups by January.
Currently, the city handles recycling. Each household organizes a limited selection of recyclable items into an 18-gallon bin. They're asked to put paper products on the bottom, c...
OMAN is committed to sustainable development. One of the key elements that advances this noble practice is recycling. Oman’s commitment to environmental protection and cleanliness is also well known. Recycling is a great way in saving the environment and maintaining all-round cleanliness. According to the Brundtland Report “Our Common Future”, “Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of futur...
When members of "Kick it to the Curb, Hattiesburg" set out to help the City of Hattiesburg implement a city-wide curbside recycling program, they had one goal in mind: improve the quality of life for the Hub City.
"When people look at moving into communities, there are certain amenities they like to see," said Roman Galey, a member of the Area Development Partnership's 2011 Leadership Pinebelt Class. "And curbside recycling is one of them."
It's the great recycling divide. No, not between tree-huggers and people who could care less; it's between our recycling habits at home and at work.
Strangely, where 77% of people recycle milk or juice cartons at home, only 30% do in the office, and while 82% recycle their plastic bottles at home, only 41% do in the office.
According to Repak's research published this week for Recycling Week, the main reasons for this work place indifference are that people feel it's no...
Contract Awarded to Provide Secure and Responsible Recycling of the City's IT Assets
AUSTIN, TX--(Marketwire - Oct 6, 2011) - Image Microsystems -- a leading provider of technology restoration, reverse logistics, e-waste recycling, and recycled products manufacturing -- today announced they have been awarded the IT and Computer Asset Recovery and Recycling contract by the City of Austin, Texas.
"We are thrilled to have been awarded this contract," stated Alex Abadi, PhD, ...
You may put your share of the more than 3 billion pizza boxes discarded in the country every year in the recycling bin, but it doesn't mean they're getting a second life. The grease and food (cheese, usually) left in the boxes makes themhard to recycle, if you make the effort to fold the thing enough to get it in the bin in the first place. Now, sustainably-mindedGood News Reuseis looking to take a lot of those boxes out of the landfill with thePi Pan- the reusable pizza...
City of Dayton, Ohio, Projects $100,000 Annual Savings With Incentive-Based Recycling Program Enabled by Alien Technology and CDO Technologies
MORGAN HILL, CA and DAYTON, OH--(Marketwire - Oct 5, 2011) - Alien Technology, an industry leader in Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Ultra High Frequency (UHF) products and services, and CDO Technologies, a full-services systems integrator for government and commercial customers, have cooperated on a novel municipal program desi...
For recyclers who have run into dead ends on where or how to recycle Styrofoam, Denver-based ACH Foam Technologies, which runs a recycling operation from its corporate offices, offers some alternatives from the trash can.
This is great news because the majority of recycling operations eschew the material. While Styrofoam may be regarded as a miracle substance for the packaging industry, it has long been considered a curse with no cure by recyclers and environmentalists du...
The cost of recycling old television sets should be put on the price of new ones, according to a campaigner on electronic waste.
Laurence Zwimpfer, chair of the e-Day Trust, has made the suggestion on the last day of The Great TV Take Back which has enabled new Zealanders to take their old TVs to The Warehouse for recycling for free.
Following next year's digital switchover older TVs will only work if connected to a digital decoder.
Approximately 20,000 Chicago homes do not get recycling services in Chicago. That will change sometime in the next six months, Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Monday, in announcing new competitive bidding process for recycling.
"It's a new day in Chicago," Emanuel said at a press conference announcing the change.
Emanuel joined Streets & San Commissioner Tom Byrne to announce the start of a new process for Chicago's blue cart recycling program. The competition will be between two ...
Recycling innovations are hitting the scene in Moscow, and people are lining up like never before to get involved.
Across town, Greenpeace has set up a temporary drop-off point for people's separated recycled goods. They are also driving special trucks to people's homes – to show the government that Russians are ready to recycle, if given the means.
Recycled material ends up at Kusakowski recycling plant on the outskirts of Moscow, a company that really is pushing t...
At a time when libraries are being closed down and the very future of the book is being questioned, let's give a cheer for the book swap. Organized by the UK newspaper, the Guardian, think of it as a generous act of recycling.
It's such a lovely idea. By sharing a favourite book with a stranger you are inviting them to take part in the enjoyment that you had as a reader. It's like a secret society; but instead of the handshake, it's a book share.
Recycling trash in Knoxville continues to get easier for residents, and the cost to participate has dropped.
Residents once had to sort their recyclables — separating papers from plastics, for example — and then drive them to one of 10 drop-off centers across the city.
Then, beginning several years ago, they could sign up for a paid service that allowed them to dump unsorted recyclables into brown 95-gallon carts emptied every two weeks by the city's garbage contrac...
Sorting garbage for recycling is a project that was adopted by the Kigali City Council (KCC) to manage waste better. The practice does not only protect the environment but also helps owners to recover lost valuables.
Six months ago, the Nyanza dumping site which is managed by Kigali City Council started sorting biodegradable from non-biodegradable waste. This practice made recycling waste easier. Additionally, homesteads are encouraged to do the same to ease the work of garb...
Workers refuse to transfer their good recycling habits from the home into the office.
A new survey shows that almost half of office staff don't recycle in the workplace, despite carefully separating their waste at home and making us one of the best recycling nations in the EU.
Packaging group Repak said yesterday that the Irish people showed a split personality between their domestic and working habits, with 54pc refusing to recycle waste in the office kitchen compared ...
Two bright-yellow containers that were set out for the first time last week at the Barco recycling center could help next year's crop of oysters.
Currituck County is now one of 30 counties in the state collecting shells to be piled up and used as habitat and shelter for baby oysters.
This year, biologists with the North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries bought or collected 70 tons of oyster shells. The shells were loaded on a boat in Wanchese and hauled to artific...
Indianapolis Duke Realty L.P. won approval from a city zoning board last month to open an electronics recycling facility in a warehouse at 8002 Woodland Drive, adjoining I-465 on the Northwestside. The 51,200-square-foot recycling facility won't offer drop-off service to the public.
Where I live, there is NO glass recycling. So is buying beverages in recyclable aluminum "greener" than buying non-recyclable glass? —Gerry, in New Orleans
Recycling glass containers is not easy in the Big Easy, because handling and transporting glass is too costly, according to recycling companies there. But rest easy, Gerry, because it is indeed greener to recycle aluminum containers than to send glass to the landfill. Aluminum recycling saves 95 percent of the energy...
What’s the safest way for me to dispose of old nail polish? Are the chemicals in it harmful in the landfill? - Lana DeBacco
Anyone who’s smelled nail polish knows the fumes can leave you, well, glossy-eyed. Like their colorful and pungent cousins oil-based house paint and paint thinners, nail polish and remover are classified as hazardous household waste by the EPA because of the ecological and health threats they pose when they’re washed into waterways or seep i...
Oh dear, recent news has not been kind to the people of my homeland. Not only are many of my fellow Brits too lazy to insulate or switch energy suppliers. According to one cell phone recycling program, their too lazy to recycle their phones and other gadgets—even when they could make UK£85 (about US$140) for each item!
The O2 Recycle program, run by the O2 cell phone network provider, accepts all kinds of phones, games consoles and mp3 players, and pays out as much as U...
NEW YORK—City sanitation experts confirmed yesterday that the supposed “recycling” of Manhattan resident Ron Klauff was in fact a conglomeration of various recyclable and nonrecyclable refuse that takes city workers an average of two hours and 288 gallons of water to sort and clean each week. “These days, being eco-aware is more important than ever,” said Klauff, filling a plastic shopping bag with a mixture of yogurt containers, wire hangers, and broken electronics th... Continue reading ...
