Filatura di Saluzzo, Italy, a manufacturer of polyester yarns for apparel fabrics, now offers its Newlife™ polyester yarns — derived from 100-percent post-consumer recycled plastic bottles — for corporate workwear ...
It’s a fact of office life: Even the best-constructed, most durable office furniture will eventually break down and fall into disrepair. The question for office managers is when to try to fix what’s broken, and when to call it ...
Bike Fixtation partnered with Green Guru to provide simple and cost effective inner tube recycling services for bike rooms, repair kiosks and other public use bicycle repair stations. Bike Fixtation will collect, sort, and send ...
The Secondary Materials and Recycled Textiles Association (SMART) not only sets the industry standard with its Code of Conduct for the clothing collection bin industry, but the organization continues to call for all companies in the ...
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US-based Keep America Beautiful (KAB) and the Coca-Cola foundation have announced a call for applications for the 2013 Coca-Cola/KAB Recycling Bin Grant Program. The Coca-Cola/KAB Recycling Bin Grant Program, funded through a $300,000 ...
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Fort Wayne, Indiana-based Steel Dynamics, Inc. (SDI) reported late Monday that Q4 2012 net income of $61 million on net sales of $1.7 billion more than doubled earnings of $30 million on sales of $1.9 billion in Q4 2011. Q4 earnings were ...
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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
Keep America Beautiful (KAB) and The Coca-Cola Foundation today announced a call for applications for the 2013 Coca-Cola/KAB Recycling Bin Grant Program, a program designed to expand and support recycling in communities across America. The ...
Tags: KAB, Coca-Cola Foundation, Packaging Recycling Grant Program
Who couldn’t use a little peace and calm in their working life? Zen office furniture is one way to get just that. By helping us to concentrate on simplicity and purpose, instead of techy toys and frills, this style fosters a more ...
BYOD is a misnomer, while current MDM solutions are "stop-gap technologies" preceding full understanding of mobile data management. This is according to Joe Baguley, chief technologist for EMEA at virtualisation firm VMware, speaking to ...
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One tunnel or two? Forget the tunnels; fix the levees for more water. We don’t need more water; we can conserve and recycle ourselves into the future. Water for agriculture is not my problem. As political leaders once again ...
Tags: water, agriculture, Californians, Water Crisis
Innovative hand held electrical test instrumentation has been used on the installation of a new solar PV system which has been designed to enable a school to reduce its carbon footprint. Southern Solar, one of the UK’s leading ...
Tags: Solar PV Test Technology, solar PV system, photovoltaic systems
Marks & Spencer (M&S) is to open a very different type of store this Thursday when a two-day Oxfam pop-up Shwop Shop is unveiled at its flagship Marble Arch store. The Shwop Shop will be a one-of-a-kind secondhand store that will sell the ...
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On January 24, 1935, the first canned beer was sold. Today, canned beer is the most popular container for the beverage and has even grown in popularity even among craft brewers, such as Oskar Blues. The properties of the aluminum can ...
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The Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) has warned its members about fraudulent scrap transactions reported over the past several weeks. BIR stated that scrap metal recyclers have been offered non-existent cargoes of scrap metal. The ...
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