Year: 2010

1-800-Recycling.com Teams with UsedCardboardBoxes.com

1-800-Recycling.com, an interactive nationwide website dedicated to enhancing and democratizing the consumer recycling experience, announced today that it has added UsedCardboardBoxes.com to its nationwide network of recycling resources.UsedCardboardBoxes.com takes an innovative approach to providing low-cost, earth-friendly moving boxes to its customers. The company rescues truckloads of quality used boxes from large manufacturers that might otherwise […]

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E-Waste Legislation Puts Recycling Costs On Manufacturers

In 2000 Massachusetts passed first-in-the-country legislation that banned cathode ray tubes (CRTs), which are found in traditional tube televisions, from being dumped in landfills or processed in incinerators.Dozens of other states followed suit requiring that the CRTs be properly recycled and processed.Scott Cassel, executive director and founder of the Product Stewardship Institute of Boston, said […]

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1-800-Recycling.com Helps Consumers Bundle Up the Green Way

As the nation braces for another round of unusually chilly weather and cold fronts, 1-800-Recycling.com, an interactive nationwide website dedicated to enhancing and democratizing the consumer recycling experience, has published an article on its blog providing tips on how to dress warmer and live greener at the same time.The article, titled “How to Dress Green […]

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Put e-waste in its right place

If all the Consumer Electronics Show coverage this week has you scheming to buy the new Google smart phone or a 3-D home theater system, you aren’t alone. Americans have an insatiable appetite for the latest and greatest gadgets.So what if we own an average of 23 consumer electronics per household. That doesn’t stop us […]

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Clear Channel’s “Green is Good” Kicks Off 2010 with All-Star Guest List

Clear Channel’s red hot “Green is Good” radio show has kicked off 2010 with an all-star roster of guests. The weekly half-hour interview program, co-hosted by John S. Shegerian, Chairman and CEO of Electronic Recyclers International (ERI), the nation’s leading recycler of electronic waste, and radio veteran Mike Brady, is now the country’s #1 green […]

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1-800-Recycling.com Shares Green New Year’s Resolutions

1-800-Recycling.com, an interactive nationwide website dedicated to enhancing and democratizing the consumer recycling experience, has published the first of several articles on its blog sharing its writers’ personal new year’s resolutions, and perhaps not surprisingly, they are all environment-related.The first article of the series, by 1-800-Recycling.com writer Joey Papa, is titled “My Green Resolutions” (http://1800recycling.com/2010/01/green-resolutions/) […]

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