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Thursday, July 29, 2010
Eco-Friendly Dry Cleaning Service Reduces Waste with Electronic Recycling, Innovative Cleaning Methods and Green Office Supplies
Posted by: Brad Roderick
Green Results
Hangers Cleaners initially came to life when Owner Joe Runyan became dissatisfied with cleaning materials on the market and turned to a green concept, utilizing carbon that would revolutioize the industry. “I was hooked,” said Runyan. “So, I started a green dry cleaner.” Shortly thereafter, Runyan opened the first eco-friendly dry cleaning business in Kansas City of its kind.
Green Success
Although Runyan has not been able to measure specific green results, it is clear that grenk has played a vital role in his business and promotion of green initiatives. “It is just a part of our overall effort. Our employees and guests see that we are ‘walking the talk’ when it comes to green,” Runyan said.
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Recycling Ink and Toner Cartridges to Help Eliminate E-Waste from Landfills
A big thanks to the Recycler, a trade magazine that focuses on toner and inkjet cartridge recycling, for recently featuring InkCycle for its use of YouTube to encourage cartridge recycling.
Brad Roderick, executive vice president of InkCycle in Lenexa, Kansas, reviews the process of recycling ink and toner cartridges at InkCycle to help eliminate e-waste from landfills.
Roderick explains that the first steps include taking the toners apart to see what’s inside of them, replacing the critical wear components, cleaning out excess toner and getting them back to a state where they are ready for repair and refurbishment.
Roderick discusses the final step of recycling an ink and toner cartridge after one is placed into a live printer and prints a series of pages to ensure that when it’s taken out of the box that the print performance at the end of the production process is up to the standards that will satisfy the consumer.
InkCycle produces a recycled ink and toner cartridge called grenk. Grenk is designed to leave the smallest environmental footprint possible.
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Nike Reuses Plastic Bottles for 2010 World Cup Soccer Uniforms
Posted by: Brad Roderick
Teams from around the world have sported Nike uniforms this year at the 2010 World Cup, but what many people don’t know is what those uniforms were made from. I would like to share an article from greenopolis.com, by Trish Smith, about Nike’s eco-friendly World Cup uniforms made from recycled plastic.
Nike Creates 2010 World Cup Soccer Uniforms Made from Recycled Plastic Bottles
Whether you play soccer on a professional team or as part of an intramural sport, or even if you just watch your kids play the sport, you’ve got to appreciate Nike’s new green initiative for this year’s World Cup. The eco-friendly initiative: uniforms made from discarded plastic bottles!
That’s right all you David Beckham and Cristiano Ronaldo fans! This year will be the first time ever that World Cup players will be sporting these uniforms, which are all made from discarded plastic bottles found in landfills in Japan and Taiwan.
According to an article in Ecouterre: “Each shirt comprises up to eight recycled plastic bottles, a move that reduces energy consumption by up to 30 percent compared with manufacturing virgin polyester. Besides saving raw materials, Nike also diverted nearly 13 million plastic bottles (or nearly 560,000 pounds of polyester waste) from the landfill – enough to cover more than 29 football pitches.”
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Hollywood, Florida Citizens Launch Recycle Back Partnership with 1,500 Businesses
Posted by: Brad Roderick
It is always refreshing to see a community step up its recycling efforts in order to protect the environment. In Hollywood, Fla. residents have increased their recycling 130 percent in order to gain points through a company called the Recycle Back. The company allows participants to purchase goods from more than 1,500 local and national businesses by trading in points for coupons. Here is a video from the latimes.com about the Recycle Back program.
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
E-Waste: How to Recycle Ink and Toner Cartridges
Brad Roderick, executive vice president of InkCycle in Lenexa, Kansas, reviews the process of recycling ink and toner cartridges at InkCycle to help eliminate e-waste from landfills.
Roderick explains that the first steps include taking the toners apart to see what’s inside of them, replacing the critical wear components, cleaning out excess toner and getting them back to a state where they are ready for repair and refurbishment.
Roderick discusses the final step of recycling an ink and toner cartridge after one is placed into a live printer and prints a series of pages to ensure that when it’s taken out of the box that the print performance at the end of the production process is up to the standards that will satisfy the consumer.
InkCycle produces a recycled ink and toner cartridge called grenk. Grenk is designed to leave the smallest environmental footprint possible.
Friday, June 18, 2010
Earth911 Named Official Recycling Partner of the Consumer Electronics Association
Posted by: Brad Roderick
Here is an article from Earth911.com about their announcement to be the recycling partner of the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). Through the partnership, both the CEA and Earth911 hope to make electronic information more accessible.
Earth911 Named Official Recycling Partner of the Consumer Electronics Association
(Scottsdale, AZ and Arlington, VA) – The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)® and Earth911 today announced a partnership to make information about electronics recycling easier to access than ever. The largest trade association promoting growth in the consumer electronics industry, CEA will work with Earth911 as the official recycling partner of CEA and the International CES® to bring new e-cycling resources to both mobile and web platforms.
“CEA has worked diligently over many years to increase consumer awareness of the importance of recycling their electronics products,” said Gary Shapiro, president and CEO of CEA. “We’re pleased to expand that effort through the resources available from Earth911.”
“Earth911 is thrilled to have the opportunity to continue to educate consumers about electronics recycling, in tandem with the leading industry association,” said Corey Lambrecht, president of Earth911. “Additionally, we look forward to working with the forward-thinking members of CEA to enhance the availability of electronics recycling resources for their customers.”
Friday, June 18, 2010
6 Ways to Reuse Scraps
Posted by: Brad Roderick
I would like to share an article from yahoo.com, by Ronnie Citron-Fink, about how these six items, made from scraps, can help reduce landfill waste.
Six ingenious things to make from scraps
Breathe new life into old objects and reduce landfill waste by diverting leftover odds and ends that would be relegated to the dumpster into useful items.
Call it repurposing, call it recrafting, call it creative reuse, or call it trash transformed. No matter what you call it, this concept of “cradle to cradle” is one of the tenants of green living. It means that a product’s lifecycle doesn’t have to end up forever rotting away in a landfill. It can be endlessly reincarnated into useful items.
We EcoNesters talk a lot about purging clutter, living slower, donating and thrifting, and living minimally. So, this post is going to take a different tact. It isn’t going to tell you that hording some things isn’t such a bad idea. In fact, hold onto those scraps.
But, wait a minute … scraps are junk, right? Not so fast. Scrap items can be put to use and given a “life after waste.” In fact, the end products of materials are often called salvage. That’s a great word for things that are “saved from the ruins” and eventually end up in dumpsters.
If you’re like me, you’ve got all sorts of scraps hanging around just ready for a new practical renaissance of sorts. Think of it as part of the transformation of renewal for living a more resourceful life.
Scrap renewal projects using…
1. Yarn
If you read my posts with any regularity, you know that knitting is my number one DIY project of choice. Yarn scraps abound in the needle world, and this pin cushion from Craft Leftovers via the Craftzine blog is perhaps one of the best uses I’ve seen for small amounts of yarn scraps.
2. Wood
Keep those wood scraps out of the burn pile and make a beautiful and unique scrap wood cutting board from instructables.
Thursday, June 10, 2010
New York Passes Strict Electronic Waste Management Law
Posted by: Brad Roderick
I would like to share an article written by Amanda Willis at earth911.com about the innitiative New York has taken to combat the issue of electronic waste.
New York Passes Strict E-waste Law
It has been hailed as “the most progressive, best researched e-waste bill in the country” by the Natural Resources Defense Council.
While New York is the 23rd state to pass an e-waste law, this new legislation is more stringent, holding both manufacturers and consumers responsible for disposing electronic waste.
Starting in April 2011, manufacturers across the state must offer free programs allowing consumers to drop of their items for proper disposal. Manufacturers will also be prohibited from dumping e-waste in landfills. That same rule will go into effect for consumers starting Jan. 15, 2015.
According to The New York Times, the state will mandate the amount of electronic waste each company is required to recycle or reuse annually. This number is based on each manufacturer’s market share of electronics sales in New York.
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Computer Recycling: Hazardous Waste Recycled
Posted by: Brad Roderick
I would like to share a refreshing article from emagazine.com, written by Sven G. Simonsen, about Norway and its efforts to cut down on electronic waste.
Electronic Recycling Done Right
Norway Leads the World in Collecting and Recycling E-Waste
While consumers across the world increasingly recycle their old batteries, coffee makers and MP3 players, most electric and electronic waste from offices and factories still ends up in landfills. But in Norway, an industry-run program now collects 98% of such waste.
Industrial machines, high voltage equipment, escalators, pumps, generators and other machinery often pack more environmentally harmful materials than consumer goods. But governments have so far mostly failed to establish systems to take care of such waste. As a result, enormous amounts of hazardous materials and greenhouse gases are released into nature.
Ten years ago, that was also the case for Norway. Only 5% of electric and electronic (EE) waste from enterprises was collected. But in 1999, a program negotiated between the industry and the government came into effect, which in four years boosted the ratio to over 80%.