Article by Andrew Stratton

There are many cases which require a total cleanout and disposal of solid waste materials from a private property – whether that be a home or business. The most common reason for completely clearing a property occurs when a family member dies and surviving members are preparing to sell home or business space.

Another situation that requires the total clean out and disposal of solid waste is a home foreclosure or business bankruptcy. In these events, the state or bank will typically inherit the property as is – solid waste and all.

As a result, the agent responsible for listing and selling the property will typically hire a contractor to remove the belongings so the house is clean and empty when placed on the market. In either situation (a foreclosure or estate clean out), there are few things to keep in mind when preparing to dispose of solid waste materials.

The first thing to consider is the potential to recycle and earn money scrapping old appliances and metal from the property. A clean out contractor will typically haul these items away and make a few hundred dollars cashing them in at the local scrap yard. However, you can do this yourself by simply having access to a hand truck and a flatbed of some sort. Old washing machines, dryers, dishwashers, stoves, abandoned cars, etc. can all be exchanged for cash payment.

Next, the person in charge of the property must contact the township to discuss local ordinances for trash removal of large and un-baggable items. Certain townships require that wooden items are cut down and placed into bags, while other townships have specific dates for large trash pickups. You will also want to consider which items should be recycled and placed in the appropriate recycling bins. Failure to adhere to these regulations can result in fines, so it’s important to be aware of the rules. The easiest way to find out the answers to these questions is to call the town hall or county transfer station and explain in detail what you or the clean out contractor will be hauling out to the curb.

Finally, before hiring a contractor for a solid waste disposal job, take the time to review some of the items being marked as trash. If you believe you have found something of value to a collector or consumer left behind in the home, consider selling it for yourself. Likewise, abandoned items that are in good shape may be put to better use if given to charity.

Organizations such as the Purple Heart and the Salvation army are constantly seeking donations of gently worn clothing and household items, and the abandoned items from an estate or foreclosure could be used to help local families in need.

Most people have heard of recycling paper, plastics and metals. Recycling isn’t a new idea and is becoming a way of life for many people. Recycling is not difficult and something that is easily fit into everyday life. With that said, it should be no big surprise that environmentalists are looking into recycling everything possible.

So what is water recycling? It’s not the most common for of recycling, however, it is very beneficial. Water recycling is taking used, dirty water and turning it back into something useful. Recycled water has many uses that are safe and sanitary, such as:

– water for wetlands or yard use
– water for crops or plants
– water for industrial use

Additionally, recycled water, when treated properly, can be safely used as drinking water. Obviously, in order to use waste water for drinking or anything else that needs to be safe and clean, the water must go through extensive cleaning.

Treatment methods include using chemicals and methods that kill any bacteria or unsavory thing in the water and purify the water back to a state of safe use.

Why Recycle Water?

Water recycling has the main benefit of preserving water supplies. Water recycling has widespread benefits for the environment. Plants, animals and everything else in the environment need water and wasting water is the same as wasting any other vital resource. Water recycling is all about preservation.

Recycling water is something that everyone can do both at home and in their place of business. Something as simple as setting up a rain barrel to water your grass and plants can save gallons every week. The future looks very good for water recycling to become a common occurrence because it can be done with no threat to public safety.

Materials in printer toner cartridges can negatively impact the environment, human beings, plants, and wildlife. For example, carbon and metallic in toner cartridges often create health problems i.e. malignancy in human beings and animals. Waste materials from printer cartridges can create deterioration, dust, corrosion and oxidization in our environment.

Some Shocking Facts About Toner Cartridges: throwing waste toner cartridges into landfills or your garbage contributes to poisoning the environment and global warming. Current data reveals that over 30 million empty toner cartridges are thrown in landfills every year in the UK alone, whereas an estimated 375,000,000 empty toner cartridges are improperly disposed of every year throughout the globe. Image if all those cartridges had been collected and re-manufactured?

According to recent studies, only 15 % of the 60 million toner cartridges sold in the UK are re-manufactured. The rest end up in landfills. These waste toner cartridges are extremely harmful to our environment for the reason that plastic used in cartridges is composed of engineering grade polymers, which can take up to 1,000 years to decompose.

What Exactly Do You Need Now?: By reducing the amount of the printer cartridges that end up in landfills, we are being more proactive and kinder to the environment. Greentech is one such company that is determined to make it easier for businesses to recycle their toner cartridges. You can visit their website at http://www.green-tech.co.uk/. This innovative company will collect your empty printer cartridges and recycle them in their warehouse. The recycled cartridges can be used again for your business purpose. In some cases they will even pay a small fee for acquiring your empty toner cartridges! This helps schools, colleges, universities, local football teams, nonprofit organizations, private and public sector to collect more and more empty cartridges and sell them for cash and charity.

It is through the enterprising efforts of companies like Greentech’s that makes it easier to protect mother earth and environment. This helps to reduce pollution and global warming around the world.

WasteCare Wants You to Remember: Recycling toner and printer cartridges is essential to reduce waste. Before you throw that cartridge in the garbage, look for a company like Greentech in your area!

Article by Janice Jenkins

March 27, 2010 was a big day for our planet. That day, everyone around the world closed their lights for 60 minutes in celebration of global cooperation in an attempt to fight global warming. Earth Hour is done every year to send message around the globe to help fight climate change and save our planet.

That activity is done only once a year. Obviously, it is not enough to save our ailing Earth completely. We have to do drastic measures today if we do not want to experience strong storms, floods, earthquakes, and other natural calamities in increasing frequency. So what do tree-huggers recommend everyone do to help reverse the effect of climate change? RECYCLE.

Recycling is now a quickly budding discipline due largely to the environmental catastrophes experienced in all corners of the globe. As a whole, recycling is not only environment-friendly, but a source of income as well.

A growing trend in recycling today is paper recycling and recycled paper printing. With paper consumption increasing dramatically these days, paper wastes also increases. Recycled paper and recycled paper printing are beneficial and efficient ways of fulfilling our responsibility to ourselves and to nature.

1. Benefits of paper recycling and recycled paper printing. Although end products of recycled papers have rough texture, there is modern technology today that uses bleaching materials to give the paper a smooth quality. So, if you are using a recycled paper in your postcard or brochure printing you will get almost or even better result as using commercial papers. Recycled papers are also cheaper and often more durable, giving you a much better and cost effective output.

2. Printing in recycled papers. The process is basically the same as commercial papers only that you can use eco-friendly inks such as soy and vegetable for a more economical and better quality result.

3. Recycled paper products. The use of recycled paper is basically endless. You can use it in notebooks, scrapbooks, office documents, and even business materials such as postcard and color brochure printing. Also, creative individuals can make their own printed paper bags and artworks out of recycled paper. The possibility is endless when it comes to recycled paper.

4. Paper recycling facts.a. Israel alone consumes about 1 million tons of paper each year.b. Almost 40% of all waste in landfills is paper.c. Most paper thrown as waste is high quality paper.d. Americans buy about 62 million newspapers every day, and around 44 million of them are just thrown out.e. On an average, an American will use about 600 to 700 lbs. of paper each year.f. One recycled tin can would power a television for about 3 hours while one plastic bottle can power a 60-watt light bulb for 3 hours.g. Approximately, 16% of the money you pay for the items you buy is for the packaging, which eventually ends up as waste.h. If recycling were made easier, 9 out of 10 people would recycle.

Essentially, paper recycling and recycled paper printing is easy. It can be done at home, in your office, and almost anywhere. So, do you part in saving our planet. Go out there and recycle. Doing so not only reduces the cost of paper printing, but also allow you to share in the noble act of conserving the beauty of nature, especially the trees.

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Article by Eva Judge

The consumer society has come a long way since the first awareness of environmental damage began to surface in the 1970s. We are now very conscious that our society creates an enormous amount of rubbish, more so than at any other time in recorded history. Now that we have the technology to recycle materials such as newspapers and plastics, and more importantly to make this process profitable, a whole new industry has opened up that helps to reduce the amount of rubbish fouling our environment. By the simple act of tossing rubbish into a recycling bin, an individual can make a difference. It’s just a little harder when the rubbish is made of plastic.

Most plastic sent for recycling is reprocessed into useful products, sometimes in a completely different form from the original material. For example, food packaging could go through the recycling process and end up as another product entirely. It all depends on what the original plastic is made of and what type of process it must go through to be reused as different types of plastic require different processing.

The easiest way to identify suitable plastics is to look for the PET code, a triangle of arrows with a single digit number from 1 to 7 in the centre. Designed in 1988 by the Society of the Plastics Industry, it gives consumers and manufacturers a uniform coding system for differentiating types of plastics.

The most commonly recycled plastics have the numbers 1, 2 and 5 on the PET code. The number 1 is given to plastics made of polyethylene terephthalate, the easiest and most common plastic to recycle. Soft drink and water bottles and many other common consumer product containers are recycled into fiberfill used in sleeping bags. Number 2 is high-density polyethylene, a heavier plastic found in containers that hold laundry detergent, also milk, shampoo and motor oil. This plastic is hard to semi-flexible, is usually white or colored and also relatively easy to process.

Polypropylene is number 5 and is strong, tough, resistant to heat, chemicals, grease and oil, and is a barrier to moisture. Many household items fall into this category including reusable microwaveable ware, yoghurt containers and margarine tubs, disposable take-away containers and disposable cups and plates.

This doesn’t mean the end of the road for the other plastics and as technology keeps improving, some local Council’s are able to recycle 3, 4, 6 and 7. Frozen food bags made of low density polyethylene are a 4 and currently are the only plastic bags recycling stations will accept. More information should be conveyed by the sticker placed on the trash bin.

When all types of plastics can be recycled it will go a long way to reducing our landfill, our energy consumption and hopefully the cost of packaging to the consumer.