Paper recycling equipment is a major part of our war on pollution and waste of natural resources. It is what helps us reuse paper so that we don’t have to harvest as many trees. It helps us minimize the amount of garbage deposited in landfill. Paper recycling is also the biggest weapon in our fight against things like identity theft.

Paper recycling equipment can be as simple as the shredder a person puts over his or her waste basket at home, or as complex as the machines that take mash made from the old paper and create new paper to be used in recycled products from stationery to shopping bags to corrugated cardboard boxes to books. It can be as simple as a paper cutter, to halve used sheets of paper to make pads for taking notes (something that I picked up from my father, long before recycling became popular), or saving paper that is printed on one side and running it through your printer to use the other side (a trick many writers use to cut down on paper costs).

Paper Recycling Equipment

Shredders, whether individual or huge industrial level, are the most well known paper recycling equipment. However, other paper recycling equipment includes balers, compactors, presses, beaters, stitchers, gluers, tanks, and the chemicals and water used to remove ink and break down the used paper into a mash that can be reused.

Any office can start a paper recycling program with minimal use of paper recycling equipment. Unless an office takes in massive deliveries, either individual paper shredders or a number of specific paper recycling bins and an industrial shredder should be sufficient. A large organization might want to invest in a baler, to compress and tie boxes, but except for such large companies, twine or string should suffice for tying cardboard, magazines, etc. If the company doesn’t want to invest in supplies to recycle paper, it can contract with a local paper recycler, who will not only haul away the waste paper for processing, but might even supply marked waste bins for paper products. Such a recycling program can reduce an office’s waste paper production by about 85%. Since waste paper is about 40% of municipal waste totals, if every office in a community commits to such a program, it will make a significant positive impact on the environment.

Paper recycling equipment such as shredders are easy to install and use. They are also instrumental in preventing identity theft since the bulk of such thefts occur from someone picking up a page with sensitive information on it.

Even though society as a whole seems to be moving toward going paperless, paper recycling equipment is still a necessity, if we are to maintain control over the amount of paper in our lives.

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Steel has been recycled more than almost any other material. Steel recycling equipment has been used in the steel industry for the reuse of at least 50% steel recycled in the past 50 years. Everyday people use steel, though many may not be aware that the metal they use each day has been recycled, often more than just a few times!

Steel recycling equipment has been used by steel manufacturers and steel recyclers for years. Because of the ease and availability of steel to recycle, steel recycling equipment is readily purchased. Companies are able to list used equipment, such as conveyors, shredders, pickers, and other sorting machines. Many machines have been utilized by other recycling plants because of the advanced systems made possible by steel recycling.

Steel Recycling Equipment

Steel recycling equipment makes the steel that you use everyday. Annually, millions of tons of steel are recycled. This is where all new steel comes from! The cans in your pantry, your car, ovens, refrigerators, and more metal items are all reused steel that may have been in your home before. Steel has infinite recycling capacity and is known by some as the ‘environmetal’. Steel recycling equipment used in steel recycling plants have become so efficient that emissions affecting the air and water systems have been reduced by 90% in the past ten years.

The use of steel recycling equipment is the most widely distributed of all recycling equipments in the world. Most steel recycling equipment is located in North America, even though the entire world recycles steel. The consumption of steel in North America exceeds that of other areas due to the high demand for cars, cans, and luxury metal items.

Steel recycling equipment is an investment in a sustainable future of metal. In the past, one hundred and forty pounds of steel were needed to remake one hundred pounds. Today that number has dropped to one hundred and fourteen pounds. This means that better handling and more efficient means has increased the efficiency of recycling. Waste material from the melting of steel is about six hundred pounds per ton of steel. At one time this slag was wasted, now it is collected and used in other applications, extending the reach of recycling.

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Marathon Recycling Equipment is one of the leaders in the field of recycling equipment. no matter what is needed to recycle materials for a project, it is likely that Marathon Recycling Equipment will be able to meet the project’s needs. Balers, hydraulic pumps, power units, keys, motors, and parts for pumps and compactors, if Marathon can think of a way to improve on the service or technology, they will do so.

Marathon Recycling Equipment even has a special line of products called GreenBuiltTM, which are made with sustainability in mind. They run on either submerged power units or solar-powered units, and use biodegradable oil. Their goal in these products is to make measurable progress in reducing fuel and energy consumption needed to run these compactors, as well as providing superior performance.

Marathon Recycling Equipment

Marathon Recycling Equipment has been a proponent, and manufacturer, of on-site recycling and waste compaction systems since its beginning in 1967. It came out of discussions between Lawson Acton and Jack Wright over the inability of small businesses, shopping malls, etc., to be able to afford the battleship-like stationary compactors then available. Pooling their various expertises, they started manufacturing the Ramjet compactor, which was as powerful as a larger unit and about half the size of that larger unit, in 1967 out of a small abandoned service station in Birmingham, Alabama.

Now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dover Corporation, Marathon Recycling Equipment has especially progressed in product development. In addition to their staple line of Ramjet compactors and container products, they now produce a full line of balers (vertical, horizontal, and two ram) called NEXGEN, and the parts for them, as well as the above-mentioned GreenBuiltTM line. They have created a gear-driven tieing system, called TIEger, for their various balers, and a conveyor line called EZ-TraxTM for their compacting plants.

Marathon Recycling Equipment has consistently developed innovative technologies and machinery to deliver superior performance while adding to sustainability efforts. In addition to winning numerous environmental and industrial awards, their President, Gordon Shaw (who took the helm of Marathon in January 2003), has been inducted into the Environmental Association’s Hall of Fame because of his ongoing commitment and contributions to the waste industry for over 25 years.

Marathon Recycling Equipment has made it possible, and economically feasible, for small businesses, shopping malls, apartment buildings, and construction companies to save thousands of dollars on waste compaction each year, rather than having to contract out for these services.

With a motto of Listening Today, Implementing Tomorrow as their standard, Marathon Recycling Equipment is dedicated to creating innovative technology and implementing it quickly and efficiently into all their products.

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A quick search for IT equipment recycling in Atlanta yields many results. A large portion of the recycling companies provide services for the collection of rechargeable batteries. These batteries have become more popular over the past few years as a way to reduce the amount of chemical waste in our landfills. While the use of batteries that can be recharged do have a positive impact on our environment, sooner or later they will need to be disposed of. By choosing to recycle these batteries, you will have an even larger positive impact.

Did you know that IT equipment recycling in Atlanta removes at least 4 pounds of lead from waste sites per computer monitor or television? Over the course of just 3 years, discarded cell phones can amount to sixty-five tons of solid waste. In just one year alone, IT waste deposits at least 3 million tons into landfills.

You may wonder what other products you can recycle. IT equipment recycling in Atlanta is wonderfully diverse! Cell phones, computer monitors, keyboards, and even lamps from your office can be recycled. Some companies refer to the IT equipment recycled as E-waste. In most cases, if you have a product in your office, it can be recycled into something new. IT equipment recycling in Atlanta removes your office from the wasteful cycle of yesteryear.

Thanks to IT equipment recycling in Atlanta, copy machines, workstations, and other such products are not being wasted in the numbers of the past. This had led to a significant reduction in chemical waste leeching into groundwater supplies. Still, there is much work to be done to completely eliminate the problem of groundwater pollution. IT equipment recycling in Atlanta is a huge step in controlling this problem.

IT equipment recycling in Atlanta relies on companies that properly dispose of materials from your office, whether at home or in an industrial setting. Each and every person who uses IT equipment can impact the earth in a positive manner by locating a recycling center near them. A small amount of research into the policies of the companies near you will result in better prices, more efficient disposal, and a cleaner planet.

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As with pretty much everything these days, you can find listings and recommendations of dealers selling recycling equipment used on the Internet, often with explanations of what standards they hew to and what specific recycling and governmental guidelines their machines serve. These resellers often have a wider choice of machines and parts available for a job, and often have access to brands of equipment not readily available in a specific country. Often, these dealers offer guarantees at least as strong as the original manufacturer, and you are less likely to be just a number to them. Further, their mechanics and technicians are likely to have a wider knowledge base than those working for a specific manufacturer since they work on many pieces of equipment from multiple manufacturers.

Buying recycling equipment used will allow your organization a shot at getting top of the line equipment at a price it can afford. When you are talking about machinery that costs tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars new, buying used recycling equipment can have an immense impact on an organization’s bottom line by saving that organization thousands of dollars that can then be put to other uses. This holds true whether you are purchasing the equipment as is or having it refurbished before delivery. Also, buying recycling equipment used helps an organization further its own policy by recycling equipment that had been used at another time and place, rather than causing more equipment to be newly manufactured. It can also make the difference between a smaller organization having or not having a recycling program at all.

Purchasing recycling equipment used not only is a good policy for the equipment itself, but for the parts and supplies used to maintain the machines. If a used machine is properly maintained, it can have an over 99% uptime, minimizing problems at all steps of its processes, and maximizing the cost-effectiveness of the machine itself.

For most smaller organizations, and even for large ones, buying their recycling equipment used, whether over the Internet or in person at a local used equipment and parts reseller/broker, is an idea whose time has clearly come.

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One of the first steps in IT equipment recycling is the removal of data and software from the machine. There are four levels of security for data removal:

Level 1: Operating System FDISK and format the hard drive
Level 2: Third-Party Disk Utilities Deletion of data from the hard drive, followed by Level 1 procedures
Level 3: Department of Defense 5220.22-M Standard Compliant random writing of 1′s and 0′s across each sector and track seven times. This process meets the security requirements of the Department of Defense.
Level 4: Total Hard Drive Destruction The drive’s plates and housing are completely physically crushed.

Data and software removal is one of the most important steps in IT equipment recycling, because the equipment is more often recycled than destroyed. For example, machines that are obsolete by current standards can often be refurbished and used in programs to provide computers to the underprivileged.

IT equipment recycling can even be practiced at home by refilling ink cartridges, or sending them to recycling centers in the envelopes provided with the cartridges, or cannibalizing an old computer for spare parts for a newer one. Creative individuals have turned used CDs into everything from place mats to spindle whorls. Floppy disks have been used to make messenger bags. American Express had an interesting way of IT Equipment Recycling. About once a year, they would offer machines they were no longer using to their employees at discount prices (once the data and software had been wiped and the hard drives reformatted). That way, they recouped some of the cost of purchasing the machines, did not have to pay haulage to have them removed or destroyed, and benefited their employees. Some computer manufacturers have implemented asset recovery programs, offering a rebate on new purchases based on what the manufacturer considers a fair price for the returned equipment.

Proper IT equipment recycling also involves checking with the local recycling or environmental agency for disposal and/or recycling guidelines, since older items often contain toxic materials. Old CRTs. for example, can contain up to four pounds of lead. Further, some states have outright bans on disposing of computer equipment in landfills, which means you cannot just dump them in the trash to be hauled away.

As shown above, IT equipment recycling can be done at many levels, from individual to major organization. With a bit of knowledge, and some measure of creativity, it is also one of the easiest types of recycling to implement.

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However, wood exists not juts on spreadsheets, but also as a major component in a larger and more complex ecosystem. For instance, it is impossible to consider the energetics of wood without considering the impact that removing trees has on the elimination of excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Another important thing to consider is the difference between a small tree and a large tree. Even a tree that is several decades old and nearing what most in the paper and logging industry would deem harvestable size differs considerably in the composition of the ecosystem around it from an old growth tree. The characteristics of the wood are also different.

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Hot Water Heater Recycling Equipment is used to reduce hot water heaters into their components in order to recycle, refurbish, or destroy the parts. Hot water heaters are made from a combination of ferrous and non-ferrous materials, which must be broken down and sorted for proper disposal.

For homeowners, the first parts of removing a hot water heater for recycling or disposal takes place without special hot water heater recycling equipment. The steps the homeowner would take are to first turn off the power to the heater. Next, the wires should be disconnected (and labeled to facilitate connection to a new unit). That should be followed by turning off the water and letting the tank cool. After the tank has cooled, the next step is to connect a hose to the tank (there should be a drain valve), and put the other end of the hose in a work basin or other area that will not be ruined by an influx of water that may be chemically contaminated. After checking that the connection is secure, open the drain valve and drain the tank. Once the tank is drained, disconnect the heater from the hot and cold water pipes. This can usually be accomplished by simply unscrewing the connector hoses, but if the pipes are attached directly, you might have to cut and cap the lines. Once that is done, you (hopefully with a helper) can move the old heater to a spot where a recycling contractor can safely pick it up.

Hot Water Heater Recycling Equipment

Once the contractor has picked up the old heater, hot water heater recycling equipment comes into play. This equipment will break down the old heater into component parts such as various types of scrap metals so that it can be resold or disposed of properly. For instance, separators and granulators can remove sediment and particles from the lining of the tank, and form it into briquettes or into granules for resale to manufacturers. Fiberglass used in liners or exterior walls can be shredded and reconstituted, or turned into particles that can be added to virgin materials to cut down on the amount of fiberglass left in landfills.

After all the non-metal bits have been removed, the final piece of hot water heater recycling equipment used would be the crusher that is used to compact the metal remains so that they can be sold to

As noted above, hot water heater recycling equipment only comes into play after the machine has been disconnected and removed from the home or office building it served. This means that the beginning steps in the process can be carried out by anyone with basic mechanical knowledge.

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Heavy Duty Recycling Equipment is the equipment used to recycle machinery from large plants, such as those in the various power and transportation (including recycling and/or disposal of trucks, truck parts, snowplows, etc), logging, building (including both destruction and new construction) industries. Recycling and disposal of the equipment these industries use is not only expensive, but is often dangerous, both to the workers handling the materials, and to the environment. This is because much of the material to be re4cycled or destroyed had toxic components. Most heavy duty recycling equipment facilities take special care to provide environmental safeguards, such as fully-contained site-perimeter drainage, contiguous heavy-duty steel interlinked containment bays, over-sized oil interceptors, virtually impervious high-grade micro-silica concrete slab construction. If possible, heavy duty recycling equipment facilities are built with an underlying heavy duty geo-membrane, to create a seal against damaging the surrounding soil.

Heavy Duty Recycling Equipment

Heavy Duty Recycling Equipment includes machines and systems such as:

• Twin chamber incinerators
• PCB decontamination equipment
• An in-house laboratory, with a gas chromatography unit
• Solvent wash processing (for removing solid wastes) serviced by installed electric overhead cranes
• SF6 (sulfur hexafluoride) storage, recovery and test facilities
• Bulk oil storage capability for contaminated or non-contaminated oils
• Lift facilities for weights of up to 60 tons
• Equipment and processing methods for handling non-contaminated plant fixtures and equipment
• A dedicated abnormal load entrance, with a weighing station leading to a heavy off-load area for things like transformers and other over-sized plant fixtures.

Heavy Duty Recycling Equipment includes things like crushing machines (such as jaw crushers, impact crushers, and cone crushers), balers and baling presses, compactors, storage containers, airlifts, and materials handling and disposal equipment such as screeners, pan feeders, vibrating shakeouts, conveyors, electrostatic separators, densifiers for recovered plastics, granulators, sewage shredders, hydraulic scrap lifters, chip removal and coolant filtration units.

One of the prime concerns of organizations manufacturing heavy duty recycling equipment is the safety of the workers using this equipment. Therefore, care is taken via the use of screens, covers, and safety equipment to minimize contact between the workers ans the materials recovered or recycled. Additionally, training in safely running such equipment is often required of employees tasked with those jobs.

As concern for the impact on both planet and people grows, the development and use of heavy duty recycling equipment will become more and more mandated by governments and regulatory agencies, in an effort to reduce damage to the air and soil, and to facilitate recycling of reusable components of heavy duty items to reduce the depletion of Earth’s natural resources.

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Equipment For E-Waste Recycling is a relatively new concept. For years, electronic devices were disassembled by hand, and the parts sorted by hand. However, that has changed greatly. Plants containing equipment for E-Waste recycling sort and process electronic equipment to recover the components possible to reuse and to recycle what is not recoverable.

The first piece of equipment for E-Waste recycling is a hopper, which material is fed into. This hopper travels along a conveyor and drops the material into a mechanical separator. The separator further disassembles the item, and sends various pieces to screening and granulating machines. Further, the entire system of equipment for E-Waste recycling is a closed, contained system, which utilizes a dust collection system to prevent toxic dust leaching into the air.

Equipment For E-Waste Recycling

While purchasing equipment for E-Waste recycling is clearly not for everyone, many businesses and government organizations are creating programs to collect items for recycling or reuse. As an example, the US Post Office has teamed up with Clover Technology Group to create a free national program to collect small electronic products, such as cell phones, digital cameras, printer cartridges, MP3 players, and PDAs. Once the items are collected (Clover pays for the postage to collect the items), they are sorted into those that are reusable as is, those that need refurbishing, and those that need to be destroyed. Sadly, even though Americans discard over 2 million tons of household electronics each year, currently less than 20% get recycled. A major problem with the destruction of these items is that often they contain components that are toxic.

One piece of equipment for E-Waste recycling, which is only used after it has been determined that an item is not salvageable, is a smelter, which strips the item of all plastic parts. Again, the plastic is sent on for further recycling. Precious metals are also extracted for reuse, which (when large enough amounts are accumulated) can have a positive impact on conserving natural resources by reducing environmentally harmful (not to mention costly) mining operations.

Equipment for E-Waste recycling is used to extract steel, plastic, aluminum, copper, and a variety of heavy metals. Much of the plastic can be recycled or used as fuel, however, when the plastic cannot be completely separated it has to be destroyed, usually by incineration or by being dumped in landfills.

While the equipment for E-Waste recycling is not necessarily something everyone is familiar with, the concept of E-Waste recycling is certainly something that is needed to be understood, especially given the massive increase in the use of electronic products by individuals as well as businesses, schools, and scientific facilities.

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