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| Understanding the Mattress Recycling Effort | | 2008-07-02 18:04:34 | | Where do old beds and mattresses end up? Well normally this would be the garbage dumpsites but then again that would just escalate the growing pain of our trash problems. But through the efforts and patience of concerned people in the world such as Tim Haggen, a researcher at the Natural Resources Research Institute (NRRI) [...] | | By: BEDzine - We are crazy about BEDs!!! | | |
| | More mattress recycling program spearheaded this summer… | | 2008-07-01 11:45:45 | | Following in Duluth’s Mattress Program, Hennepin County will also begin a similar with mattress recycling operation in the Twin Cities.
According to the MinnPost, the said program, when implemented efficiently and properly, results in the following based on Duluth’s numbers:
9 pounds of cotton in a mattress (average)
25 pounds of steel in a mattress (average)
1,500 mattresses a [...] | | By: Mattresszine | | |
| | Start a Cell Phone Recycling Business | | 2008-06-30 15:03:02 | | With an estimate of 130 million mobile phones in the retired every year, and only 1% of those who are recycled, the people began to use incentives and even laws to the people to recycle their mobile phones. For example, in California and in New York, mobile phone retailers are obliged to all the old [...] | | By: Cebu Entrepreneur | | |
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| Recycling JEDEC / Matrix Trays | | 2008-06-30 03:11:20 | | I work for a contract electronic Manufacturer and have just taken on the role of Environmental Officer and am looking to increase our recycling. However I have come up against a bit of a brick wall when it comes to recycling JEDEC / Matrix Trays. Does anyone know of a company in UK / Europe that d | | By: CR4: The Engineer's Place for Discussion & New | | |
| | Duluth’s Mattress recycling program | | 2008-06-25 11:03:37 | | The mattress recycling program being carried out in Duluth is doing quite well. It is the only program, one of two in the country, that takes apart the components of the mattress which should eventually be re-used as something else. It brings in money for the town, too.
The foam is sent to Wisconsin, where it [...] | | By: Mattresszine | | |
| | Recycling an old airbed | | 2008-06-18 15:31:22 | | What are the many ways you can do to recycle an old PVC airbed instead of throwing this in the dump (where it will take years to decompose itself!)?
I’m no expert but going around web communities, I found out that old airbeds no longer useful for sleeping can be turned into:
- a plant bed which [...] | | By: Mattresszine | | |
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| | Recycling is Great for Marketing Too | | 2008-06-10 21:36:00 | | It isn't just a good idea for the environment, recycling is great for marketing your business as well. Recycling ideas that is. Often content such as articles, snippets or topical advice can be reconstructed or updated as an easy way to build more content and, if online, gain valuable back links.Also if you spend a good deal of time on content such as blog posts, make sure you distribute subsets of the content on sites such as Twitter. You can also put snippets on your email signature. | | By: Out of the Fog Marketing Blog | | |
| | Sustainable Recycling Bin Project | | 2008-06-04 16:14:32 | | I am doing a final year project for my degree, and part of this is to design an object. The course is Innovation; designing for a sustainable future with the Open University. I already am a partner in a sucessful company WWW.WHOLEFOOD.NET and have decided to do a recycling bin as I could market thro | | By: CR4: The Engineer's Place for Discussion & New | | |
| | Nissan achieves Japan's automobile recycling targets | | 2008-05-31 07:29:00 | | Tokyo - Nissan Motor Co. Ltd., today shared the progress report on its recycling efforts for the fiscal year 2007 (April 2007 to March 2008). This is the second consecutive year that Nissan has exceeded its target recycling rates for end-of-life vehicles (ELVs) in accordance with the Japan Automobile Recycling Law.Nissan recovered 97,195.7 tons from the 134,935.7 (661,213 vehicles) tons of Automobile Shredder Residue (ASR). This represents a recovery ratio of 72.0%. The Japan Automobile Recycling law stipulates a target of 70% recycling rate by 2015.Nissan recovered 614,601 airbag-related products from 297,803 vehicles through recovery processing and on-board deployment operations. The airbag recycling ratio stood at 94.3%, exceeding the legal requirement of 85%.A total of 164,260kg of fluorocarbons collected from 534,655 vehicles were processed.The cost of these recycling efforts amounted to 5,956,720,099 yen. Recycling fees and income generated from the business of managing recycling | | By: Auto Blog India by Infibeam | | |
| | Recycling Rocks: In the battle between testosterone and estrogen, we all lose | | 2008-05-27 10:29:00 | | (Editor's note: Since I haven't seen a movie in what seems like two months, I present you with one of my favorite posts, an in-depth, serious look - ok, not really - at two silly movies. Enjoy. As for me, the plan is to see Indy IV tonight. Expect tears of disappointment later this week.)I'd like to take you back in time to a simpler era. A time when the thought of the impending new millennium caused mass hysteria and forced many a cubicle worker to re-code bank software from 2-character years to 4-character years. A time when America had a President that could pronounce the word "nuclear" correctly. A time when Ben Affleck was considered a matinee idol - an A-lister, if you will.The time was 1998 - specifically summer of that year. The first strike was made by estrogen. On May 8th, Deep Impact was released into theaters. The plot? A comet is headed for earth and will be here in a matter of weeks. How will the people of earth prepare? Will Tea Leoni rise to the position of network anch | | By: Blog Cabins | | |
| | Recycling Tires | | 2008-05-13 09:16:12 | | I recently bought some land and I have some cleanup to do. Some of that cleanup is mountains of tires. Does anybody know of a place that will pick the tires up or that I can deliver them for free in Texas. Any help would be appreciated. | | By: CR4: The Engineer's Place for Discussion & New | | |
| | Mayor Wants Mandatory Recycling in SF! | | 2008-05-09 11:11:01 | | Here’s Mayor Newsom proposing more efficient recycling in San Francisco. I think this is a smart move and Newsom is going a good “green” job. I just don’t agree with his Parking Meter policies.
So Mr. Newsom will soon be sending the city’s Board of Supervisors a proposal that would make the recycling of cans, bottles, [...] | | By: SF Blogg | | |
| | The Stackable Recycling Bins | | 2008-05-04 13:08:52 | | You have made the decision to do your part for the environment and you are going to recycle. Maybe you have a pick-up service or you are willing to drive to each recycling location in order to drop off your recyclables. Because it is required for every thing to be separated, you will need to decide on the number of bins you need. Many areas have recycling for newspapers, cans, plastic, and glass. Depending on your area they may only provide a pick-up service for two or three, maybe all four.Now that you know the number of bins you will need, you will need to consider a good location for those bins. You may want to put them close to your trash bin. This will save you time and steps, and make it easier for you to put things in the recycle bin rather than your trash can. It you live in an apartment or a small house, you may have trouble finding the room to place three separate bins close to your garbage can. There are several different solutions to this problem. You can find the stackable | | By: Global Warming Articles - Information on Global Wa | | |
| | | | Custom designed bottles for recycling | | 2008-04-21 22:04:00 | | It has never been a secret that hawkers recycle used mineral water bottles, fill it with tap water (ok, a believed to be fit for drinking water, with no visible impurities) and sell it back to thirty passengers who neither have patience to check the purity of the water, nor have an alternate option to quench their thirst. What surprised me, that some manufacturers of mineral water bottles, knowingly or unknowingly are directly assisting this “sell new water in old bottle” lobby, due a faulty design of bottle caps. Ideally, a cap of a sealed mineral water bottle will have two parts- the main cap and a circular ring which is factory sealed with the main cap. (I don’t know exact technical term-assume description given gives an idea what I am referring to) When you buy a new original mineral water bottle and twist open its cap, the seal breaks, the cap comes out and circular ring remains in the bottle neck. Since ordinary hawker can’t reseal the bottle easily (without necessary e | | By: eNidhi - A professional amateur | | |
| | | Recycling Plastic | | 2008-04-09 11:19:17 | | A large number of plastic containers and bags are used on a daily basis. Plastic waste is one of the biggest causes for increased water and soil pollution. Plastic recycling offers one of the best solutions to the increased plastic waste in the environment. Plastic recycling is the process of breaking down used scrap and waste plastics to recover usable material for the manufacturing industry. Plastic comprises of a large number of resins and complex chemical structures that are melted down to create new fibers.Plastic recycling is a complex procedure. Plastic recycling industries can face a large number of unique challenges. One of the key principles to be followed while recycling plastic is that different types of plastics cannot be mixed before recycling. Plastics of different polymer structures and resin composition are identified by using standard codes on the basis of their melting and crushing capacity. Plastic materials identified under a particular code can be mixed and recycl | | By: Global Warming Articles - Information on Global Wa | | |
| | | metal recycling | | 2008-04-08 20:15:22 | | Need a quick answer to...
What is the reasonable beginning &or end recycle "value" (referring in particular to platinum, palladium) of a typical passenger automobile catalytic converter in $$US? Seems a lot of people are springing up these days asking to remove distressed cars (or their p | | By: CR4: The Engineer's Place for Discussion & New | | |
| | Recycling used lubricant system | | 2008-04-01 03:31:40 | | Dear Sirs,
Hello all friends and advisers on CR4 and GlobalSpec. I am needing Recycling system for used lubricant (e.g. hydraulic oil, engine oil...). Now, we have many kind of used lubricant, but we do not have recycling technology. Please help me.
Thanks & Best regards,
Phung Th | | By: CR4: The Engineer's Place for Discussion & New | | |
| | 5 Hot Recycling Tips for E-waste | | 2008-03-30 09:55:00 | | E-WASTE: GREAT SOLUTIONS!It makes me furious that electronics become obsolete so quickly. Besides the obvious downside of having to shell out more money for a new item because the old one is a dinosaur, it creates the bigger challenge of disposal. What to do with all this stuff? Well here are some great solutions I have found that will really help to keep these items out of the landfill.This just may be a List you want to keep handy for future reference! 1. Costco's Trade-In & Recycle ProgramCostco has paired with GreenSight to give it's members this option for recycling electronics. You provide the site with the details about your equipment. It gives you a trade in-value. If you accept the value, you proceed. Then they give you a free, prepaid shipping label to send the equipment to them. You get a Costco Cash card for the trade in-value. GreenSight salvages any parts that can be used and then works with others to dispose of the remains without using a landfill.2. Green PhoneGreen | | By: Just a List | | |
| | Recycling Dell Laptop Batteries | | 2008-03-26 16:09:00 | | By James Kara Murat Recycling is one of the biggest and highly important advocacies of today. It is logical, simple and very easy to do. Numerous environmentalists all over the world are encouraging people to save the planet by not carelessly throwing their batteries away, especially the rechargeable ones, and instead make new things (beautiful and even useful things!) out of them. Recyclable batteries may be found in, among others, cordless power tools, cellular and cordless telephones, video camcorders, digital cameras and remote control toys and yes, in laptop computers as well!If you own a Dell laptop or notebook computer, you ought to know that you can always recycle your unit�s batteries. Hence, if you think that your batteries have started to act up, don�t throw them right away just yet!One thing you can do is to contact Dell directly and ask if they can replace your battery for a new one either for free or for a nominal fee. Dell has what they call a �Battery Program� a | | By: Laptop Review and Price | | |
| | RECYCLING PLASTIC MATERIALS | | 2008-03-24 08:32:00 | | Recycling has always been a big issue across the world. It is so simple to recycle but many of us just don't know how to go about doing it.I know here in my town we have black bins for normal rubbish, green for your garden stuff & a smaller green box for your newspapers etc, so that's always helpful.There are so many items that are possible to recycle i get lost in it all!Like HDPE (High Density Poly Ethylene) which is a form of recyclable plastic. This is typically used for grocery snack packaging, detergents & carrier bags to name a few.If your interested in purchasing this type of material, there is a company that deals with the distribution and sourcing for this. You can fill out a form online and get an idea of prices too Scrap HDPE | | By: Mummy Diaries | | |
| | Recycling Rocks: Seven People to Avoid at the Movie Theater | | 2008-03-19 13:27:00 | | Editor's note: For a number of reasons (dead movie season, pretty caught up on reviews, other post ideas are currently dead ends, spent the last two days writing "Sirens" posts for the LAMB, my work with the poor and needy takes up all my time, etc.), it's time to grace you all with another greatest hit (or something like that) from long ago before you were a reader here. Don't you wish you'd been here from the start - to see me go from a blogging toddler to the punky (Brewster) blogging teenager I am today? No? Well tough.Aside from giving movie reviews and opining on the random topic of the day, I'm here to provide a service to you the reader. As a rampant moviegoer, I must (obviously) enjoy the experience of going to the movies. That said, there are people (or groups of people) that serve as potential minefields to your experience. They are there to irritate you, frustrate you, pester you - whatever it takes to show you that they are passively-aggressively more important than you. S | | By: Blog Cabins | | |
| | DR3, a new mattress recycling unit | | 2008-03-17 11:20:17 | | DR3, one of the very few mattress recycling unit in the United States, is a name derived from organizations slogan — “Divert Reduce Reuse Recycle.”.
The mattress recycling unit has facilities that would help keep landfills filled with old mattresses, as well as provide jobs for people, under the support of St. Vincent de Paul.
DR3 recycles [...] | | By: Mattresszine | | |
| | Complete Assembly Used Engines at Midwest Auto Recycling | | 2008-03-13 13:52:21 | | Are you looking for a complete assembled used engine or used transmission for your car? Well, there is one company named Midwest Auto Recycling that specializes in the above located in Cudahy, Wisconsin. Perhaps you are in the area & want to stop by the place to take a look. A map to the midwest auto recycling can be found on the MerchantCircle website. I have included a link to the page although you have to scroll down to the company name in the list of companies. Miles are CARFAX (a company that provides vehicle history report) verified so you know there’s no tricking you & the engine of your choice come as a complete assembly. | | By: internet executive log | | |
| | | Waste, Recycling, and Space: Where Are Our Recycling Robots? | | 2008-03-02 11:40:00 | | What is the world's ugliest building? Esquire says it's the Ryugyong Hotel in North Korea. The interesting thing about the hotel is that it's only ugly because it's not finished, but if you finished it and get it a nice color and flashy lights it could very well be the coolest hotel outside of Las Vegas. It looks like a spaceship, or a spired pyramid of sorts. If you spruced it up it would look awesome. Heck, you could even go as far as to make it a space-themed hotel! So what's the problem with the hotel other than it's ugly? Well, apparently it's unfinished and it will never be finished. That means that North Korea has poured millions of dollars into this thing only to quit a good portion of the way through for whatever reason. Rumors are it's because there is some structural problems, but I don't buy that. My guess is that they simply ran out of money, or stopped funding it, or some such. It seems too idiotic to build something so massive only to get | | By: The World in the Satin Bag | | |
| | Economics of Plastics Recycling | | 2008-03-02 06:50:00 | | You know the environmental concerns about producing more bottled water for consumers. But a Scienceline report asks whether it makes more economic sense to make a new plastic bottle or recycle a used one. The simple math equation accounts for rising crude oil prices, increasing PET demand, and costl | | By: CR4: The Engineer's Place for Discussion & New | | |
| | | Recycling Rocks! (Movies that Roll) | | 2008-02-05 15:35:00 | | I could watch Seinfeld reruns probably until the end of time. Somehow, the exploits of Jerry, Kramer, George and Elaine just don't get old. Likewise, the writing featured here on Blog Cabins ages like a fine wine, somehow getting better with time. At the same time, I'm swamped at work and short on reviews - so, in the spirit of television syndication, I present to you a repackaged BC post that I'm sure you won't remember, either because you weren't yet a reader here, or because you just have a bad memory. Here is "Fletch's Favored Five: Movies That Roll" (originally posted 4/13/07) in its original form:It's high time to unveil a new feature here in the Blog Cabins. While Top 10 lists are highly cliched and terribly unoriginal, "Favored Five" are wildly clever and wholly unique. Therefore, I shall periodically choose a topic of my liking and tell you which are the top, er, favored films that fit into said topic. (If you like, you can suggest a topic for me to cover by emailing me.)Today | | By: Blog Cabins | | |
| | | | Greywater Recycling | | 2007-10-15 11:50:13 | | The number one global concern is not global warming, as many think. It is actually the shrinking resource called clean water. Think about it, which would you choose to live one week without, if you had to choose one: petroleum, food, or water? Nobody can choose water because you cannot live without water for one week. So why is everyone concerned so much with recycling aluminum and paper? Pfft! Let's all try to preserve our diminishing water resources.I wish to share with you the following for your reading pleasure:Greywater IrrigationWikipedia's Greywater articleAnswers.com's Graywater articleSimply put, water CAN be used more than once.If you like this blog, please tell your friends!
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| | Ecology Action Center continues to push recycling | | 2007-07-31 00:48:00 | | The Ecology Action Center, which monitors recycling for McLean County, Bloomington and Normal governments, estimates that 33 percent of materials that could be thrown away is diverted from the trash through recycling, reuse and composting. That's 76,000 tons of stuff that didn't hit the landfill in 2006 alone.
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| | | | Monday, January 29th, 2007: Recycling: Sweden vs England | | 2007-01-29 19:08:00 | | What I think:In December '05, I wrote a bit about recycling in Sweden. Now, after a recent visit to London, where I did some extensive research, I'd like to illustrate the differences in attitude between Sweden and England with regards to this most important topic.In Sweden:Most buildings have a sort of shed which houses large bins into which you dump your different recyclable materials. Above each of these bins is a helpful sign indicating what should go where.The photos that follow show the bins in my building's rubbish (US/CAN: garbage) shed.First up, we have the cardboard and printed paper bins: Papper is Swedish for paper, but in this context, it's mainly meant as packing material, which includes cardboard. This is where you put your empty cardboard beer crates that you bought on the ferry, your IKEA furniture boxes, and if you're really an eco-warrior, your empty Marlboro packs.Tidningar is the Swedish word covering both newspapers and magazines. But this bin applies for any | | By: Mark Base - Helsingblog | | |
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