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Beginning Recycling at Home

Every year, tons of material that could be recycled aren’t, and end up clogging our already overwhelmed dumps, waterways and roadsides. Most people think it’s a difficult undertaking to organize a recycling center at home. However, with some creativity and commitment, it can be easy to do. You’ll feel better about yourself doing your part [...]

Significance of Waste Management and Recycling

Tons of waste are produced every year and are sent to someplace where they will either be buried or burned. But according to reports, 75% of produced waste can actually be recycled. Recycling, which is the process of creating new products from used materials, can be traced back from the time of Plato, when resources [...]

Waste Management and Recycling

Waste Management and Recycling

Burning or incineration had always been the old reliable in waste disposal since time immemorial. Today, we already have waste management systems and several methods of disposing wastes: landfills, incineration, minimization, composting, and recycling. Each of these methods has its own good and bad points in terms of efficiency, cleanliness in relation to the environment, [...]

Recycling Your Old Auto Parts

Looking for a creative way to getting rid of your old auto parts? Instead of simply selling the auto parts that you currently have stored in your basement or garage then there are more ways than one that you can use to get rid of or recycle them. After all, recycling your auto parts, or [...]

Recycling Your Old Tapestries

If you used to hang an old tapestry on the wall and it is not as good as before, you can try to have it repaired or restored. If this does not work, you have no choice but to replace it with a new one. As for the old one, you can still do something [...]

Tips On Recycling Office Paper

There are several good reasons why office paper must be recycled. First, papers used in offices are usually high-grade, and it’s a shame to see these quality paper reduced to waste. A staggering 77% of these papers are recyclable. Second, an average business office employee can produce a pound and a half of paper waste [...]

Battery Recycling: Help Your Environment

Batteries may contain harmful metals and chemicals such as nickel cadmium, alkaline, mercury, nickel metal hydride and lead acid, which can contaminate the environment if not disposed properly. For example, when batteries containing cadmium is used in landfills, they will eventually dissolve and release the toxic substance that can seep into water supplies, posing serious [...]

Starting a School Recycling Program

Teachers, parents and students have found a way to say goodbye to homework (at least to old homework): They recycle it. In fact, students have helped to contribute to a new record in paper recycling. In 2005, 51.5 percent of paper used in the U.S.-51.3 million tons-was recovered for recycling. To start a school recycling [...]

Recycling Resolutions

Recycling Resolutions For The New Year

Happy New Year! It’s not too late to make your recycling resolutions. The holidays are finally over and we can all hopefully begin slowing down and getting our lives back to normal. If your home is like mine, the holidays left you with a huge mess. Empty boxes and torn wrapping paper litter the floor [...]

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