The State of Carpet Recycling
From being quite a luxury just a few decades ago, wall to wall carpet is found in nearly every home in North America. However, have you ever considered what happens when you get rid of it. Think about how much the carpet from just a single room weighs or how much space it [...]
Plastic Bags Are An Environmental Disaster
Plastic bags make recycling difficult and cause a massive amount of litter. To be blunt plastic bags are an environmental disaster.
For starters, the 100 billion or so plastic bags that were consumed in North America in 2006 alone required the equivalent of 12 million barrels of oil to produce. Most of these are eventually [...]
Do They Recycle On The Farm?
You might be surprised to learn how much farms resemble a materials hauler rather than the home of Old MacDonald that many still imagine. While organic farms are able to compost much of what they use, since a large portion of it will be generated on-farm, the vast majority of acreage in North America [...]
Complimenting Recycling With Reusing
Recycling isn’t the most environmentally friendly game in town, but it’s a good start. If you really want to make your contribution to the environment go a lot further, you can simply get in the habit of reusing items instead of throwing them in the bins after a single use.
There are many ways to [...]
The Future of Recycling
What kind of improvements will there be in future recycling technology? Will recycling change as we know it or simply continue as it is? These are questions that beg an answer and we will attempt to give you that answer here.
In the foreseeable future we see recycling staying in a flat line. That is simply [...]
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