Do you remember when recycling entered our collective conscience? Did you first think about The Three Rs – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle – in the 1960s or 1970s? In popular culture the 3-R mentality has ...
You know that warm fuzzy feeling you get when you put an item into the recycling bin? That is the feeling of moral redemption. From the time we are young, at least in my experience, our parents, ...
Wildly popular with consumers, recycling in the U.S. is in crisis right now, particularly for plastics. Many of the items we try to recycle end up in landfills. A recent KAKE news project tracked the ...
Monitex’ mission statement is: "To divert the maximum amount of materials possible from disposal in landfills through reuse and recycling by providing proper and environmentally safe alternatives.
When Rachel Carson published Silent Spring in 1962, it became a rallying point for the nascent environmental movement—not because it was a scientific book (though it is), but because of its haunting ...
In2tec, a United Kingdom-based sustainable electronics developer, has been named as one of three winners of the inaugural ReThink Award, presented by nonprofit Sustainable Electronics Recycling ...
ReTHink of Terre Haute has been awarded a $17,990 Community Recycling grant from the Indiana Department of Environmental ...
Is recycling good for the environment? Well of course, but maybe not the way we do it. John Tierney argued in The New York Times that much of our current recycling, while well-intentioned, is ...
Consumer Reports has no financial relationship with advertisers on this site. Done right, recycling conserves natural resources including water and trees, saves energy, reduces greenhouse gases and ...
The Cincinnati Recycling and Reuse Hub (CRRH) is a place where almost anything can be reused or recycled. The CRRH’s goal is to reduce the amount of waste going into landfills by being a drop-off ...
Thomas Kinnaman argues that it may not make sense to recycle glass and plastic as much as we do currently in America. Economist Says We Need To Rethink How We Recycle Is recycling good for the ...