Last year Resource Commercial Flooring Network members diverted an astonishing 6.8 million pounds of carpet and carpet waste from landfills.
By reducing and sometimes eliminating waste in carpet projects, through their ReSource initiative, Ecolect™ (their national material collection and recycle program), members promote sustainable business practices. They recommend effective, sustainable methods for reclaiming material, diverting it from landfills across [...]
Posts Tagged ‘landfills’
Millions of pounds of commercial flooring diverted from landfills
February 16th, 2010
Posted by: envirothink
New kit will help keep pharmaceuticals out of our water
January 26th, 2010
Posted by: envirothink
On March 10, 2008, MSNBC’s website read:
“Pharmaceuticals lurking in U.S. drinking water … AP probe found traces of meds in water supplies of 41 million Americans”
More stories have since revealed how extensive the problem’s become. The real ramifications of prescription drugs in the water we drink hasn’t been fully determined but this news is certainly enough to scare the heck out of most of us.
Leave it [...]
Categories: Exciting New Technologies Revealed Uncategorized
Tags: biofuel, consumer, environment, innovation, landfills, pharmaceutical, toxic, wastewater
Website helps schools (and teachers) help kids
January 11th, 2010
Posted by: envirothink
In this economy, everyone’s belt tightening. Education’s been squeezed to a choking point, with teachers getting creative to find resources for students.
In 2007, teachers’ out-of-pocket expenses totaled $1,7 billion a year. Nationally, the the average teacher spends around $500 out of pocket annually. An American Federation of Teachers survey found that out of 4,618 teachers, [...]
Scotland Yard recycles weapons for the London Olympics
January 8th, 2010
Posted by: envirothink
Scotland Yard is giving the biblical phrase “swords into plowshares” a new twist.
Usng a unique recycling method, the famed British constabulary is turning the metal from unwanted weaponry into something useful. 52 tons of scrap metal from guns, knives, keys and other assorted metal objects will be melted to be used to make steel girders for bridges and buildings, and used in cars and trains. [...]
TerraCycle to recycle diaper packaging
November 20th, 2009
Posted by: envirothink
The company that created a world-famous organic fertilizer from worm poop and has ”re-purposed” discarded product packaging is at it again.
TerraCycle created their Drink Brigade program two years ago, Since then, they’ve taken product packaging waste like candy and cookie wrappers and used drink pouches that would have ended up in landfills and given them a second life as lunchboxes, binders and portable [...]
Eli Lilly achieves energy efficiency goals 2 years early
October 23rd, 2009
Posted by: envirothink
Eli Lilly and Company, a worldwide pharmaceutical company, has reached and surpassed their energy reduction goals two years ahead of schedule.
Although the reductions are modest – cutting absolute greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 4.4 percent, cutting absolute energy use by 5.8 percent from 2004 to 2008 – Lilly did improve their energy use per dollar of [...]
Categories: Exciting New Deveopments Tags: co2, energy, Energy Efficiency, environmental, G, GHG, greenhouse gas emissions, landfills, pharmaceutical
State cracks down on plastic in landfills
September 30th, 2009
Posted by: envirothink
Tomorrow, it will be illegal to dump plastic bottles into North Carolina landfills. The new law – passed in 2005 - also bans wooden pallets and oil filters from reaching landfills.
A press release from the city of Greensboro, N.C. says almost four of every five plastic soda containers, water bottles, milk jugs and detergent bottles — almost 288 million pounds of [...]
Recycling Scotch Tape?
September 21st, 2009
Posted by: envirothink
The list of what’s recyclable just keeps growing. And TerraCycle is right in the middle of making that happen.
Seems that TerraCycle has added another “brigade” to their list. Through a partnership with 3M, TerraCycle is accepting Scotch® Clear Tape Dispensers and Cores as a great way to keep them from winding up in landfills.
A small disclaimer here. I [...]
TerraCycle to take on Europe
September 18th, 2009
Posted by: envirothink
TerraCycle, well known for their organic Worm Poop fertilizer and drink brigades, has announced plans to expand into the United Kingdom and Europe.
“It is with great excitement that we´re announcing our expansion. Having grown rapidly in the U.S., we wanted to come to London and use the city as a launch pad to build our [...]
The Green Energy Machine
August 28th, 2009
Posted by: debraatlas
Americans are steadily growing trash.
The 2008 State of Garbage in America survey showed the United States produced over 413 million tons of municipal solid waste in 2006 (the latest figures available). Fifty five percent wound up in landfills, only 31 percent got recycled and 14 percent was converted to energy.
With more national attention on [...]
Categories: Green Products Tags: biomass, Emissions, energy, greenhouse gas emissions, hazardous waste, internet, landfills, Recycling, waste, zero emission