Recycling
Earth Day 1970 suggested to millions of Americans that environmental concern could be expressed locally. Through organized activities, many citizens found that they could actively improve th...
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Recycling
The chemistry of recycling involves the treatment of commercial products to remove and isolate components for reuse in other products. The materials most commonly recycled are paper products...
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Recycling
Recycling is a way to conserve natural resources by salvaging metals, paper, plastic, glass, and other materials used in packaging and industry, and turning them into new and usable products...
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Battery Recycling
The United States consumes over $10.4 billion in batteries annually, powering everything from children's toys to hearing aids. Because batteries contain certain toxic substa...
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National Recycling Coalition
Founded in 1978, the National Recycling Coalition (NRC) is a non-profit organization comprised of concerned individuals and environmental, labor, and business organizati...
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Precycling
Precycling is source reduction and reuse. In most waste management planning the hierarchy is Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. Reduction and reuse are the first lines of defense against increasin...
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Recyclables
Recyclables are products or materials that can be separated from the waste stream and used again in place of raw materials. Since colonial times, Americans have recycled a host of materi...
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Recycling
Recycling waste is not a new idea. Throughout history, people have disposed garbage in myriad ways. They fed household garbage to domestic animals. Scavengers gleaned the waste stream for ...
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Resource Recovery
Resource recovery is the process of recovering materials or energy from solid waste for reuse. The aim is to make the best use of the economic, environmental, and social costs of t...
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Recycling
Recycling is any process that involves the recovery and reuse of materials that were once considered trash. Recycling can be as simple as reusing something—such as a coat or computer&...
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“They live in the closet like ghosts of simpler times. Dead monitors. Obsolete PCs. Fried printers. A lot of junk has collected after 20 years of the PC.” —P.J. Huffstutter, technolo...
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In 1994, researchers discovered unusually high rates of lupus and multiple myeloma (a bone marrow cancer) among Arizona residents in Tucson and Nogales. These researchers theorized that the high rates...
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Recycling Should Improve
How many times do your parents ask you to take out the trash? Probably more than we care to remember. Well, one day you will become a mom or dad and ask your kids to do the ...
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Recycling Should Improve
How many times do your parents ask you to take out the trash? Probably more than we care to remember. Well, one day you will become a mom or dad and ask your kids to do th...
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In the world today, a profusion of recyclable materials are beings dumped into landfills and burned in incinerators. In spite of the growing uses for these materials, trash disposal remains the ...
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