Unique Recycling Ideas

Five Unique Ways to Recycle More and Save The Environment

1. Plant a garden – it doesn’t have to be a big space to start, but guaranteed, once you get the “green thumb” you’ll be hooked on growing your own fresh vegetables, herbs, and fruit!

2. Who’s “the recycler” at your next party? – we’ve all heard of “designated drivers” but what about “designated recycler”? Parties and large gatherings generate lots of trash and recyclables. Have a person take on this role to make sure all is sorted properly.

3. Capture cold water for recycling – waiting for warm water? Capture the cold water for use with watering plants, pets, or drinking.

4. Trash-free lunch – pack your lunch and drinks in re-usable containers, and use cloth napkins and silverware that can be reused after washing.

5. Buy “pre-owned” – there are many great resources for finding pre-owned items. These could be books, clothing, home decor… the list is endless. Before buying new, see if a pre-owned item meets your needs. You’ll save money, too!

Want more great ideas on recycling? Visit 1001BestWays.com and see all their user-submitted suggestions.

WasteCare Wants You to Remember: Recycling your waste can be fun! Challenge yourself, your family, your co-workers, to come up with new ways to re-use and recycle. It’ll save the environment and save you money!

 

Tips for Reducing Waste-water Treatment

Article by Claudius Jaeger

Wastewater treatment cleans and recycles waste-water so that it can be safely used for other purposes. Wastewater comes from a variety of sources: houses, drains, businesses, industry, agriculture and much more. The proper treatment of wastewater protects the environment and public health.

Untreated sewage is loaded with disease-causing bacteria that are harmful to humans. It can also reduce water quality by contributing too little oxygen or too many nutrients (sewage, fertilizer, etc.) to rivers and oceans. Sewage on average is about 99 percent water, and the remaining 1 percent of the solid and dissolved materials poured or flushed down the drain.

A sewage treatment plant can handle tens of millions of gallons of wastewater per day, although the volume may increase dramatically on rainy days. Using the same natural principles, sewage treatment plants are a modern miracle, and they do a fantastic job of sewage treatment, but you are the first line of defense.

Here are some simple things you do to ensure the water quality and lower cost of treatment:

    1. Reduce your water consumption. Water conservation protects the environment and saves money. The less water you use, the less wastewater to be treated.
    2. Make sure to keep non-biodegradable materials out of your sewer and waste-water treatment area. Put hair, grease, cotton swabs, feminine hygiene materials in the trash. In addition to non-biodegradable materials blocking the pipes in your home or office, all non-biodegradable materials must be removed at the sewage treatment plant and moved to a landfill.
    3. Keep hazardous waste away from the drain! Hazardous waste is any material which can catch fire, explode, corrode, or is considered toxic. Hazardous waste includes petroleum, herbicides, pesticides, solvents, thinners, and prescription medication.

Claudius Jaeger is President of Jaeger Aeration at jaeger-aeration.com.

WasteCare Wants You to Remember: Water is a valuable commodity so think twice about your level of use. Don’t ever flush chemicals down the toilet or drain as it can pollute the environment.

Save Energy by Recycling!

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) wants all people living in the United States to learn about the benefits of recycling common household and workplace items.  On their website at http://www.epa.gov/epawaste/conserve/tools/iwarm/index.htm is a fun and easy to use calculator called iWARM that helps you to see the energy benefits of recycling.  For example, did you know that recycling an aluminum beverage can rather than landfilling it saves enough energy to operate a 60W incandescent lightbulb for 4.3 hours, or to operate the equivalent compact fluorescent bulb for 20 hours?  Wow! If you consume a few cans of any beverage every week and recycle, that’s the equivalent of one compact fluorescent bulb being on almost constantly!

In additonal to cans, the calculator will also help you to estimate the energy benefits of recycling rather than landfilling the following products:

  • Aluminum cans
  • Metal coat hanger
  • Steel cans
  • Glass bottles
  • Gallon plastic (HDPE) milk jug
  • Gallon plastic (HDPE) detergent container
  • Plastic grocery bag
  • Plastic (PET) bottles
  • Corrugated cardbox
  • Weekly magazines
  • Catalogs
  • Daily newspapers
  • Printer paper
  • White business envelopes
  • Paperboard Cereal boxes
  • and much more!

WasteCare Wants You to Remember: Recycling saves energy and saving energy saves money!  Make an effort to recycle at work and home and dispose of your waste in a compliant, efficient manner.

Reducing Waste at Home

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is a great source of information for individuals and businesses wanting to do more to protect the environment and reduce, reuse, and recycle.  Here are some tips that can be tried at home or in the office!

  1. Use your garbage disposal sparingly. When you compost vegetable food waste, you’re conserving and using less water (and your garden will love the nutrient rich food).
  2. Appliances such as your TV, DVD player, cell phone charger, etc. consume energy just by being plugged in. Unplug them when you are not using them.
  3. Use a lunch box or insulated cooler for lunch instead of a paper or plastic sack.
  4. In the lunchroom, take only what you plan to use and eat. This includes food, paper napkins, condiment packets, straws, plastic drink tops, and other disposable items. Some items, like plastic forks and spoons, can be washed and used multiple times.
  5. If you buy drinks while on the road, bring your own mug or container and/or patronize places that provide refillable containers – some places will reduce the cost of the drink if you bring your own container!
  6. Copy articles double-sided when possible and request double-sided printing at copy centers
  7. Save files and e-mails electronically, and don’t print out a hard copy of everything.
  8. Use as much natural light as possible. If you use indoor lights, switch to compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs). If you are stepping out of a room for more than 15 minutes, turn off the lights.
  9. Simplify your life! Keep only those belongings that you use and enjoy on a regular basis. Think before you buy – do you really need it? Try the seven-day rule: wait a week after you make a decision to buy something to eliminate impulse buying.This will save you money too!
  10. Carpool to school, athletic events, shopping to reduce your energy consumption (and save gas money and wear and tear on your automobile).

WasteCare Wants You to Remember: If each person made one conscious effort every day to reduce their waste (even just re-using a plastic fork instead of throwing it away) think about the impact that would have on the environment!

 

How to Recycle Industrial Waste

In cities and suburbs across the United States, commercial and industrial waste contributes a significant percentage of all solid waste generated and collected. In contrast to most residential or domestic waste, commercial garbage is usually collected by contracting with a hauler in the private sector, and local governments have been slow to target this waste stream for recycling and reuse. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has developed several online resources to help communities managers effectively address commercial and industrial waste generated in their municipality and successfully meet recycling and recovery goals.

These specific materials and information resources that are provided include:

  1. Industrial Waste Guidelines to help community decision-makers with recommendations and tools to better address the management of land-disposed, non-hazardous industrial wastes.
  2. Best practices and policies for handling the recycling of construction and demolition materials
  3. Resources for handling specialized waste products including: cement kiln dust, crude oil and natural gas, mineral processing and mining waste, medical waste, and carbon dioxide streams.

WasteCare Wants You to Remember: While you don’t have to be an expert in industrial waste recycling to effectively run your business, having an understanding can help you to discover ways to reduce your overhead and perhaps generate income.

Organics Recycling and Waste Disposal

Article by Sero0128

Organics recycling is the process of turning organic waste such as food scraps into compost. Compost is a soil filled with nutrients that can be used as a natural fertilizer in gardens. As a part of vermin-gold goes green initiative, they have added to their mixed recycling programs. With the organic waste disposal program, waste is collected in bins, and then hauled to an organic recycling facility.

Eco- friendly for environment and conservation vermin-gold company has developed with the aim to improve the quality of compost generated from green waste.Vermi-gold organics screening system will help to maintain the leading role in reducing landfill. That group recycles more than 100,000 tonnes of organic material each year.

The build a organics recycling facilities to manage the waste generate in various society that is called by product of consumption. They also respond the real life scenarios that involved the accidental release of some form of contaminant on Land Sea. They were created by an entrepreneur in his twenties who recognized the need for a more sustainable approach to waste management….well before it became vogue to do so….and worked tireless to bring his vision to reality.

There are several reasons for vermin-gold adoption of organics recycling programs. Such as reduction in landfill usage and operating costs, reduce tip-page fees for organic waste disposal,environmental benefits, support of community recycling efforts and sustainability, legislative compliance, receipt of carbon credits. In Vermi-gold Company for the method of organic waste disposal Organic waste sent to landfill causes considerable damage to the environment, as it decomposes it produces a mixture of carbon dioxide and methane both of which are harmful greenhouse gases.Methane is known to be 20 times more potent a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide and it is estimated that around 20% of methane emissions in the vermin-gold are produced as a result of organic waste in landfill. The government has acted to enforce this through existing legislation and challenging future targets aimed at reducing the amount of organic waste sent to landfill, therefore everyone will need to ensure they dispose of their waste in a responsible and sustainable manner.Under the company program separated food and organics are collected at participating business. vermi- gold then picks up the food and facility where it is processed in specially designed bio-separator. With this all process contaminates are removed from organic waste, which is then transformed into an organic slurry that can be mixed with the other complementary liquids to maximize its use in creating green energy.

For more information about the Organic waste disposal and Organics recycling.You can go through the link:The Author is a Founder and expert in waste management and recycling processes.

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Hazardous Waste New Techniques for Disposal

New trends have emerged in the cleaning up of hazardous waste. Conventional methods have become obsolete, and new waste management and disposal methods have taken over. These new age methods are very effective in hazardous waste disposal. They make short work of the lump and boast of a proven track record in disposal of hazardous waste. Their efficacy has persuaded the authorities to make them a permanent fixture. No more are they trial maneuvers, but fixed ones that get used all the time. Some of them have been given below:

 

Integrated Waste Management: This method is a recent find and done through life cycle analysis. This is put to use during the disposal of hazardous waste from municipal sites. Segregation, source separation and collection followed by re usage and recycling, comprise of this method. After this stage, comes fertilizer production from the organic waste fraction. Non metallic water resources are retained and not destroyed, to get eventually reused.
Plasma Gasification: Plasma is known to be an electrically charged and ionized gas. Lightning too has Plasma, where unsurprisingly the temperature goes in excess of 7000 Degree Celsius. The Vessel, in which the Gasification process takes place, touches an operating temperature of around 5500 Degree Celsius. This creates a highly intense gasification zone where solid gets converted into liquid, and eventually into Gas. This process subsequently leads to elemental destruction of these hazardous materials, leading to success hazardous waste disposal.
Landfill: Disposal of hazardous waste in a landfill involves burying the waste. Landfills are mostly fixed in deserted pits and mining voids. The landfill has an innate ability to be hygienic and inexpensive at the same time. The characteristics of a well designed landfill include containing feces, keeping vermin and rats at bay and having gas extraction systems or extracting landfill gas. The extraction process happens through perforated pipes and the gas extracted is burned off in gas engines to generate electricity. Disposal of hazardous waste happens in style.
Incineration: This method of hazardous waste disposal involves combustion of waste material. Incinerators, in which this process happens, convert waste materials into heat, gas, steam or ash. The finest benefit coming from this method is that while the incinerators are working, a lot of heat is produced which eventually get used as energy.
Recycling: Recycling is a semi conventional method of disposal of hazardous waste. The process involves the conversion of such hazardous waste into remodeled and useful products. The material is sorted directly from mixed waste.

 

These are some of the latest techniques used for the disposal of hazardous waste. http://www.bettsmetals.com/betts-metal-sales/betts-envirometal/  The techniques are some of the finest ones to be put into place so that the waste is taken care of. They are vey different from the typical conventional methods and some of them in fact, have not even been heard of till recently. Using them can be very useful in the disposal of such waste as they take care of every flaw that was prevalent during the days of yore when things were done conventionally.

Betts Metals provide Hazardous Waste Disposal, Industrial Waste Disposal, Hazardous Waste Removal, Hazardous Waste Recycling, Hazardous waste removal Disposal of Hazardous Waste.

 

Confidential Waste Disposal is Good Business

Article by Jennifer Biggins

Each year, thousands of firms around the world are victimised by identity theft, resulting in millions in losses with sometimes catastrophic results. Countless more see their proprietary secrets stolen by clever criminals. Sadly, many of these incidents occur in the absence of physical break-ins or burglaries; firms’ paper waste, which often ends up in the rubbish bin outside, is all these deviants need to bring misery to the good businessmen and -women of the world.

Fortunately, confidential waste disposal provides a secure, low-cost solution to this vexing issue. As criminal enterprises targeting private information have become more sophisticated in recent years, more and more firms have been turning to waste disposal specialists for answers.

The best experts in this field know that good managers need to focus on directing their operations, not on how to get rid of their rubbish safely throughout the day. Paper shredding, the most common form of waste disposal, can be time-consuming and produces noise and clutter that can interfere with operations. Any worthwhile waste management firm knows this and will take care to schedule their shredding sessions for after-hours or, if this is not feasible, remove documents from the premises for efficient processing.

Additionally, those unfamiliar with the art of paper shredding can cause paper jams rather easily, in the worst case damaging or destroying the machines and causing unnecessary expense, worry, and delay. Confidential waste disposal experts are top-notch at avoiding these pitfalls and can dramatically shorten the length of time needed to complete a shredding operation.

Because of the sensitive nature of the disposal process, managers need to be careful who they hire to take on this responsibility. Many dodgy outfits who call themselves waste disposal experts are unworthy of consideration, so care should be taken to choose a respected firm with years’ worth of satisfied customers.

It is equally important only to hire firms that conduct thorough background screens for their own employees. Waste disposal specialists who do not take this extra step should be seen as untrustworthy and avoided, as should those who do not maintain a documented chain of custody for all sensitive materials so that business owners and managers know where, how, and by whom they were handled. Carelessness can quickly become costly if confidential documents fall into the wrong hands.

Confidential waste disposal is an art and a science. The best disposal firms take care to avoid disrupting their clients’ normal operations, shredding off-hours or incinerating off-site, and conduct background screens to avoid security lapses. Hiring trusted disposal experts makes all the difference.

Jennifer has worked in different industries, such as air freight and document disposal. This has given her an insight into topics such as identity fraud and transportation, allowing Jennifer to write in her spare time to free the creative part of her mind

Jennifer is a business consultant and has worked with different companies in her career. She thinks that it is important for businesses to dispose of private documents through confidential waste disposal to protect information. For more details, please visit The Shredding Alliance.

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Demand for Medical Waste Disposal Increasing

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Medical waste generation is expected to continue growing steadily over the five years to 2016, according to IBISWorld, the nation?s largest publisher of industry research. Insurance coverage for low-income individuals will likely expand through the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and the aging US population will become Medicare eligible, resulting in increased patient visits to healthcare facilities. While this Act became effective in 2011, most of its effects will be felt during the next five years where revenue for the Medical Waste Disposal Services industry is forecast to grow to $ 3.0 billion. For this reason, industry research firm IBISWorld has added a report on the Medical Waste Disposal Services Industry to its growing Healthcare Services report collection.

 

US medical facilities are expected to generate about 5.6 million tons of medical waste in 2011. However, because of public safety concerns, most medical waste cannot be directly disposed of in landfills along with municipal solid waste. A growing number of laws and regulations govern the disposal of regulated medical waste (RMW), which is defined as waste that may be contaminated by blood, body fluids or other potentially infectious materials. As a result of increased regulation, most small quantity RMW-generating facilities outsource disposal activities in order to comply. While some large quantity generators (e.g. hospitals) dispose of their own waste at in-house incinerators, outsourced services represent another large market for the Medical Waste Disposal Services industry.

 

According to IBISWorld analyst, Brian Bueno, the number of patient visits in the healthcare sector has risen, and healthcare providers are outsourcing more disposal services to reduce costs, driving industry demand. ?While the recession softened demand for health services as insurance coverage declined, the aging of the US population has created robust demand from individuals with Medicare coverage,? says Bueno. ?Additionally, slimming margins for the Hospitals industry has forced many to outsource waste disposal activities that were previously done in-house.? Because of strong downstream demand, the industry remained relatively unscathed during the economic downturn, which cut revenue by just 1.2% in 2008.

 

The Medical Waste Disposal Services Industry is highly competitive, geographically fragmented and characterized by consolidation. The largest industry player, Stericycle has aggressively acquired small operators to expand its reach among the growing small quantity generator market (e.g. outpatient clinics and dental offices). Stericycle is the largest regulated medical waste management company in the United States, and it has significant operations overseas. US Ecology Inc. is another major player in the Medical Waste Disposal Services Industry. The company offers its services to a variety of markets, including refineries, chemical production facilities, manufacturers and medical institutions. Firms compete with a large number of regional and local waste collection firms and the in-house operations of some hospitals, which include firms like Waste Management Inc. and Healthcare Waste Solutions Inc. Rising waste generation and healthcare regulation is anticipated to create further opportunities for new entrants over the next five years, driving demand growth.

 

BISWorld?s Medical Waste Disposal Services market research report is a comprehensive guide to market size and growth prospects. Our industry reports offer strategic industry analysis of the factors influencing companies, including new product developments, economic, lifestyle and demographic influences, distribution and supply chain factors and pricing issues. Full analysis accompanies our data forecasts to illustrate how the market responds to emerging industry trends.

 

For more information, download the full report from IBISWorld on the Medical Waste Disposal Services Industry

 

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Good Waste Disposal practices saves Money

Article by Louise Longworth

Creating business waste is an unavoidable consequence of running any sort of enterprise, be it a factory based business producing a product, or an office based business providing a service; but dealing with the actual disposal of the waste that your business produces doesn’t have to be arduous.

By selecting a good, professional waste clearance company to carry out the collection of business waste, who can also manage the documentation that is required in order to comply with health and safety, and government legislation, you can make your own life a whole lot easier.

Business waste disposal is now very tightly controlled, and this has come about as the government and their local authorities have made significant strides towards minimising the contamination of the environment and striving to increase the amount of recycling.

Landfill sites have become too “soft a touch” and the amount of potential toxic contamination has risen to dangerous highs. This has resulted in the development of new recycling plants that have been developed to deal specifically with things like Mercury, which is found in fluorescent tubes, and old televisions etc.

This in turn has led to the formation of the new WEEE directive which has been developed to control the disposal of all electrical products. A good business waste disposal company will know the ins and outs of current legislation and will ensure that your waste is disposed of legally.

The fact of the matter is that heavy financial penalties face those who fail to abide by the new rules. Waste disposal companies can lose their licence to continue trading, but more importantly, the business that produced the waste can also be subject to significant fines. This means that the selection of a good waste disposal company can profoundly affect a company’s viability, should that company be deemed to have been negligent in controlling how their waste was disposed of.

For some, business confidentiality is a key factor, and leaks allowed through the casual disposal of scrap documents that carry sensitive information are very real. This means that businesses to whom confidentiality is an issue need to consider this within their overall criteria when vetting potential business waste disposal partners.

You should look to find potential suppliers who are experienced in this area, and who will be able to give you appropriate documentation that signifies either the safe transit of the papers/drawings to a destruction station, or that the sensitive material has been shredded on site prior to removal. Business waste disposal companies that operate in this arena will also have very stringent employee screening procedures and should be willing and able to allay any fears that you may have in this area.

Here is a check list that you can use not only when you are going through your vendor selection process, but you can also use it as a vendor rating check for your incumbent supplier:

* Does the company have an effective booking service?

* Do they offer a pre-booked arrival time facility?

* Do they always turn up reliably when they say they will?

* Can they prove to you that they only used properly licensed disposal and recycling centres?

* Does the company provide you with full tracking and certification paperwork?

* Are they proactive in helping you to maximize your waste disposal activity?

* Are their staff uniformed, clean, tidy and courteous?

* Are their collection vehicles correctly branded?

* Are they commercially competitive?

If you find a business waste disposal company that can tick all of these boxes, you can be sure that they will prove to be an excellent partner, saving your business both time and money.

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