Archive for July, 2007

Wine Cork Recycling

Wine Cork Recycling By Jennifer Jordan When a person thinks of cork, they may think of a variety of things. Some people may think of the material used for bulletin boards, while some may think of material used for coasters. Others, thoroughly confused, may simply think of cork as the other white meat. Chances are, [...]

Battery Recycling: Help Your Environment

Battery Recycling: Help Your EnvironmentBy George Royal Batteries may contain harmful metals and chemicals such as nickel cadmium, alkaline, mercury, nickel metal hydride and lead acid, which can contaminate the environment if not disposed properly. For example, when batteries containing cadmium is used in landfills, they will eventually dissolve and release the toxic substance that [...]

Saving Gas

Saving Gas Means Making Right Turns For some time, United Parcel Service (UPS) has been making mostly right turns. Managers used to drive routes and plot how to increase the number of right turns in order to save gas and time for route drivers. Now computers plot routes. UPS saves three million gallons of fuel [...]

Two People Service 2,000 Homes Each Day

I was browsing the Internet to get information on trucks for recycling and came across this information from Christhcurch City, New Zealand: Low Entry Vehicle Notice the L.E.V. Two people can service 2,000 homes a day even while sorting. Of course, since the city provides curbside recycling, the trucks service all the homes on each [...]