Recycling packaging picks like plastic bottles, glass jars and aluminum cans is pretty straightforward, but what about other, more mystifying materials? We’re here to help.
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Tag Archives: Aluminum Cans
December 20, 2012
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How To Get Guests to Recycle at Your Holiday Party
If you’re throwing a holiday party this year, you may run into the dilemma of how to get your guests to recycle. Well-meaning guests may accidentally throw recyclables in the trash, and at a large gathering it can be hard for you as the host or hostess to keep things under control. To prevent having [...] Continue reading
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Business Crafts Old Skateboards into Jewelry and Belt Buckles
What started out as a recycled skateboard birdhouse project with their son’s fifth grade class has boomed into a full-blown business for Phoenix residents Devin and Lisa Kelley. The couple founded Recycled Skateboards International (RSI), a company dedicated to recycling some of the close to two million skateboards that are discarded each year by creating jewelry, keychains, pins [...] Continue reading
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Aluminum Can Recycling Rate Reaches 65 Percent
Aluminum cans are now officially the world’s most recycled beverage container, according to new statistics released by the Aluminum Association, Can Manufacturers Institute and the Institute of Scrap Recycling. There was a seven percent increase in….. Continue reading
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Curbside Recycling: Preventing a Market Failure
Nobody likes trash: taking it out or talking about it. It smells, it is a hassle to deal with, and it can be hazardous to your health, which is why we go through great lengths to have it hauled away every week. Recycling is trash’s cuter brother, with … Continue reading
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Curbside Recycling: Preventing a Market Failure
Nobody likes trash: taking it out or talking about it. It smells, it is a hassle to deal with, and it can be hazardous to your health, which is why we go through great lengths to have it hauled away every week. Recycling is trash’s cuter brother, with … Continue reading
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Aluminum Can Recycling Rate Highest in a Decade
If you’re one of the many Americans who tossed your beverage cans into the recycling bin last year, give yourself a pat on the back. You helped save millions of barrels of oil. The U.S. recycling rate for aluminum beverage cans has reached its…
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How Earth911 Spent Yahoo!’s $100
Editor’s Note: A few weeks ago, our friends at Yahoo! invited us to take part in the How Good Grows campaign. The premise was simple: Start a ripple of kindness and see where it goes. To spur on the challenge, Yahoo! gave us $100 to spend how we saw fit. Our Managing Editor took to [...] Continue reading
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Green Ideas That Made Millions
As more and more Americans go green, environmentally sustainable innovations are translating into big bucks for entrepreneurs. Sure, going green feels great, but these five eco trailblazers are living proof that green business can also mean money in the bank, not to mention a lighter footprint for all. Green moving with Spencer Brown Five years [...] Continue reading
Share on FacebookSeptember 23, 2010
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Great American Can RoundUp Awards Cash for Recycling
The Can Manufacturers Institute (CMI) has launched a contest similar calling on groups to register and collect cans starting and going through Earth Day 2011. Similar in style to Recyclemania, the Great American Can RoundUp winners from each state…… Continue reading
Share on FacebookJuly 12, 2010
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Is It Really Recyclable?
One of the most common questions we receive at Earth911 is: “Is Product X recyclable?” If only this could be answered with a “yes” or “no.”
It’s a question asked by consumers, members of the media, manufacturers/retailers and even recyclers on a quest to divert as much waste as possible from landfills.
But the truth is – [...] Continue reading
July 2, 2010
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Couple Reaches Goal, Recycles 400,000 Cans to Pay for Wedding
Back in January, Tonic reported on Andrea Parrish and Peter Geyer’s rather ingenious goal for how they’d pay for their July wedding.
Their plan was to collect and recycle 400,000 aluminum cans by this month in order to pay for their…