Recycling To-Go Plastics
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Even for the greenest recycling junkie, to-go plastics are sometimes unavoidable. From microwave dinners to Chinese takeout, single-use plastics are everywhere. The trick is knowing what to do with that ketchup-covered foam clamshell once you’ve devoured your fries. Here’s your guide to recycling your common to-go plastics.
Recycling To-Go Plastics
Read the full post at Earth911.
Even for the greenest recycling junkie, to-go plastics are sometimes unavoidable. From microwave dinners to Chinese takeout, single-use plastics are everywhere. The trick is knowing what to do with that ketchup-covered foam clamshell once you’ve devoured your fries. Here’s your guide to recycling your common to-go plastics.
ATT Sustainability Report: Energy Intensity Cut Nearly 24%
AT&T has reduced its energy intensity (energy use relative to data growth on its network) by 23.8 percent, exceeding the 15 percent reduction target set in 2008, according to the company’s 2009 Citizenship and Sustainability Report. The company attributes the energy use decrease to unseasonable weather, which lessened the need for cooling and heating. AT&T’s [...]
West Virginia is First State to Join EPA Program for Safe Disposal of Old Appliances
EPA announced on June 17, 2010, that West Virginia has become the first state to join EPA’s Responsible Appliance Disposal (RAD) Program, a nationwide effort to protect the ozone layer and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by properly disposing old refrigerators, freezers and other appliances. Partners that join the RAD Program [...]
Roundup – Dell, Georgia Pacific, Ritz-Carlton
Where Thoreau Lived, Crusade Over Bottles
NY Times
Dell offers free computer recycling
Just Means
5 Green Data Center Startups You Need to Know
Earth2Tech
Sorry, Ritz-Carlton, Plant Based Bottles For Water Are Not Green
TreeHugger
Ultimate green home draws protests in Newport Beach over solar panel glare
LA Times
The Green Gold Rush Over Iceland’s Data Centers
Earth2Tech
CA Technologies Unveils Next Generation of Energy and [...]
Boeing on Track to Meet Environmental Targets by 2012
Boeing is on track to reach its environmental targets by 2012 even though some improvements have been modest over the first few years of its environmental initiative, says Mary Armstrong, Boeing’s vice president of the corporate environment, health and safety team, reports HeraldNet.
Boeing’s goals include reducing hazardous waste generation, carbon dioxide emissions, water consumption and [...]
Alaska Waste Turns Grease to Fuel
Alaska Waste, a private trash hauler in Anchorage, is converting the used food grease it collects to power its trucks, according to a report in the Associated Press. The grease, which previously had been destined for Alaskan landfills or sent to the lower 48 states for processing, will now make its way to a $3 [...]
Roundup – McCandless, Dow Corning, Ingram
Free range eggs contain a little something extra: pollutants
LA Times
Tree-free paper products come from bananas, waste
Scripps Howard News Service
ERA Carbon Offsets Ltd. Signs MOU With McCandless Ranch to Develop Hawaiian Carbon Offset Projects
MarketWatch
EPA endorses climate bill
BusinessGreen
Dow Corning Receives $1.2 Million From U.S. Department of Energy to Improve Energy Efficiency in Commercial Buildings
PR Newswire
WA builders sue [...]
Roundup – BP, FieldTurf, Orlando, SCTE
Economic Concerns Could Affect Green Building Efforts
Earth911
Climate Bill Lacks Momentum Even After BP Spill, Democrats Say
Bloomberg
FieldTurf Becomes the First to Recycle an Artificial Turf Field
PRWeb
Orlando Science Center to Demo Green Technologies
West Orlando News
Saving Energy, And It’s Cost
NY Times
Breaking the Cost Barrier on Algae-based Biofuels
Triple Pundit
SCTE to Form Green Subcommittee
Cable 360
State offers adjustments to air permit [...]
PA Moves One Step Closer to an Electronics Recycling Law
The Pennsylvania House of Representatives approved a bill that requires computer and television manufacturers to establish and manage recycling services for those electronics sold in the state, reports York Daily Record. House Bill 708 also bans dumping these products in a landfill and requires retailers to notify customers about how to recycle these devices. The [...]
