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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...
Golden Ticket Encourages Recycling
Residents in Cambridge will soon find it easier and cleaner to recycle their glass, plastic, metal, and paper products. The Cambridge Council has announced that it will wheel out thousands of new bins for residents which will replace the old...
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...
Mobiles Could Be Harming Crops Too
Mobile phones have grabbed the headlines for a number of unpleasant reasons, from allegations of causing brain tumours to blowing up petrol bunks.
Now a study by the Punjab University says mobile phones can cause crop damage too.
A recent study...
New Guide to Cell Phone Radiation
Over 4 billion people in the world have cell phones. They’re handy, portable, inexpensive and we wonder how we even got along with out them before we had one. Cell phones are here to stay, there’s no doubt about that. But there are mounting...
Birmingham Celebrates, IT Recycling
Birmingham City Council has said “mountains” of old IT equipment has been recycled or reused in an environmentally-friendly initiative.
Under the venture launched in May 2008, Birmingham residents can have their old IT equipment...
230 MPG… Can It Be True?
General Motors (GM) announced that the new Chevy Volt electric car could get up to 230 miles per gallon (MPG) under new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) guidelines for electric cars. (The EPA gave the Toyota Prius a 51 MPG rating,...
