Why Should I Recycle

Greenbang likes the cheery, chirpy government recycling adverts voiced by Jane Horrocks. “Recycle,” says perky Jane. “The possibilities are endless!” A nice antidote to the scary doomladen prophecies of environmental Armageddon that Greenbang is more used to. Recycling a glass bottle, says Horrocks, saves enough energy to power a washing machine for 10 minutes. But there’s now even more stuff you can do with your recycled bottles: HP has made an “engineering breakthrough” — that’s what they...Read Full Story

We're back on track this week with the 2nd part to our small series "Good to Be Green". If you missed the 1st part, you can follow along here. Last week we discussed The Why's of going green. This week, let's talk about The How to's. One of the most important & easiest ways to start is to recycle: Definition of Recycle: taking a product or material at the end of its useful life and turning it into a usable raw material to make another product. There are 4 main Categories to recycling...Read Full Story

     I'll be honest, I'm not an environmental fanatic, but I do what I can to cut down on excessive waste in my life. As you can imagine, I take advantage of the normal every day means of recycling. I easily put out four times more recyclables than garbage by the curb each week, I sign up for paperless billing with my utilities and credit card companies, and if a product comes in a useful container, it doesn't leave my home.      When it comes to Med/Grad School (I'm an MD/PhD student). I...Read Full Story

Recycling is becoming a way of life. Most people know about the 3Rs: Reduce, Re-use, and Recycle. And many of us make an effort to reduce the amount of waste we create and recycle a large portion of what’s left. And with spiralling gas and electricity costs, it only makes sense to try to conserve energy. What happens in your kitchen? The most commonly performed tasks will include food preparation, food storage, and entertaining. And each gives you opportunities to reduce waste, re-use and...Read Full Story

The city plans to sort through curbside trash to make sure residents are recycling and fine them $100 if they don't. The move is part of a high-tech collection system the city with new trash and recycling carts embedded with radio frequency identification chips and bar codes. The chips will allow city workers to monitor how often residents roll carts to the curb for collection. If a chip show a recyclable cart hasn't been brought to the curb in weeks, a trash supervisor will sort through...Read Full Story