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A new mail-in programme by Metech International allows consumers to easily recycle old mobile phones for just the cost of postage, reducing waste and keeping environmentally harmful materials such as heavy metals from entering landfills. “ Now, just for the price of postage, every consumer can recycle their old phones, …

Japanese Japan’s Fuji Xerox Co. has developed a new digital copy machine model, the “DocuCentre 507-MD,” and a digital complex machine equipped with scanning and printing functions, the “DocuCentre 507 CP-MD,” which will have much less environmental impact than conventional models because they are made of 70 per cent recycled …

It is generally agreed that there are two main sources of national data on how solid waste is managed in the United States. The first is BioCycle’s “State of Garbage in America” survey, started in 1989 and done annually since then, with the exception of 2002. The other is an …

After many years of compost marketing and market development, we have come to recognize a number of “truisms.” A leading one is that although compost is a great product and created from a “recycled” feedstock – and therefore is considered an environmentally “correct” product – most people who purchase compost …

In mid-December, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced publication of a proposed rule to implement the Federal Procurement of Biobased Products program. The provision requires Federal agencies to purchase biobased products that meet price, availability and performance standards; provides for a voluntary labeling of certified “Biobased Products;” and provides financial …

The Portland Airport has 10,000 employees, 17 passenger airlines, 14 cargo carriers and over one million passengers “zipping through it each year,” writes Tanya Baker in the Association of Oregon Recyclers (AOR) newsletter. Following a decision to emphasize waste reduction as part of its environmental management system, in 2002 the …

Os plásticos são produzidos a partir de resinas sintéticas provenientes da nafta, um subproduto do petróleo, e são classificados de acordo com sua composição por uma terminologia adotada internacionalmente. O polietileno de alta densidade (PEAD) e o polipropileno (PP), utilizados em embalagens de xampus, são termoplásticos, ou seja, podem ser …

O presente trabalho teve por objetivo analisar as diferentes formas que a Administração Pública municipal brasileira pode assumir para lidar com a questão da disposição final dos resíduos sólidos privilegiando soluções regionalizadas, com atendimento de diferentes Municípios