Author: Beverly Clarke
RECYCLING ALL TYPES OF PAPER
Let’s assume that you don’t print out the North American average of thirty plus pages per day or buy the morning newspaper or even buy highly prepackaged goods at the grocery store, you could be astonished at just how much paper waste you render in a given twelvemonth period. Recycling paper results in monumental energy, fresh water, carbon dioxide and natural resource savings – as much as seventy-five percent in many cases.
Paper also happens to be one of the most recyclable items. Clean office paper can now be easily separated from its inks and toners, with the resulting pulp being employed in a broad assortment of products, including new paper that’s nearly indistinguishable from the old. More often, however, paper is combined together with news print and additional kinds of subordinate grade paper products to produce a lower-grade or “down-cycled” type of paper product. You will be able to achieve a big benefit by recycling what paper you are able to and composting the balance as add-ons of “brown matter” that keeps the high nitrogen kitchen waste adequately provided with carbon.
REDUCING THE WASTE MATERIAL YOU BUY
The most crucial component of the recycling power structure is the reduction of waste as a number one priority. This is most frequently managed by devoting rigorous care to the things you buy. You can establish a campaign to buy items with minimal packaging. While such decisiveness often times requires you to make a primal shifting in what motivates your buying
urge, such a thoughtful carry through is frequently attained when monetary resources are low. Let packaging comprise part of your buying decisions even as much as what’s inside. There’s just about always a low-packaging item. Select packaging that can be composted at home (like paper or twine) or recycled as often as feasible over plastics that will persist for hundreds of years.
Determining just how to make more of the items you utilize in your day-to-day life for yourself makes an enormous impact on how much rubbish for which you will even need to project. Those who produce and prepare their own food, composting the leftovers and returning them back to the soil as compost, have little (if no) trash to be concerned about.
February 05 2009 | Recycling and Recycling Guidelines | Comments Off
By: Daniel Johansson
Recycling is the buzz word of the 21st Century, with everyone eager to prove their green credentials and help cut carbon emissions. And when it comes to disposing of old or redundant computers it is no different; whether you run a business or you have equipment at home it’s all about computer recycling! But, it’s much more than ensuring that you look to be doing the right thing; refurbishing and recycling computers forms a very important part of a sustainable waste strategy. It is also an effective way of ensuring that computers are re-used in a socially responsible manner within the UK or used to aid Third World development as they can also be exported to countries in need.
Following the introduction of the WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) EEC Directive which became effective in the UK on 2 January 2007, the disposal of computers is now strictly regulated. Disposing of old computers also makes good business sense. Most computer recycling firms will pick up your old equipment for free, if you are replacing it or it was sold to you after 13 August 2005 and/or you are replacing it with new equivalent equipment. You will have to pay for disposal if the equipment you are disposing of is not to be replaced. There are also other occasions when you must pay for disposal, if in doubt you should contact a reputable computer disposal company who will be able to advise you of your legal obligations.
As well as giving sound advice the computer disposal company can arrange to remove your equipment. They will also ensure that all information held on the computer memory is permanently wiped from the hard disks and will provide an audit report showing exactly what has happened to your equipment; how it has been processed and where it has gone. So, whether it has been recycled and sent out to other locations or totally destroyed it will be listed on your audit report.
If you do not want to use a commercial company for your computer disposal organisations such as Oxfam will collect unwanted but working computers from businesses in Great Britain. They refurbish the machines and sell them on using the profits to support their charity work. However, you must make sure that you delete all your sensitive information before releasing the machines, and you won’t get a full audit report, but you will have done your bit for the third world!
Although the WEEE regulations became law on 1 January 2007, the phasing of the legislation means that recycling of household goods will not be covered until 1 July 2007. But, businesses are now liable so you must be aware of the regulations as they affect your business and your liability when it comes to the disposal of your computer and electrical equipment.
It is up to you to ensure that your business recycles computers in an environmentally friendly way, whether through a commercial organisation or through a charitable donation. Either way you will be helping do your bit to make this world a greener and better place.
December 26 2008 | Computer Recycling and Recycling and Recycling Guidelines | Comments Off