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• Food Waste Down in Cherwell

  
  Recycling, Green, and Environmental News — Authority: 143
  One of the environmental issues that goes largely overlooked is the recycling of food waste.  Food waste contamination in landfills has become one of the biggest problems, as it can potentially be one of the most disastrous contributors to global warming.  Most people think that food waste is harmless, as it will ...
  2 days ago

• Could denying bedroom privileges save the planet?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  There will be a record number of side events at the United Nations-sponsored climate talks in Copenhagen next month, but one woman’s one-woman show could give the delegates, most of whom will be men, the incentive they really need to agree a new global warming treaty. In “ The Boycott “, Kathryn Blume plays ...
  2 days ago

• Samsung Celebrates E-Waste Milestone

  
  Recycling, Green, and Environmental News — Authority: 143
  The topic of e-waste has been all over the media lately as the world tries to figure out what to do with the millions of tonnes of used electronics that we throw away each year.  The issue has become an ethical one as it was recently discovered that the United Kingdom has been illegally dumping much of its e-waste on ...
  3 days ago

• Computer Aid International reusing old Computers

  
  Recycling, Green, and Environmental News — Authority: 143
  One of the increasing problems of waste management is how to deal and dispose of e-waste.  E-waste, which includes items like computers, mobile phones, printers, and televisions, is rapidly becoming one of the biggest problems for communities aiming to reduce the size of their landfills.  The United Kingdom has been ...
  6 days ago

• New TVs Contributing to Landfills

  
  Recycling, Green, and Environmental News — Authority: 143
  Environmental concerns have increasingly become more important to people around the United Kingdom.  With recent studies showing that the United Kingdom is well behind most of Europe when it comes to recycling and waste management, new pressure has been put on government and local councils to get something done. ...
  1 week ago

• Diesel-electric tractor debuts at O.C. landfill

  
  Green OC — Authority: 472
  A diesel-electric tractor ground through its paces at the Olinda Alpha Landfill in Brea on Tuesday in a demonstration put on by its builder, Caterpillar. The new D7E tractor would be used to bury trash at the landfill if OC Waste and Recycling decides to buy one in the coming fiscal year. Officials from the waste ...
  1 week ago

• Turning dirty diapers into...bicycle helmets?

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 805
  Filed under: Energy , Technology , Green Consider the disposable diaper. Its part engineering marvel, a mechanism that takes one of the most foul side effects of parenthood and absorbs it into a small, manageable, plastic-wrapped package. But its also part environmental catastrophe. The average baby makes ...
  1 week ago

• WRAP Finds that Families Waste Food

  
  Recycling, Green, and Environmental News — Authority: 143
  In all of the talk about climate change the topic that rarely comes up is that of food waste.  People have known for a long time that things like cars, airplane travel, and plastic were bad for the environment and steps have been taken to lessen their impact.  Most people in the United Kingdom recycle and recent ...
  1 week ago

• Recovinyl Reports Surge in PVC Recycling

  
  Recycling, Green, and Environmental News — Authority: 143
  People around the United Kingdom are looking for new and unique ways to reduce waste and increase recycling rates.  This has led to new industries being created, and some used items suddenly having value because of their potential aftermarket uses.  According to a recent study by Recovinyl there has been a surge in ...
  1 week ago

• Throwing Out Food and Paper Will Be Illegal

  
  ECO-CAN News — Authority: 137
  Quebec has taken a long hard look at itself, and decided it doesn’t like what it sees. Its policies simply aren’t working.  Overall waste generated has nearly doubled in the past 10 years, with waste going to landfill rising by over 10% in the same period. Read More: ...
  1 week ago

• EPA and NREL Want to Use Brown Fields for Renewable Energy

  
  Move Trends Real Estate Blog - The Leader in Online Real Estate — Authority: 143
  Along the same lines as using abandoned mines to create algae biofuel, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are pushing to use thousands of identified brown fields–old industrial sites, contaminated landfills, and abandoned mines that have been cleaned to a ...
  1 week ago

• Incinerators could be used to Create Power

  
  Recycling, Green, and Environmental News — Authority: 143
  As the United Kingdom looks for new ways to dispose of rubbish many controversies have arisen regarding the best and safest way to dispose of waste.  As new technology is developed people have to re-think their approach to recycling and waste management.  Landfills are one of the most critical environmental issues ...
  1 week ago

• Recycle Your Day America!

  
  Recycle Your Day — Authority: 419
  Ever wonder where the title Recycle Your Day came from? To make a long story short, in my opinion, recycling is one of the easiest forms to contribute in helping to save the planet and within our day we do what’s necessary to improve the planet from recycling to wearing your jeans over and over again . It all ...
  1 week ago

• RISK ASSESSMENT SUPPORTING THE FINAL RULE FOR SOLVENT-CONTAMINAT...

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 156
  This analysis evaluates potential risks due to release of solvents from laundry sludge and disposable wipes sent to a landfill. Receptors for air and groundwater in lined and unlined landfills were evaluated. The potential solvent concentrations were calculated to determine the solvent loadings from the wipes and ...
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• New Recycling Numbers Show Improvement

  
  Recycling, Green, and Environmental News — Authority: 143
  The United Kingdom has suffered attacks in the media which claim that it is not doing its part to effectively implement recycling and waste management schemes.  Recent reports show that the United Kingdom lags behind many of the objectives set out by the European Union, as well as ones enacted by its own ...
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• Mobile Phone Manufacturers Paid to Recycle

  
  Recycling, Green, and Environmental News — Authority: 143
  Recent studies have shown that mobile phones could become one of the biggest threats to the environment.  Chemicals from mobile phone batteries eventually leak, so when they are put into a landfill it is just a matter of time before harmful chemicals are leeched into the soil.  Eventually these chemicals find their ...
  2 weeks ago

• Fast Food Nation Frustration

  
  TexasVox: The Voice of Public Citizen in Texas — Authority: 557
  For years fast food restaurants have been our nation’s go-to source for cheap, quick food we can eat on the run or take home to the family to avoid cooking dinner for the night.  I am betting that almost every person reading this blog has or will eat a product of the fast food faction at some point this week.  ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mobile Phone Waste Poses Threat to Environment

  
  Recycling, Green, and Environmental News — Authority: 143
  Environmental issues have been at the forefront of discussion lately as the world gears up for the United Nations summit on climate change in Copenhagen in December.  For years people have known about the benefits of recycling things like paper, plastic, glass, and metal but what many didn’t know is that one of the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Appeals panel: No landfill near Calf. natl park

  
  Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com — Authority: 166
  A federal appeals court panel has upheld a 2005 court decision that effectively halted the development of what would have been one of the nations largest landfills near Joshua Tree National Park.
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• America Recycles Day - November 15th

  
  Courier Times Now — Authority: 590
  Recommit to recycling for the health of the planet PHILADELPHIA - - Once a year the U.S. EPA officially  reminds everyone that recycling plays a dramatic role in reducing pollution. This year American Recycles Day is celebrated on Sunday, November 15. It’s a great day to recommit to recycling - an ...
  2 weeks ago

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