Officials with the City of Prescott sharpened their pencils this week and are helping the environment. On July 1 they will shift from years of not recycling glass products to a new agreement that will keep tons of bottles and jars from ...
Tags: Glass Recycling, Construction
As people around the world celebrate by planting trees for Earth Day, Alaskans staring at frozen ground can at least bask in the fact that recycling is slowly making strides in the 49th state. For about five months now, residents of ...
Tags: Glass Recycling, Glass
High-end cabinets offer a wide variety of storage accessories, including roll-out shelves, vertical sliding spice racks, and small appliance lifts. But you don't have to rip out your existing storage to get those clutter-busting extras: You ...
Tags: Space Savers, Consumer Electronics
The people who will be responsible for most curbside pick-up in Metro Vancouver next year say they’re frustrated as they try to sort out the issue of glass. Back in February, Multi Material B.C. said glass mixed with other ...
Tags: B.C.Agency, Recycling Glass, Construction
The Borough of Folcroft in Delaware County, Pennsylvania kicked off a new partnership with Community Recycling to encourage textile recycling and reuse while lessening landfill usage. By aligning forces, the two organizations hope to inform ...
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The Swarthmore Borough of Pennsylvania kicked off a new partnership with Community Recycling to encourage textile recycling and reuse while lessening landfill usage. By aligning forces, the two organizations hope to inform about the power ...
Tags: textile recycling, clothing, textiles
Recycling and resource management company SITA UK has opened a pound 2.5m materials recovery facility (MRF) near Wareham in Dorset, UK. The facility can process over 20,000 tonnes of commercial dry mixed recyclables per year using ...
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Everyday,genius and innovation is staring us in the face,and yet we completely miss their possibilities.It's a Zen moment when we can strip away the standard perception and use of ordinary objects,revealing within them their true nature and ...
Tags: Assemblage Lighting, Common Recyclables, Recycled Materials
This year on America Recycles Day, it's time to add textile recycling like clothing, shoes and household goods to the list of things celebrated and discussed. America Recycles Day, November 15, 2012, is the only nationally recognized day ...
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The American Beverage Association is honoring America Recycles Day by supporting a pilot project called "Recycle on the Go" in Palm Beach County, Florida, to increase the amount of recycled cans and bottles and decrease the amount of ...
Tags: Beverage Industry, Public Space Recycling, Space Recycling
In the world of fine arts, we are seeing a progression towards the use of more unconventional materials to create thought provoking pieces. Where the brush, the pencil, or the chisel was the commanding tool of art in the past, artists are ...
Tags: arts, LED lighting, environment
North American packaging recycler, Sonoco Recycling, a unit of Sonoco has announced that Sonoco CorrFlex's Winston Salem, North Carolina facility has secured a silver-tier Sonoco Sustainability Star Award for diverting a minimum of 95% of ...
Tags: Salem Facility, packaging recycler, recycling containers
Waste management company in the US, Republic Services has announced plans to invest nearly $19m to renovate its North St Louis County (Hazelwood) and South St Louis County (Bella Villa) recycling centers. As part of the enhancements, ...
Tags: St Louis Recycling, Waste management, single-stream recycling
The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) announced that over 31,000 tons of plastic, paper, metals and glass were recycled during 2011 by seventy-seven western Massachusetts municipalities. The recyclables were ...
German manufacturer of processing plastics machinery Krauss Maffei has unveiled its new KMD53 K/P conical twin screw extruders, an addition to the company's series of extruders for the medium output range. The new KMD53 K/P has the ...
Tags: Conical Screw Extruders, plastics machinery, screw extruders