Marin Demolition Company Starts New Project with Ecologically Friendly Deconstruction Process

Hurricane Hauling and Demolition Inc., a Marin based demolition and hauling company that performs work throughout the greater Bay Area, has recently begun a major project using a deconstruction process that protects both the Earth and the owner’s pocketbook.    Deconstruction is the first step in green building, as materials that would normally end up in landfill [...]

Facebook Has Freecycling

If you’ve got an old couch lying around, or old clothes and furniture that you probably want to dispose of, you can do this now while you are on Facebook. Oodle, a classified ads online, has just launched the FreeCircle Community on the social networkng site. Now its users can trade resuable items or buy [...]

UK Opens Diaper Recycling Facility

The very first recycling facility for disposable diapers or nappies, feminine hygiene products and adult diapers have opened in the United Kingdom. Located in West Bromwich, the Knowaste recycling plant will now process these wastes, diverting them from incinerators and landfills. It’s been said that these diapers and similar products pollute and populate the landfill [...]

Many Uses of Food Scraps

When preparing your own food in the kitchen, there’s really the tendency to gather a lot of waste from such things like peeled potatoes or bananas and other fruits. What do you with this peelings? Most people would throw this away. But you can actually make use of this as compost for the soil, which [...]

Shanghai families say kids poisoned by lead

SHANGHAI (AP) — Families living in one of Shanghai’s industrial suburbs say their children are suffering from lead poisoning from nearby battery and recycling factories.

Waste Management Announces Plans for Clean-Burning Natural Gas for its Columbus Area Fleet

COLUMBUS, Ohio /PRNewswire/ — Waste Management today announced plans to convert to clean burning natural gas-powered trucks for its waste and recycling collection operations in Columbus, Ohio. This will be Waste Management’s first fleet of compressed natural gas (CNG) trucks in Ohio. A new CNG fueling facility will also be installed at the company’s Canal [...]

GE Expands Appliance Recycling for Consumers and Retailers – How RAD.

70 percent of consumers want all or part of their appliance recycled. GE and Appliance Recycling Centers of America (ARCA) now provide appliance recycling services to 12 Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states. New technology system reduces landfill waste of refrigerators by 85 percent by weight. GE Appliances launches initiative to facilitate retailer participation in appliance recycling [...]

GreenHunter Water Announces Marcellus Shale Water Reuse Project

GRAPEVINE, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–GreenHunter Water, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of GreenHunter Energy, Inc. (NYSE Amex: GRH), announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to install and operate an onsite semi-portable water treatment facility in the Marcellus Shale. This facility will receive and treat water used in hydraulic fracturing. The process includes the [...]

Which Reusable Bag Must You Buy?

As more and more stores are encouraging people to bring reusable bags, disposable plastic bags may soon be phased out. This is great news for the environment. However, the market has been overflowing with different kinds of reusable bags, it’s actually becoming harder for consumers to pick which one is really best to use. Incoming [...]

Favorable Reasons to go Green

Going Green is a positive thing. This fact can not be stressed enough. The reality of the situation is to many people are under the illusion that it will be difficult, more expensive, and to time consuming to change. When it actual fact life will remain the same only greener and better for every living [...]

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