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  • Texas Cities Trail for Recycling Participation

    July 30th, 2008


    The New York Times has released the results of a new study into recycling rates of major American cities, and the Texas cities of Houston and San Antonio were the only ones mentioned that had below 10 percent of waste being recycled.

    The study claims that the national average is 32 percent, while Houston is at 2.6 percent and San continue …


  • High Steel Prices Inspire Texans to Recycle Their Junk

    July 30th, 2008


    Citizens in central Texas are recycling more steel junk than ever, reports The Temple Daily Telegraph.

    The motivation is not only environmental, but economical. Farmers are receiving big bucks for old farming equipment.

    Business is exploding for Billy Bachmayer, the owner of a 20-acre recycling facility. The 50 employees at Temple Iron and Metal Co. are working overtime just to keep up. The operation continue …


  • Seattle City Council Passes 20 Cent Plastic Bag Fee Law

    July 29th, 2008


    It’s official: the much-debated Seattle based law imposing a 20-cent fee per plastic bag in certain stores was passed Monday by the Seattle City Council, reports the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

    The law will go into effect in January, and applies to all grocery, drug and convenience stores. The city will soon launch a campaign encouraging the use of cloth bags.

    “No one has to pay continue …


  • More And More States Practice Shingle-cycling

    July 29th, 2008


    An increasing number of companies throughout the U.S. are profiting from shingle recycling, reports The Grand Rapids Press.

    At least half the states in the U.S. have shingle-cycling companies. Shingles are made of asphalt and aggregate, and can be reused in making roads and parking lots.

    Reusing saves petroleum. An average house of 2,000 square feet with two layers of roofing will have about five tons continue …


  • Maryland State Highway Administration Adds Interesting Compost Ingredient

    July 29th, 2008


    When considering good things to compost, the last thing most people think of is a deer carcass.

    But that’s exactly what’s happening along the highway in New Market, Maryland, reports The Examiner.

    Rather than just removing the deer carcasses and burying them, the State Highway Administration turns the carcasses into compost. The compost is used to help grow roadside grass and wild flowers.

    The process is environmentally continue …


  • Texas Company to Recycle Oil Site Water

    July 28th, 2008


    Each year, nearly six billion barrels of contaminated water are thrown out after use at Texas drilling sites. It’s some of the harshest contaminated water in the world, reports CBS.

    It is normally disposed of in deep injection wells because no other use is appropriate. However, STW Resources, a water reclamation company based in Midland, has developed technology to make this water safe continue …


  • Kraft Foods To Recycle Packaging

    July 28th, 2008


    Kraft Foods has partnered with TerraCycle in an effort to decrease the amount of packaging waste ending up in the landfill, reports Industry Week.

    Kraft will become the first major multi-category corporation to fund the collection of used packaging associated with its products.

    TerraCycle is a company that takes difficult-to-recycle packages and materials and turns them into new, eco-friendly products. For example: continue …


  • Racing to Recycle at the Michigan International Speedway

    July 28th, 2008


    The Michigan International Speedway (MIS) draws quite a crowd and creates quite a trash load.

    MIS recently teamed up with Coca-Cola Co. to begin a new year-round recycling program, according to Nascar. Bins were placed throughout the speedway’s 1,400 acre property to make recycling convenient. The first major event, the Sprint Cup Series LifeLock 400 in June, resulted in 15.3 tons continue …


  • NCR Two-Sided Printer Helps Grocery Store Win Green IT Award

    July 25th, 2008


    NCR, the company that invented the point-of-sale printed receipt, has now thought of a way to save both paper and energy: printing on both sides of the receipt. Its new printer, the NCR RealPOS 7168, can produce a two-sided receipt at the point of sale. By using these simultaneous two-sided thermal receipt printers in its stores, UK continue …


  • New Reuse Site Offers Financial Rewards to Members

    July 25th, 2008


    By combining features of Craigslist, eBay and Freecycle, the new Free’N Exchange program is providing reuse options for thousands of members to keep items out of landfills.

    The program is part of Greenopolis, a new site developed by Waste Management. Here’s how the program works:

    Both posting items and posting requests for items can earn members points
    Points are used to acquire continue …