Recycling Facts Guide

Setting up an office recycling scheme is something that all businesses can do to help the environment, and in many cases save money. Regardless of how many people work in your office, there are always steps that can be taken to recycle some of your waste. This article provides five useful tips to follow when [...]

Recycling is sort of like exercising: we all know we should do it, but not all of us do it as often as we should—and some of us don’t do it at all. However, there are lots of reasons why you should make an effort to recycle as much as possible. If you haven’t been [...]

Did you know that the UK generates between 550,000 and 900,000 tonnes of textile waste every year? It’s a staggering amount of waste. Up to 700,000 tonnes of textiles are landfilled every year – half of this amount could be recycled. The solution is to collect waste materials and put them into a textiles ‘clothes’ [...]

Recycling used rail ties and railroad rails began as a salvaging and recycling “given” long before going “green” with recycling revived in popularity in the most recent decades. One currently functional railroad rail recycling company started operations in 1959 when its 19-year-old founder, Kern Schumacher, heard about thousands of railroad ties about to be removed [...]

Recycling is currently a very hot topic, and in the UK many companies are using their “Green Credentials” for marketing gain. The words green and blue – simple colours right? Well, wrong. Leading firms such as Volkswagen have adopted Blue Motion (Blue being the new green) and many others have Green products that boast about [...]

Have you ever wondered what happens when you keep gas too long? Anyone who has ever put a vehicle away for more than a few months without putting an octane stabilizing chemical in the tank: varnish. In short, you just killed your car without some very serious work. So what happens to all this gas [...]

Recycling has over recent years become more and more popular in communities. Curbside recycling programs are available in many areas, and many businesses also recycle. When thinking in terms of vast amount of paper goods though, it seems that schools would be ideal targets for paper recycling programs. The amount of paper used in each [...]

Without a doubt the best play time is spent outside in the fresh air and in an effort to remain responsible to the environment there are a few things to keep in mind when out and about. The best place to play is somewhere that you don’t need to fly to, take a train to, [...]

Imagine you own a store that sells consumer electronics. If you do, that shouldn’t be hard. Why would you want to go to the bother of offering battery recycling to your customers? Well, for starters, it won’t cost you anything, and the hassle will be minimal. When Oregon instituted the nation’s first bottle bill in [...]

There’s more than a bunch of rubbish to be concerned about at landfill sites, and a whole lot more than methane to be contained. Consider what trash, some of it dating back decades, is made of. In many cases, the breakdown components of the furniture polish, hair spray and pesticides that people threw out with [...]