N.J. Recycles Boat Shrink Wrap

In anticipation of New Jersey’s upcoming boating season, the state is reminding those who winterized their boats with shrink wrap to recycle this plastic at 0ne of several drop-off sites. New Jersey began its shrink wrap recycling program in 2008, ...

Military to Save Some Green with Renewable Energy

The Ft. Irwin military base in San Bernardino, Calif. has become the military’s testing ground and showcase for the implementation of new green initiatives. The desert base, home to the Army’s premier training center for troops deploying to Iraq and ...

Scientists Developing Recyclable Plastic Casing

The development of a new type of plastic that combines strength, heat resistance and the ability to be molded into new plastic will hopefully make it possible for easier recycling of plastic electronic casing. Scientists in the Netherlands have been ...

Bottom Drops Out of Scrap Metal Industry

In 2008, a recycler in Tulsa, Okla. paid 85 cents per pound for aluminum cans, but the going rate for 2009 has dropped to less than half of that amount. According to Michael Patton, executive director of the Metropolitan Environmental ...

Gas From Landfill Will Power Cement Plant

The largest supplier of cement products in the U.S. and Canada, the Lafarge-Sugar Creek Cement Plant in Missouri, will use landfill gas to replace almost 20 percent of its traditionally coal-derived energy. According to Republic Services, the company managing the ...