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Recycling the Big Stuff

Jennifer Berry, January 5th, 2009

We spend a lot of time focusing on how to recycle everyday items. Your daily newspaper, your cell phone, your car's battery. But there's a lot more to the wide world of recycling than just empty wine bottles and CFLs. What if you needed to dispose of something bigger, or more obscure? What if you had 10 outdated HVAC units and ... read more

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Tagged airconditioner, basics, carbatteries, cellphone, cfl, concrete, constructionmaterials, greenglass, ideas, lead, newspaper, noteworthy, plasticbags, steel

Published in Metal


Website Identifies Toxic Chemicals in Toys

Trey Granger, December 9th, 2008

Just in time for holiday toy purchases, the Michigan-based Ecology Center has released its second annual consumer guide to what toxic chemicals have been found in toys, including lead, mercury and polyvinyl chloride (PVC). Healthytoys.org lets consumers search a database of over 1,500 toys that have been tested by an X-Ray fluorescence analyzer to find out what's on or near ... read more

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Tagged basics, ideas, lead, mercury, noteworthy, number3plastic, pvc, toys

Published in Household


The Future of Recycling

Chad Burnham, November 10th, 2008

Since the environmental revolution of 1970’s, we have seen the national recycling rate rise to almost 33 percent. However, this still means that 55 percent of post-consumer materials end up in a landfill, and 12 percent more is still being incinerated. Resource Recycling recently released an article reporting the results of a survey of nearly 300 domestic recycling coordinators ... read more

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Tagged basics, batteries, cellphone, computers, ideas, lead, mp3player, noteworthy, rechargeablebatteries, recycle, reduce, reuse, singleusebatteries, television

Published in General


EPA Launches Lead Poisoning Prevention Week

Trey Granger, October 21st, 2008

The theme of this year's National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week is "Let's Wipe Out Lead Poisoning—Renovate Right!" to promote the proper handling of renovations that involve lead-based paint. The U.S. EPA created an entire site on lead-safe renovations, in coordination with a rule that will take effect in 2010 requiring contractors to be certified to work on projects with lead-based ... read more

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Tagged basics, computermonitors, ideas, lead, noteworthy, paint, television

Published in Hazardous


Where Batteries Live

Lori Brown, October 20th, 2008

We are all familiar with batteries. They are in use in many aspects of our daily lives, powering everything from our cars to our cell phones. But how much do we really know about the batteries we are using? And just where do these batteries live? Over 15 billion batteries are sold in the U.S. each year. The majority of these ... read more

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Tagged basics, batteries, carbatteries, energy, ideas, lead, mercury, noteworthy, rechargeablebatteries, recycle, singleusebatteries

Published in Hazardous


Lead the Charge

Bob Peeples, PE, October 13th, 2008

Power to the Peeples is an exclusive Earth911 series written by Bob Peeples, our resident chemical engineer and Program Manager of Earth911’s sister site Beaches911. Bob combines his extensive knowledge of the environment and how things work with an off-the-cuff sense of humor. About 25 years ago, we were looking at ways to reduce the mercury getting into the environment. ... read more

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Tagged basics, batteries, beaches, energy, ideas, lead, mercury, noteworthy, recycle, reduce, toys

Published in Hazardous


8 Ways to Green Your Battery Use

Trey Granger, October 6th, 2008

This story is part of Earth911’s “Green Eight” series, where we showcase eight ways to green your life in various areas. You may not realize how often you use batteries until you have to operate for a few hours without electricity. Batteries are great at keeping a charge in our mobile devices, but the components that help generate these charges wreak ... read more

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Tagged basics, batteries, carbatteries, cellphone, computers, ideas, lead, mercury, noteworthy, recycle, reduce

Published in Hazardous


Hitting the Recycle Button

Trey Granger, October 6th, 2008

Pop quiz: what is the fastest growing sector of the electronics industry? Cell phones? Wrong number. Televisions? Adjust your picture. Personal computers? Error 404. If you said video game consoles, then get ready to warp to the next level. There were over 60 million consoles sold last year alone, according to John Shegerian, Chairman and CEO of Electronic Recyclers International, and they contain ... read more

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Tagged basics, ideas, lead, motherboard, noteworthy, recycle, videogame

Published in Electronics


Which Batteries to Use? The Debate Keeps Going, Going

Steve Uydess, October 6th, 2008

The dawn of the internet and the Information Age generated tremendous new demand for power, as companies built their own networks and shifted to computer-based operations. Additionally, as technology shrinks to more portable proportions, more and more of that power will come from batteries. New batteries certainly look shiny and clean and easy to dispose; however, as anyone who has left ... read more

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Tagged basics, batteries, carbatteries, ideas, lead, noteworthy, rechargeablebatteries, recycle, reduce, singleusebatteries

Published in Hazardous


EPA Creates Site to Help with Digital Switch

Trey Granger, October 2nd, 2008

February 17, 2009 is quickly approaching, also known as the day when broadcast television stations switch their signal to digital only. The U.S. EPA has created a new resource page to help consumers deal with the transition and minimize the environmental impact. The page includes an overview of which televisions will be affected, how to find a digital converter box ... read more

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Tagged basics, ideas, lead, noteworthy, otherglass, television, waterquality

Published in Electronics


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