Moving is quite the packing effort. We’ve all been there before: when you finally finishing unpacking and the cardboard boxes and papers are laying around your new home in a messy heap. In this situation, or any other where you’re faced with a large amount of paper and cardboard waste, the question becomes what to …
Garbage Vs. Recycled: What Happens to Paper & Cardboard? Read More »
Online purchases now make up 9.1% of all U.S. retail sales, according to the Department of Commerce. All those sales mean more individual boxes being shipping to customers’ homes — and in turn more boxes that need recycling. Cardboard is a great material to recycle because it’s clean, easy to reprocess and every ton of it that’s …
Break it down; The Inconvenient, Dirty, Nasty Shipping box. Read More »
Now that Christmas has passed and Christmas presents have been unwrapped, all that wrapping paper has to go somewhere. What about the recycling bin? How does that market work when it comes to gift wrap? When a piece of used gift wrap gets recycled, a collector picks it up, bundles it with a lot more …
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Heather Repennin, vice president of the Los Angeles Bureau of Public Works refers to herself as a “wastehead.” “It’s someone who is completely immersed in discussions, operations and policy around the waste sector,” Repenning said. In her job, Repennin helps set waste and recycling policy for the city of Los Angeles. “Welcome to the world …
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This is by far my biggest pet peeve when shopping with most retailers online. For all of the investment that went into creating compelling product shots, fancy Facebook ads, and something that is visually interesting that gets me excited to buy it, why drop the ball when the product gets to my door? For example, here …
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This is by far my biggest pet peeve when shopping with most retailers online. For all of the investment that went into creating compelling product shots, fancy Facebook ads, and something that is visually interesting that gets me excited to buy it, why drop the ball when the product gets to my door? For example, here …
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It’s clear that the world’s current methods of dealing with our waste are not sustainable. Landfills are not a solution. The question is, what do we do? We should seek to end the use of single-use plastics altogether and find products that can be reused. Brands can help make this a reality and make recycling …
Author: Chris Costa (NEWS CENTER Maine) Published: 6:38 PM EDT July 13, 2021 Updated: 6:39 PM EDT July 13, 2021 MAINE, USA — A new law in Maine will shift the cost of recycling from cities and towns and place the onus on the corporations that use certain packaging materials in shipping and packaging …
By Winston Choi-Schagrin July 21, 2021 Recycling, that feel-good moment when people put their paper and plastic in special bins, was a headache for municipal governments even in good times. And, only a small amount was actually getting recycled. Then, five years ago, China stopped buying most of America’s recycling, and dozens of cities across the …
Maine Will Make Companies Pay For Recycling. Here’s How It Works. Read More »
WSP ships thousands of corrugated cases of wiring looms to REDARC annually. In the past, the cases were taped closed. When REDARC received them, the tape was cut off with knives and all four top flaps were also cut off to facilitate ease of access to the components inside. The flaps and the cases were …
