Tag Archives: Recycling
Trash Task Force Sets Recycling Goal
Lawrence, get ready to recycle and get ready to talk about it.
The city’s Solid Waste Task Force at its Thursday evening meeting made a last-minute decision to recommend a new over-arching goal for its trash service: increase the city’s...
Tis the Season to Recycle Those Trees
Residents are being urged to recycle record numbers of Christmas trees following the festive season.
Last year Eastbourne Borough Council recycled 350 trees and is hoping to better that figure in the coming weeks.
There will be 17 temporary...
O2 Offers Mobile Phone Recycling
One of the fastest growing segments of the recycling is businesses dealing with the recycling of small electronic devices like mobile phones, cameras, and Mp3 players. According to a recent report, there are over ninety million unused mobile...
Is Garbage The Solution To Tackling Climate Change?
Converting the rubbish that fills the world’s landfills into biofuel may be the answer to both the growing energy crisis and to tackling carbon emissions, claim scientists in Singapore and Switzerland. New research published in Global Change...
Recycling And Land Reuse Practices Can Help Fight Climate Change
There is much potential to reduce the nation’s greenhouse gases through recycling, waste reduction, smart growth, and by reusing formerly contaminated sites including brownfields.
EPA’s report “Opportunities to Reduce Greenhouse...
Green Living 101: Why Is It Important To Recycle Glass?
Unlike other packing materials, glass is 100 percent recyclable 100 percent of the time. Glass makers and recyclers are calling all Americans to recycle more glass.
The United States does not mandate the recycling of glass. Many counties do...
Reusing Plastic Bottles Can Pose Serious Health Hazards
Refilling and reusing plastic bottles can release toxic cancer-causing chemicals
Most types of plastic bottles are safe to reuse at least a few times if properly washed with hot soapy water. But recent revelations about chemicals in Lexan (plastic...
Detroit Begins Recycling Program
Detroit was one of the largest cities in the country without any form of curbside recycling. Until the start of test recycling program.
This is a pilot project involving 30-thousand households, taking place first on Detroit’s far east...
Recycling Plastic
Plastic is a very common material that is now widely used by everybody in this world. Plastic is used in many ways as it is light weight and compact. The maintenance that is required is very less. Common plastic items that are used are bags,...
Plastic Bags are Killing Us
The most ubiquitous consumer item on Earth, the lowly plastic bag is an environmental scourge like none other, sapping the life out of our oceans and thwarting our attempts to recycle it.
On a foggy Tuesday morning, kids out of school for summer...
