Archive for the 'Recycle' Category
Food Recycling Law A Hit In San Francisco
Posted on October 27, 2009 - Filed Under Recycle | 1 Comment
Tossing food scraps in your garbage can is a crime — at least in San Francisco. A brand-new city law requires residents to discard food waste in a separate bin.
It’s the first program of its kind in the nation, and so far, it’s a mandate San Franciscans seem to relish. In fact, many residents and landlords [...]
Benefits of Recycling Outweigh the Costs? Is This True?
Posted on September 14, 2009 - Filed Under Recycle | Leave a Comment
Controversy over the benefits of recycling bubbled up in 1996 when columnist John Tierney posited in a New York Times Magazine article that “recycling is garbage.”
“Mandatory recycling programs,” he wrote, “…offer mainly short-term benefits to a few groups — politicians, public relations consultants, environmental organizations and waste handling corporations — while diverting money from genuine social [...]
U.N. Environmental Chief Called for Worldwide Ban on Plastic Bags
Posted on June 9, 2009 - Filed Under Recycle, environment | Leave a Comment
Single-use plastic bags, a staple of American life, have got to go, the United Nations’ top environmental official said.
Although recycling bags is on the rise in the United States, an estimated 90 billion thin bags a year, most used to handle produce and groceries, go unrecycled. They were the second most common form of litter [...]
Tougher Recycling Rules for San Francisco?
Posted on June 8, 2009 - Filed Under Recycle | Leave a Comment
To recycle, or not to recycle? That may no longer be a matter of debate in San Francisco, where a new mandatory recycling and composting law is poised for approval.
The ordinance, which will be considered by the city’s Board of Supervisors, would require residential and commercial building owners to sign up for recycling and composting [...]
Waste Management Invests in Trash-to-Energy Tech
Posted on May 23, 2009 - Filed Under Recycle, environment | Leave a Comment
Municipal trash giant Waste Management created a joint venture that will turn waste into energy using technology that it says is cleaner than incinerators.
S4 Energy Solutions is a joint venture which will use plasma gasification technology from InEnTec of Bend, Ore., to build distributed energy systems. Waste Management financed the creation of the venture, marking [...]
National Recycling Initiative Seeks Govt Support
Posted on April 5, 2009 - Filed Under Recycle, environment | Leave a Comment
More than 20 of Australia’s biggest recycling companies have launched an initiative which they say could create 6,000 new jobs.
The companies – calling themselves the Boomerang Alliance – are urging state governments to spend up to $100 million over the next five years to support a new national recycling program.
In return, the alliance says it [...]
Cell Phone Recycling
Posted on April 1, 2009 - Filed Under Recycle | Leave a Comment
As cell phones proliferate they are giving computers and monitors some competition for the dubious distinction as the largest contributor to the world’s growing e-waste problem. Indeed, toxin-laden electronics are clogging landfills and polluting air and groundwater supplies from coast to coast.
Cell Phones are Among the Fastest Growing Types of Trash
The average North American gets [...]
Samsung Launches Solar-Powered Phone
Posted on February 16, 2009 - Filed Under Environmental Friendly, Recycle, Renewable Energy, solar powered | Leave a Comment
Global number two mobile phone maker Samsung launched five new phones on Monday including a model made from recycled plastic with a solar panel on the back for charging.Samsung said in a statement its “Blue Earth” solar-powered model had a touch screen and was made from plastic taken from used water bottles. It did not [...]
Motorola Introduced Cell Phone Made From Recycled Water Bottles
Posted on January 7, 2009 - Filed Under Eco Freindly, Environmental Friendly, Environmentally clean, Recycle | Leave a Comment
Las Vegas, NV (AHN) – Motorola Inc. introduced a cell phone made from recycled plastic water bottles.
The MOTO W233 Renew’s plastic housing is not only made of recycled material, but the company said the device is the first “carbon neutral” phone.
“Through an alliance with Carbonfund.org, Motorola offsets the carbon dioxide required to manufacture, distribute and [...]
HP Recycled Bag Wins Wal-Mart Packaging Challenge
Posted on September 3, 2008 - Filed Under Recycle | Leave a Comment
A Hewlett-Packard Co notebook computer that’s packaged in a recycled bag rather than a box has won a challenge by retailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc for less wasteful packaging.HP’s Pavilion dv6929, which Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club stores are selling for $798, was singled out for a design that reduces packaging by 97 percent and requires a [...]
