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How to Recycle Everything
Posted by LIME Team on May 30, 2007 - 3:39pm.
There’s more to recycling than melting down plastic soda bottles to make new plastic soda bottles. These days you can turn medicine bottles into life jackets and old running shoes into new playground surfacing. How's that for reincarnation?
There’s a better option than the trash, and we’ve found it. Discover how to recycle everything from packing peanuts to your wedding dress by scrolling through our guide to giving eyeglasses, paint, light bulbs, and even your toothbrush a new life.
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That's would be a good addition.. nice one..
Good point. I try to buy products made from recycled products whenever possible, especially when going to the supermarket. Using your own shopping bags rather than the plastic ones available in store is also important.
Some good guides in there for recycling. I'd never had thought of being able to recycle the brushes on my toothbrush!
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Stephie you are spot on. It would be great if there was a relaible buying guide for everyday purchases that are either fully recycled or partly so.
Stephie you are spot on. It would be great if there was a relaible buying guide for everyday purchases that are either fully recycled or partly so.
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That is 110% True ....
Wow,That sounds great.Remember every electronic item is a product of Ewaste and it is turned again into Ewaste after usage.
Recyclying has been a very useful concept and it help a lot in technology enhancements. Health Articles
So, instead of simply throwing your Christmas tree out for the garbage, do something to help the environment! You can get your tree shredded, which makes excellent mulch or even take it to a tree recycling drop-off center in your neighborhood
I like the idea of Recycling :) Thanks for article
Tom Green
Has anyone had any experience getting OFF the distribution lists for phone books?
I always recycle them, but these days, who needs them to begin with?
Chris
It has been a long time that recycling has been introduced to the world and the use of recycling and it is sad to hear that 90 % of world is unaware of it.
Thank you.
Organic ClothingHey, Callen! These may be recycled in most fairly large communities. I've noted that if one lives in a separate suburb of a large city, or even in the zip code for such a suburb, one will receive, certainly unsolicited, many such smaller books for that suburb as well as several for the larger metro, and, your phone company's "authentic" one as well....
You're absolutely right that, with the web and mobile phones, we no longer need phone books except for those who seriously are tech-challenged and many elderly.
As for your question, I imagine, however, that the associated companies don't want the expense of managing who wants a phone book at a particular address (people often move), and then having predictable problems with minimum wage workers doing intelligent selective delivery: So they "blizzard"every residence with their particular spin on the phone book. (I've noted that Feist (Yellowbook)--yeah, a major offender here--also has Yellowbook available gratis at grocery stores here: That's a better solution than "blizzard" delivery....)
A closely related issue: Stupid unaddressed flyers in my mail: I tell people this sick joke: "Neither Moses, Jesus, nor Mohammed can stop those from coming!" I think most here would agree: Flyers, phonebooks, and most paper products are stupid remnant activities from our old traditional industrial economy that's dying so painfully now. Unfortunately, PCs have made producing and printing such items really easy, as well. (Maybe inevitable results from such irresponsible activities as deforestation and pollution will kill us first, however!)
Mom refrains again and again with this: Our postal service should charge such bulk mailers the same first class mail rates as we have to pay--our rates that keep increasing to subsidize bulk mailers who like to kill trees)--isn't raising their rates a very good and obvious, if stupidly belated, first step?
Politicians will attempt to trudge onward with tired First Amendment arguments and other arguments that such activities support business: Hey, that actually may induce their someone from that amoral community to hire someone--they're always correct, and, that's absolutely certain, riiiight?!
I have a dvd player that has gone kaput on me and I need to know how to recycle it because it's pretty much just a pile of plastic and circuit boards...any suggestions??
Any help is greatly appreciated!!
T
OK. City has a federally-subsidized recycling facility that's usually open during the day, and, one may drop-off such items as this and old/broken PCs, and PC parts by showing a current utility bill stub, . Also, we have an "event" for such items about every three months. OK. City currently won't allow analog (traditonal "square" aspect CRT screen) TV recycling, however. (Waste Management company will recycle such TVs for 50 cents a pound--otherwise, OK. City says to leave such a TV at the curb for bulk pickup. This is something that I dislike about our society--too often, we are unwilling to face reality concerning such issues: We have to face this problem--it's on us now!)
I'm curious if certain major cities' recycling entities such as in LA, Denver, Chicago, Houston, and, NY do take old TVs yet. I think recycling and legal hazardous waste disposal should be federally run and owned, available 24 hours a day, and facilities should accept all relevant products without question or proof of residency....
Check out www.earthpro.com/electronics.htm they have a listng or many states electronic recovery programs.
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Thanks for usefull links, can you give a couple more?
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In 2000 nearly £30 million was thrown away in the form of empty aluminium cans. Used aluminium cans are valuable as they can be recycled time and time again without loss of quality. We can make quality aluminium for vehicles let's say truck parts like truck exhaust, for bicycle and motors, etc., Up to 95% of the energy needed to produce new aluminium ore is saved by recycling. There are a number of methods for recycling your cans:
* Kerbside recycling box
* Public can banks
* Local charities
* Local metal merchants
I do believe that Circuit City will recycle electronics for you.
Happy Recycling!
When lamps are sent to landfills, or especially when incineration is used as an alternative disposal method, mercury vapors are released that can travel over 200 miles! It is highly toxic to the human nervous system and particularly poisonous to the kidneys. Once absorbed by the body, mercury is distributed by the blood to all tissues of the human body, and it easily crosses the placental barrier; prenatal exposure can lead to a variety of health problems including a severe form of cerebral palsy.
Check this out!
http://www.lamprecycling.com
I heard the other day that when you recycle a plastic bottle with the lid screwed on they throw the whole bottle away! True ? I hope not
I can say that it is true in New York...not sure about the rest of the country...
Recycling, waste removal etc. is heavily "policed" here in NYC, the department of sanition regularly cruises through the neighborhoods writing some pricey tickets....my residents of my building just got a notice about making sure we removed the caps from bottles....
Not sure if they are automatically thrown away....but I also don't want to pay the ticket if I get one for not doing something as simple as removing a cap from a bottle.
So, instead of simply throwing your Christmas tree out for the garbage, do something to help the environment! You can get your tree shredded, which makes excellent mulch or even take it to a tree recycling drop-off center in your neighborhood. It's simple things like this that will make a big difference if everyone chips in. Find out more information here:
http://earth911.org/search-recycle?what=Christmas+Tree
After the holidays, don’t throw your natural tree away! Here are some tips on what to do with your tree after the holidays. In general, you have these options:
Normal 0 7.8 磅 0 2 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer41. Curbside pick-up for recycling - Most areas will collect trees during their regular pickup schedules on the 2 weeks following Christmas. There are often requirements for size, removing ornaments, flocking, etc;
2. Call for an appointment to have a non-profit in your area pickup your tree. Some boy scout troops are offering a pickup service for a small donation (often $5).
3. Take your tree to a drop off recycling center.
I think if we can get everyone doing just one thing a day to do their part and could sustain that for 3 months, that the report would motivate everyone to do a lot more. there would be monumental results from the first 90 days alone.
I am currently in the process of trying to get off of the grid and my Water Damage Restoration Restoration company has also gone green. We no longer use unfriendly methods to do our job when alternatives are readily avaliable.
If everyone just played a small part, we could save the earth for generations to come.
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Just stumbled onto this site and like all of the information, especially because it pertains to the environment and discusses ways we can do our part to save what's left of the planet.
With that said, I wonder if there is a vegetarian or vegan section in here somewhere. After all, experts do agree that adopting a plant-based diet or even cutting down on meat consumption is the best way to help out the environment. For those who think that not eating animal products WON'T help the planet, just look it up on the net. :D
In 2000 nearly £30 million was thrown away in the form of empty aluminium cans.
In China, the plastic bag can't be used. More popular products are recycle paper bags, recycle gift boxes, recycle paper Photo Albums recycle books. http://www.nbphotoalbum.com/
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GreenTextbooks.org specializes in the recycling of textbooks, DVDs, CDs. Buying used textbooks not only saves you money, but cuts down on greenhouse gases caused by the manufacturing of new textbooks.
With GreenTextbooks.org you're not only saving trees, you are saving some green. http://www.greentextbooks.org
Kind of difficult to create awareness. People are so contented with their living, and asking them to change their lifestyle by contributing to Reduce, Reuse & Recycle is just too challenging.
I've started to recycle since years ago, but those who sees me re-using my toothbrush to clean the sink - they think I must be nuts! Hahaha!
Just play a part and save the earth.
I dont drink can drinks, this contribute to no waste and also... better health... CHEERS!
Candy Wong
As well as recycling, it is important to buy products made from recycled material. This will increase the demand for recycled products as well as create a good recycling loop.
Last week I read an article in The Sunday Times by James Lovelock, the Earth guru, titled "The fight to get aboard Lifeboat UK". The piece was about the Earth now being so populous, with nearly seven billion people inhabiting it, that all attempts to arrest climate change would be counter-productive and that we should prepare ourselves for Armageddon itself instead of trying to "fix it".
He says: "If you add on the fossil fuel burnt in the total activity of growing, gathering, selling and serving food, all this adds up to about half of all carbon dioxide emissions. Think of farm machinery, the transport of food from the farms and the transport of fertiliser, pesticides and the fuel used in their manufacture; the road building and maintenance; the supermarket operations and the packaging industry; to say nothing of the energy used in cooking, refrigerating and serving food. Like it or not, we are the problem."
Recycling we must do, but the excerpts from his book are truly worrying.
I think if we can get everyone doing just one thing a day to do their part and could sustain that for 3 months, that the report would motivate everyone to do a lot more. there would be monumental results from the first 90 days alone.
If everyone just played a small part, we could save the earth for generations to come.
This is good to know about turning medicine bottles into life jackets and old running shoes into new playground surfacing.
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