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San Francisco Achieves 77% Landfill Diversion Rate, the Highest of Any U.S. City

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Filed under  //   cities   landfills   recycling   waste+management  
Posted August 31, 2010
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New Recycled Ceramic Tile from Fireclay

Fireclay Tile, a manufacturer of recycled content ceramic tiles in California, recently launched a new offering called the Express Series Quickship Tile.  It's made with more than 62% locally sourced recycled content and, according to the company, contains "more post-consumer and pre-consumer waste than any other tile on the market."
via jetsongreen.com

Filed under  //   Fireclay+Tile   recycling   reuse  
Posted August 13, 2010
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Furniture Made from Undesirable Materials

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Filed under  //   recycling   upcycling  
Posted July 26, 2010
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Cover Your Walls With Recycled Newspapers [core77]

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Probably costs a fortune but it looks great. We're going with a zero VOC clay paint for our interior walls.
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"Using an age-old technology of upcycling old newspapers, 100% real newsprint strips are handwoven on a loom and then paperbacked to make Newsworthy suitable for the wall."

Filed under  //   recycling   upcycling   Weitzner  
Posted July 24, 2010
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Vintage Kodachrome Slides As Nostalgic Curtain

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Filed under  //   design   folk+art   recycling   upcycling  
Posted July 19, 2010
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After 6,000 miles, Plastiki defying its doubters

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"This was the Plastiki, a vessel made entirely of plastic, including 12,000 recycled bottles, built to showcase the world's garbage problem. It is the brainchild of banking heir and expedition leader David de Rothschild.
That was more than three months ago, and in the weeks since, the boat has bobbed and weaved its way across well more than 6,000 miles of open ocean on its way Down Under."

Filed under  //   bottled+water   ocean+conservation   plastiki   recycling  
Posted July 14, 2010
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13 Incredible Recycled Objects

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Filed under  //   recycling  
Posted May 12, 2010
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Greenopia -- 5 Awesomely Odd Ways to Recycle

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Filed under  //   Greenopia   recycling   upcycling  
Posted May 11, 2010
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For Tire Recyclers, a Holy Grail [Green Blog - NYTimes

Carbon Green, a company based in Slovakia, asserts it has cracked the code.

In a recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Carbon Green said it had developed an economically viable method for processing scrap tires using pyrolysis.

The company, which has raised about $75 million from its management team and investors, already has a commercial-scale tire processing plant operating in Cyprus and is scouting locations for two factories in the United States.

via green.blogs.nytimes.com

Filed under  //   landfills   recycling  
Posted May 3, 2010
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Target Stores Earth Day Event Causes Concern

 

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
 
TARGET STORES WON’T TELL PUBLIC WHERE THEIR COLLECTED ELECTRONIC WASTE WILL GO
 
Earth Day Collection Program Lacks Transparency
 
April 21, 2010.  Seattle, WA.  Customers hoping to take advantage of Target’s new Earth Day 2010 recycling program are faced with more questions than answers. Having learned that all recycling is not necessarily responsible recycling, conscientious consumers have been asking their local Target stores, “Where will my things be recycled?”  The usual answer they receive from Target employees? “We don’t know.”
 
A growing number of consumers are realizing that buying a product means taking full responsibility for that product, even when it is no longer useful. This is particularly important for goods like electronics that contain hazardous materials that are detrimental to the environment when disposed. Exposes on 60 Minutes, Frontline, 20/20 and others have documented how most electronics collected for ‘recycling’ in the US are shipped to developing countries where the hazardous materials are destroying the environment and poisoning workers and residents.
 
Toxic trade watchdog group the Basel Action Network (BAN) was alerted to the problem when e-Scrap News, a trade journal for the electronics recycling industry, reported that Target “did not say” who would be doing their electonic waste recycling. BAN aimed to find out if anybody in Target stores or headquarters would say.    
 
BAN volunteers made inquiries in person and by phone to Target stores in 12 different US cities and to Target’s Minneapolis headquarters. In every case, Target employees were either unwilling or unable to say what would happen to the toxic e-waste Target is collecting nationwide.  According to BAN, this lack of transparency about how the used electronics would be recycled is alarming because BAN estimates that about 80 percent of what consumers deliver for recycling in programs such as these is exported to developing countries.
 
“There’s no good reason for hiding responsible recycling, so Target’s lack of transparency is troubling,” says Sarah Westervelt, BAN’s e-Stewardship Policy Director.  “People asked the same simple question over and over again in Target stores across the country and just got the same run around.”
 
In 2008, the Government Accountability Office echoed BAN’s concerns and reported that the US government does not adequately regulate and control irresponsible and environmentally damaging toxic e-waste exports.  Private data is often left on hard drives and phones, creating opportunities for fraud or identity theft.  Or the waste can be diverted to municipal landfills or dangerous prison operations.
 
BAN recommends that the public always avoid any e-waste collection program that will not provide data destruction or assure full transparency and instead use recyclers that will not export hazardous e-waste to developing countries.   Last week, BAN launched its e-Stewards Certification program to identify recyclers who manage e-waste in a globally responsible manner.  That program has been endorsed by over a dozen leading corporations and nearly 70 environmental groups worldwide.
 
“The public needs to be vigilant not only with Target, but with any e-waste collection event or program,” said Westervelt.
 
BAN documented public inquiries to Target Stores in the following cities: Houston, Texas; West Houston, Texas; San Francisco, California; Westminster, Colorado; Atlanta, Georgia; Granger, Indiana; Vestal, New York; Portland, Oregon; Dickson City, Pennsylvania; Tacoma, Washington;  Seattle, Washington and the Minnesota, Target headquarters. 
 
For more information Contact:
 
Sarah Westervelt, BAN e-Stewardship Policy Director, e-Mail: swestervelt@ban.org, Telephone:  206-652-5555
 
Lauren Roman, BAN e-Stewards Business Director, e-Mail: lroman@ban.org, Telephone: 973-224-7632
 
For Target Store Volunteer Call Summary Log Sheet: www.ban.org/Library/targetlog.pdf
 
To contact any of the volunteers to hear their story, call BAN, 206-652-5555.
 
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Filed under  //   Basel+Action+Network   recycling   Target  
Posted April 21, 2010
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