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Popular Mechanics December 2008 |
Is Recycling Worth It? PM Investigates its Economic and Environmental Impact Almost overnight, it seemed, recycling was embraced by the public as a kind of all-purpose absolution for our environmental sins. |
Popular Mechanics November 10, 2008 |
Recycling Myths: PM Debunks 5 Half Truths about Recycling The dominant factor in virtually every case is the enormous amount of energy required to turn raw materials into metals and plastics compared to the energy needed to reprocess products that already exist. |
Scientific American September 2009 David Farley |
Airlines & Recycling: The Not-So-Green Skies New calls for the U.S. airline industry to take recycling seriously |
Fast Company September 2008 Melanie Warner |
Green Business: Plastic Potion No. 9 Recycling should be the easy way to get people involved in helping the environment. Too bad the businesses behind it are blowing it. |
BusinessWeek April 22, 2010 Diane Brady |
Pepsi's Plan to Make Litter Green Offering rewards for bottles and cans may help Pepsi reach its goal of boosting U.S. beverage container recycling rates. |
Popular Mechanics January 13, 2009 Joe P. Hasler |
What's the Future of Recycling After the Market's Precipitous Plunge? When the global economy began its death spiral in September, it took the recycling industry down with it. |
Popular Mechanics March 28, 2008 Joanna Borns |
Spongelike Air-Capture Gadget Scrubs Away Carbon Emissions Researchers have invented a phone-booth-size device that can take back the carbon dioxide emissions that have already reached the atmosphere. |
IndustryWeek November 1, 2007 Brad Kenney |
Green IT at a Premium More than half of us will pay up to 10% more for green products and services. |
Delicious Living February 2005 Julie Rothschild Levi |
Plastic Do's and Dont's DO check those numbered recycling triangles when you buy plastic... DON'T microwave plastics not intended for such use... DO try stainless-steel water bottles... DON'T keep store-bought cheeses, meats, or fish in the original cling wrap... etc. |
Fast Company November 19, 2011 Emma Haak |
Seventh Generation Introduces Eco-Friendly Laundry Detergent Containers When one product becomes more eco-friendly, benefits abound throughout the supply chain. |
Home Theater July 27, 2009 Mark Fleischmann |
NYC Electronics Recycling Law Challenged New York City's new electronics recycling law has attracted criticism from two major trade groups who point to what they call "disastrous" consequences. |
BusinessWeek May 14, 2009 Christopher Palmeri |
A Recycling Boom Gone Bust Because of slumping demand and falling prices, the recycling divisions of trash-hauling companies are facing big losses this year. |
The Motley Fool August 25, 2004 Dave Marino-Nachison |
Beer Shows Its "Metal" Alcoa and Pittsburgh Brewing are teaming up on aluminum beer bottles. In all businesses -- but especially established, slow-growth ones -- any advantage or new way to juice sales is worth investigating. |
Popular Mechanics December 17, 2009 Adam Hadhazy |
How the Manufacturing Sector Can Curtail Its Greenhouse Gas Emissions Increasing efficiency, which reduces emissions, also improves the bottom line, and so the manufacturing industry has already begun to think creatively about its sizable carbon footprint. |
The Motley Fool April 21, 2004 Selena Maranjian |
PC Makers Get Green Computer manufacturers are stepping up their recycling, under pressure. |
Chemistry World December 9, 2014 Emma Cooper |
Plastic bottles recycled into cigarette filters A method to recycle the common plastic polyethylene terephthalate (PET) from soda bottles into membranes for filtration, including cigarette filter tips, has been developed by scientists. |
Investment Advisor July 2009 Robert F. Keane |
How To Make Cap and Trade Work A successful market-based cap and trade program for carbon emissions requires a few minimum elements. |
CIO April 15, 2003 |
Recycling Resources In addition to each state's department of environmental protection, there are several online databases that list local and regional electronics recyclers, as well as programs for educational donations |
PC Magazine March 6, 2007 Dan Costa |
Buy A Dell PC, Plant A Tree Today, you can send any Dell PC back to the company for recycling without paying a penny. If you buy a new Dell, the company actually sends someone to pick up your old PC. |
Reason October 2002 Jeremy Lott |
History's Dustbin To help narrow an ever-widening budget deficit, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has scaled back his city's curbside recycling program. |
Fast Company February 2015 Jaclyn Trop |
Turning Trash Into Treasure Lagos, Nigeria, is home to 21 million people, but only 40% of their trash is collected. |
Fast Company July 2006 |
Nasty, Dirty, Yucky... And in Demand A global building boom is driving up metal prices, turning trash into treasure. |
Food Processing October 2010 Diane Toops |
Can Celebrates Its 200th Birthday Happy 200th birthday, can -- the best packaging in history and still evolving. |
Inc. December 2008 Tess Taylor |
Going Carbon Neutral These companies all fund projects certified by the Voluntary Carbon Standard or the Gold Standard. |
Chemistry World February 8, 2010 Rebecca Renner |
Coming clean on emissions outsourcing Industrialized countries 'outsource' a large proportion of the carbon dioxide emissions associated with manufacturing the items they consume, according to a new study that, for the first time, details this outsourcing on a global basis. |
Chemistry World October 1, 2012 Phillip Broadwith |
Polystyrene depolymerisation: new recycling option A continuous process for converting waste polystyrene back to styrene monomer has been developed by US chemists. |
This Old House February 1, 2001 Celia Kuperszmid Lehrman |
Collection Agents Recycling is part of life for many homeowners. Here's a rundown of products and ideas that make it easier... |
Food Processing August 2010 Beau Griffey |
Power Lunch: How the American Power Act May Affect You A cap-and-trade marketplace creates burdens, solutions and opportunities. |
CFO February 1, 2007 Janet Kersnar |
View from Europe: Global Warming's Cost Corporate Europe is showing why combating global warming may be less costly than ignoring it. |
IEEE Spectrum October 2008 Paul McFedries |
E-cycling E-waste Recycling old words to reprocess old electronics. |
IndustryWeek April 1, 2006 Jill Jusko |
Manufacturers Achieve Emissions Goals Here is a short list of the many goals and achievements reached by manufacturers in their voluntary efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Carbon dioxide is a primary component of greenhouse gases. |
BusinessWeek September 24, 2009 Peter Burrows |
Apple Launches Major Green Effort Apple is set to launch its most aggressive effort yet to counter green critics. It's being more forthcoming with environmental data - and working to change the terms of the debate. |
IndustryWeek July 1, 2004 John S. McClenahen |
HP Doubles Recycling Efforts To further encourage the recycling of unwanted computers and printers, Hewlett Packard Development Co. doubled the value of its return and recycling e-coupon for U.S. consumers during April of this year. |
Chemistry World November 24, 2011 Hepeng Jia |
China's emissions still surging China's carbon dioxide emissions have kept growing quickly, shadowing worldwide efforts to fight global warming. |
Chemistry World October 5, 2011 Simon Hadlington |
Turning Carbon Dioxide Into Chemicals with an Amine Chemists in France have devised a new way to turn carbon dioxide into a useful chemical building block. |
IDB America November 2004 Paul Constance |
Dignity at the Dump Thousands of Latin Americans make a living by scavenging through garbage; can their work be made safe and legal? |
The Motley Fool August 17, 2011 Alex Planes |
Are Goldman Sachs' Secret Warehouses Making Aluminum Miners Rich? Goldman Sachs makes a metals play in Detroit, stockpiling aluminum even as demand skyrockets. |
Fast Company November 2008 |
High-Tech Ways to Go Green at Home Advanced sensors and incentives can trim electricity, water, and gas use at home and boost recycling. |
Food Processing September 2008 Diane Toops |
Food and Beverage Companies Go Green Consumers are making choices based on sustainability efforts; here's what the top food and beverage companies are doing. |
Fast Company November 1, 2007 David Roberts |
Are Carbon Offsets a Cop-Out? Fighting climate change may have become a crusade -- but it's no sin to do the easiest thing first. Carbon dioxide is fungible, like money -- not personal, like sin. |
Fast Company September 14, 2011 Emma Haak |
E-Scrap Conference Talks Responsible Recycling E-cycling is a $5 billion business in the U.S. |
Geotimes April 2006 Naomi Lubick |
Faith-Based Carbon Credit Systems Market-based approaches to help stem carbon releases, and in turn climate change, could prove difficult to marshal and enforce. Carbon credits and trade incentives are a small piece in a larger issue. |
CIO August 29, 2011 Elana Varon |
Why Companies Should Donate Used PCs Instead of Recycling When crafting your IT green efforts, it's a no-brainer to consider the greater good. |
The Motley Fool August 12, 2011 Alyce Lomax |
How Wasteful Are Your Companies? Big companies you own may have better eco-policies than you thought. |
BusinessWeek July 12, 2004 Kathleen Kerwin |
CO2: The Debate Heats Up Is carbon dioxide an air pollutant? That will be the key issue in any legal challenge by auto makers to California's proposed rules to reduce carbon dioxide in auto exhaust. |
IndustryWeek December 1, 2004 John Teresko |
Using Less To Create More Hydro Aluminum North America puts upgraded St. Augustine facility to work. |
Chemistry World December 12, 2012 Yan Yan |
China's emissions may peak as soon as 2025 New research suggests that China's carbon emissions could peak as soon as 2025. But not everyone is convinced by these projections. |
Food Processing March 2011 Kate Bertrand Connolly |
Food Processors Beginning to See Benefits of Going Green With Packaging From Heinz to the Girl Scouts, everyone wants packaging with less environmental downside. |
Chemistry World November 7, 2008 Matt Wilkinson |
Rocks to soak up carbon dioxide Oman's peridotite alone could lock away over a billion tons of CO 2 a year - a significant slice of the 30 billion tons of CO 2 emitted annually worldwide by human activity. |
IndustryWeek March 1, 2002 Doug Bartholomew |
Beyond The Grave New regulations and concerns for the environment are prompting manufacturers to design products for easier recycling and remanufacturing... |