August 3, 2011
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Office Depot is rolling out a new delivery service that could save over 20,000 trees annually – replacing cardboard boxes with reusable plastic totes and plastic air pillows with paper bags. The GreenerOffice Delivery Service, initially launched as a pilot program, is now available to Office Depot business customers nationwide, but customers can choose to [...] Continue reading
Share on FacebookAugust 2, 2011
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Finding recycling options for food and beverage packaging made from plastic and aluminum laminates – such as pouches for drinks or pet food and aseptic drink cartons – has always been a challenge. If you don’t live in one of the handful of…<… Continue reading
Share on FacebookAugust 1, 2011
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Pizza boxes are one of recycling’s great conundrums. The corrugated cardboard boxes are recyclable, in and of themselves, but once the pizza pie soils the cardboard with grease and oil, the paper fibers are damaged and can’t be recycled. But Scott…. Continue reading
Share on FacebookJuly 29, 2011
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For most of us, an eco-friendly elementary education may involve a few extra earth science classes. But for students at the Aman Setu school in India, it means gardening, romps through the grass and a school building made almost entirely out of…<d… Continue reading
Share on FacebookJuly 28, 2011
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The American Chemistry Council announced the very first winners of their Innovation in Plastics Recycling Awards. “We wanted to call attention to the advancements and innovative thinking going on in plastics recycling,” said Steve Russell, Vice…&… Continue reading
Share on FacebookJuly 28, 2011
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Seattle has set an all-time high for recycling and composting, diverting 53.7 percent of its waste from landfills in 2010, according to a city report released last week. That number was 2.6 percent higher than the 2009 diversion total, according to…&… Continue reading
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