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Today, being Green is a necessity. It’s not just for hippies and tree huggers any more. Actually being a tree hugger is a good thing, but that’s another article. We are in a time that if we continue our bad habits, the children of our not too distant future will not have one.
The 20th Century [...]
Posted by admin on Monday, January 11, 2010 at 8:22 am
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There is no denying that you only have one true home. It is not your house, apartment, condo or shack. It is this Earth and it is more valuable to you than you will ever realize. It provides you with food, air and shelter.
Would you really not do your part to keep your home [...]
Posted by admin on Friday, January 8, 2010 at 9:34 am
Filed under Recycling · Tagged About, Apartment Condo, Burning Of Fossil Fuels, Compost Heap, Disposable Diapers, Environmental Protection Agency, Food Air, Food Scraps, Great Grandchildren, Hazardous Waste, Hybrid Vehicles, Learn, Organic Materials, Overflowing Landfills, Pamphlets, Plastic Water Bottles, Recyclable Materials, Recyclables, Recycling, Should, Styrofoam Containers, Television Ads, Toxic Byproducts, Trimmings
Global warming is a very real threat to the preservation of our planet and recycling is one of many ways that people can cut down the amount of carbon dioxide that is released into our atmosphere.
Not only is recycling environmentally friendly, it is also cost effective since it reduces the amount of waste for disposal, [...]
Posted by admin on Thursday, December 17, 2009 at 8:23 am
Filed under Recycling · Tagged Aluminium Cans, Carbon Dioxide, Cartons, Clean Planet, Compost Heap, Digging A Hole, Disposable Diapers, Environment, Food Scraps, Future Lives, Glass Bottles, Global Warming, Global Waste, Hazardous Waste, Help, Landfill, Landfills, Organic Waste, Plastic Bottles, Recycling, Recycling Cans, Styrofoam Containers, Trimmings
Plastics production also involves the use of potentially harmful chemicals, which are added as stabilisers or colorants. Many of these have not undergone environmental risk assessment and their impact on human health and the environment is currently uncertain. Plastics have a low entropy of mixing, which is due to the high molecular weight of their [...]
Posted by admin on Thursday, December 3, 2009 at 8:23 pm
Filed under Recycling · Tagged Entropy, Environmental Risk Assessment, Food Scraps, Harmful Chemicals, Human Health, Macromolecule, Manufacturing Process, Molecular Weight, Organic Molecule, Polymer Chains, Recyclable Materials, Recycle, Recycle Plastics, Recycling Aluminum Cans, Recycling Of Cans, Source Reduction, Stabilisers, Time And Money, Virgin Materials, Waste, Waste Plastics, Wasteful Activity
Recently, I was invited to a party. The hosts were lovely, the home was large and beautiful in a well-to-do area. Everything about the day was fantastic, except for one thing…they didn’t recycle.
I noticed glass bottles in the trash, I thought maybe some partygoer made a mistake. Then I noticed another and another, no mistake.
Does [...]
Posted by admin on Wednesday, December 2, 2009 at 8:23 am
Filed under Recycling · Tagged Blatant Disregard, Cans, Chemicals, Destroyers, Donât, Food Scraps, Footprint, Glass Bottles, Ground Water Supply, Hosts, Landfill Space, Landfills, Leaching, Leaders Of The World, Methane Gas, Mistake, Municipality, Ozone, Recycle, Recycling Products, Soils, They, Virgin Materials
Ski resorts world-wide have been actively participating in recycling and composting projects since as early as 2001.
Most resorts are now using 100 percent recyclable materials throughout day-to-day operations. Resort restaurants are using environment friendly utensils and carry-out containers and composting food scraps with wood shavings to use in landscaping throughout the resort.
Some resorts are [...]
Posted by admin on Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 8:58 am
Filed under Environment · Tagged 2009, Candler, Dollar Donation, Environment, Food Scraps, Free Time, Friendly, Helping The Environment, Inventor, Landfill, Recyclable Materials, Recycling Equipment, Resort Restaurants, Season, Season Ski, Ski Resorts, Ski Season, Ski Shops, Ski Snowboard, Skiers, Snowboard Equipment, Snowboards, Utensils, Wood Shavings