December 17, 2010
Metals are perhaps the most energy-efficient materials we can reuse over and over again. Recycling aluminum saves 95% of the energy used to make the material from scratch. Recycling steel and tin cans saves 74% of the energy used to produce them. Recycling one aluminum can save enough energy to run a 100-watt bulb for [...]
December 17, 2010
Recycling is not just an activity for large corporations — recycling can start in your own home. Making sure that you don’t throw away recyclable products, such as newspapers, sales circulars, cans and plastic shopping bags you can help increase the amount of materials diverted from our waste stream. Recycling saves energy by reusing resources [...]
December 17, 2010
The glass containing your soda today might be the glass holding your spaghetti sauce tomorrow. That’s because glass, especially glass food and beverage containers, can be recycled over and over again. In fact, 90% of recycled glass is used to make new containers. Other uses for recycled glass include kitchen tiles, countertops and wall insulation. [...]
December 17, 2010
The vehicle that you are driving today will be a source of numerous recyclable materials tomorrow. Vehicle parts offer recycling opportunities for materials such as steel, aluminum, plastics, antifreeze and batteries, as well as whole parts such as tires, seats, engines and alternators. Each year, nearly all of the 27 million cars around the world [...]
November 11, 2010
Recyclers recover more than 100 million pounds of reusable materials from electronics each year. Recycling electronics helps reduce pollution that would be generated while manufacturing a new product and the need to extract valuable and limited virgin resources. It also reduces the energy used in new product manufacturing. If you combine consumer and non-consumer computer [...]
October 26, 2010
Staples accepts a wide array of electronics for recycling at all of our store locations nationally, with many items recycled free of charge. We’ll even reward you for recycling your ink and toner cartridges! We make it easy for our customers to recycle by offering a variety of services, including options for recycling computers and [...]
October 14, 2010
Plastic recycling is the process of recovering scrap or waste plastics and reprocessing the material into useful products, sometimes completely different in form from their original state. For instance, this could mean melting down soft drink bottles and then casting them as plastic chairs and tables. Plastics are not typically recycled into the same type [...]
October 14, 2010
September 28, 2010
William McDonough is a world-renowned architect and designer and winner of three U.S. presidential awards: the Presidential Award for Sustainable Development (1996), the National Design Award (2004) and the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award (2003). Time magazine recognized him as a “Hero for the Planet” in 1999, stating, “his utopianism is grounded in a unified [...]
September 28, 2010
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August 27, 2010
Rachel Carson was an American marine biologist and nature writer whose writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement. Carson started her career as a biologist in the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, and became a full-time nature writer in the 1950s. Her widely praised 1951 bestseller, The Sea Around Us, won her financial security [...]
August 27, 2010
Joshua Farley is a renowned ecological economist working to integrate social, human and natural capital into the way the world views economics. He is a Fellow of the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics and a Professor in the Community Development and Applied Economics faculty at the University of Vermont. With economist Herman Daly, Farley co-authored [...]