Lead Battery Recycling

Find out how lead acid batteries are recycled and prepared for reuse in this clip from Discovery Channel’s “HowStuffWorks” show. Video Rating: 4 / 5 Social Bookmarking

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Reusing and Recycling (Help the Environment)

Reusing and Recycling (Help the Environment) This is a series designed to make children more aware of the effect of their behaviour on the physical environment.It introduces the concept of caring for our environment to young children in an accessible, achievable, attractive and fun way. It introduces to children ideas on how to conserve and [...]

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Recycling Milk Jugs into Fencing

The process to recycle milk jugs & other plastics into a durable plastic wood fencing product. Video courtesy of WNEP’s Home & Backyard Show. Social Bookmarking

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Weekend Project: 2 Liter Bottle Recycling

Here are 8 ways to recycle a 2 liter soda bottle. Save the earth, recycle today! Did you know…Americans throw away 2 million plastic bottles an hour. We throw away… More» about 868 million pounds of it annually (about 75% of what’s produced). That’s an estimated 0000000 worth of plastic! Rocketboom Field Correspondent Ruud Elmendorp [...]

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Mesa College Recycling Program v2

Introduction to the new recycling program at Mesa College Social Bookmarking

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The Recycling Program of San Diego, California

Recycling is an endeavor that the city of San Diego has actively pursued for almost 20 years.  The city’s recycling program is under the general supervision of the San Diego Environmental Services Department.  Housed in Ridgehaven, which is considered to be one of the United States’ most energy efficient buildings, the San Diego Environmental Services [...]

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Styrofoam Recycling Machines : DigInfo

diginfo – movie.diginfo.tv Pana-Chemical exhibited two styrofoam recycling machines at the 2008 New Environmental Expo. The Clean Heat Packer is a machine suited for use in supermarkets, department stores, factories, and waste treatment facilities. When the machine detects that styrofoam has been thrown into the hopper, it reduces the volume of the waste to 1 [...]

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The Crayon Recycling Program – An Explanation

Have you ever been to a classroom, Sunday school room, or even in your own child’s room and found a box of crayon “bits”? Often without wrappers, these stubs are still technically useful, but they are hard to grip and no one knows what the colors are. Thus they tend to remain unused until they [...]

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The Economics of Recycling

Presented by Floy Lilley at the “Economics for High School Students” seminar. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama; 20 November 2009. Sponsored by Jeremy S. Davis. Social Bookmarking

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Recycling: are You Building a Wall?

Americans throw away enough paper in a year to build a wall 12 feet high from New York City to Los Angeles. This fact is from earth911.org, a public service Website that focuses on recycling issues. Now that’s a lot of paper! Despite the hype that computer makers fed us a few years ago, the [...]

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