From the Dunkin Donuts Web Site: Why doesn’t Dunkin’ Donuts use recycled paper coffee cups? Dunkin’ Donuts is committed to selling fresh brewed coffee in containers that are safe for the consumer. Our foam cup is one of the strongest in the industry and it insulates better than paper cups we have tested. By using […]
We read a good deal about zero waste initiatives. Two different articles show how confusing this can be. Some generators divert as much waste as possible to resource recovery plants, thus avoiding landfills. Others are moving to technologies that recover more materials through more aggressive source separation and recycling; then using anerobic digesters to make […]
NJSPOTLIGHT offered one of the more in depth articles on recycling that I have read in the past several months. There are several key elements raised in this article about New Jersey’s recycling program. 1. The Christie Administration must stop diverting money from New Jersey’s recycling program that we pay for in our solid waste […]
I have written about solar panel recycling before as a concern…As a society, we often put production ahead of end of life use and reuse issues. Just take a look at nuclear waste, solid waste and any other issue where we make a product. Solar panels are certainly something to think about… As noted in […]
To me, the title is a contradiction in terms. By its very nature, bottled water consumes more resources to produce, requires a large carbon footprint and in the end, not matter how the container is designed, creates a waste stream. I give the owner credit for attempting to make a container that has a smaller […]