New Jersey is kicking off an education campaign called Avoid the Spark to try and prevent fires caused by rechargeable batteries being placed in the recycling stream with cans, bottles and paper. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE….recycle these batteries correctly. Go to the links in this post to learn more and please share with friends and neighbors. […]
Chemical recycling of plastics has been discussed for some time. On one side of the argument is the premise that this form of recycling will allow us to reclaim all types of plastics and eliminate consumer confusion when it comes to recycling. This would allow all plastic to be placed in the recycling bins and […]
As reported in Resource Recycling, Oregon has passed a comprehensive piece of legislation that places the cost and responsibility for recyclability directly where it belongs; on the manufacturers! While there are elements of Oregon’s recycling and EPR laws that I do not agree with (namely deposit laws on easily recycled items), the state deserves credit […]
This debate is now raging in the U.S. and Europe. We see that in New Jersey there is an entire argument that we are “rewarding polluters” by awarding renewable energy status to Resource Recovery plants. The debate is now raging in the EU. The attached articles give a good outline of the issue…and here are […]
This sentence says it all on microplastics. “The staggering amount of microplastics we found likely means that no river, lake or stream is safe from this increasingly common contaminant.” Franz Savitz, PennEnvironment Research & Policy Center. Let me scare you some more. Rutgers is now studying the impact on marine species that we consume….including, blue […]