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Reuse | Recycle
Recycle Water from Car Wash: Portable for Dealers & Fleets
Hydro Engineering Inc. Hydropad wash rack and recycling system approved by Suffock county in New York.
Hydro Engineering’s breakthrough green technologies are changing the way that auto dealers, construction companies and government entities wash their vehicles and equipment. The Hydropad portable wash pad is perfect for customers who are looking to comply with [...]
$4.8 million: Market traction for recyclers in Latin America
A unique collaboration funds program to bring recyclers in Latin America into the mainstream.
In Latin America, what are known as “informal collectors” are responsible for recovering up to 90 percent of recycled consumer products. An estimated four million people make their living this way. However, the benefits they receive represent only a very small percentage [...]
Disaster trailers: modular and healthy
Industry Innovations Ecoplex™ and Smart-e™ Unveiled Today
The Ecoplex™ is the first mass produced modular trailer for use in natural disasters (and many other applications) that does not contain cancer causing toxins and is 100% recyclable. It is a fresh solution to the “toxic boxes” that have been used to shelter people in natural disasters [...]
New York to become 23rd state to pass e-waste legislation
June 7,2010– Like the program recently enacted in South Carolina and many other states, New York will adopt an extended producer responsibility-based take-back program for used consumer electronics. Under the legislation, which E-Scrap News said “looks to be one of the strictest of the 23 e-scrap take-back programs established nationwide,” OEMs will be expected to [...]
Europe running out of plastic bottles for recycling
Maybe not permanently, but the European Plastic Recyclers Association (EuPR) recently said that the “PET bottles supply for European recycling is too tight” and that “this situation is getting critical for some recycling operations as their input material is getting scarce.”
The shortage of PET plastics is being caused by numerous factors, including exchange rates, a [...]
“Stop Gambling with our Future”
Deal with Climate Change
There are some things that speak louder, and more clearly, than anyone could have imagined. But the UN Foundation has done just that for climate change. They created a full deck of playing cards featuring a selection of the words from the more than 2,000 text, photo and video submissions (from more [...]
Packaging for the Future
Removing Waxy Cardboard from the waste stream is a huge issue, and is currently being solved by a coalition between Global Green, Hunt’s Point in New York City, Mountaire Farms, and Interstate Container.
Doing good business
The project has been such a success that Mountaire Farms is planning to transition its entire product line to recyclable boxes [...]
The problem is waxy, wet paper
Starbuck’s Tests New Idea In Recycling
Ever wonder why companies that want to be “green”, don’t recycle their coffee cups? That’s because cups are a mix of waxy paper for the coffee cup itself, and corrugated paper for that little sleeve that keeps your coffee hot and your fingers cool. Combine those issues with the mess [...]
