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1-800-Recycling.com Takes a Closer Look at the World’s Landfills

In an exclusive article featured on 1-800-Recycling.com, journalist Elizah Leigh takes a closer look at seven of the planet’s largest landfills and the pros, cons and challenges facing each.1-800-Recycling.com is an interactive website dedicated to enhancing and democratizing the consumer recycling experience while making practical suggestions about green living. Leigh’s article on landfills is included […]

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1-800-Recycling.com Profiles Hartford, Salt Lake City and Tulsa

1-800-Recycling.com, an interactive website dedicated to enhancing and democratizing the consumer recycling experience while making practical suggestions about green living, has added three new regional recycling profiles, expanding on its series of blog articles about the unique recycling options and programs in various metropolitan areas throughout the US and Canada.The articles, titled “Local Focus: Changing […]

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1-800-Recycling.com Identifies State by State Recycling Guidelines

1-800-Recycling.com, an interactive website dedicated to enhancing and democratizing the consumer recycling experience while making practical suggestions about green living, has compiled an interactive map and complete searchable list of recycling guidelines for each state in the USA.An informative, clickable map and list of every state and its unique guidelines and recycling rules are now […]

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UrbanMining.org Offers Online Library of Green Articles

UrbanMining.org, an informational website dedicated to providing educational content for the public about the concept of urban mining, is now offering a free library of articles, news stories and how-to features about urban mining, recycling and the environment.Urban mining, the process of reclaiming compounds and elements from products, buildings and waste, is a growing trend […]

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1-800-Recycling.com Unveils More Regional Recycling Profiles

1-800-Recycling.com, an interactive website dedicated to enhancing and democratizing the consumer recycling experience while making practical suggestions about green living, continues to publish and expand upon its series of blog articles about the unique recycling options and programs in various metropolitan areas throughout the US and Canada.The articles, titled “Local Focus: Changing the World One […]

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Samsung Invites Central Valley Locals to Recycle Their Electronic Waste at No Charge to Consumers

Partnering with Electronic Recyclers International (ERI), Samsung Electronics has taken the initiative to stage a special E-Waste Collection Event this Saturday at no charge to consumers. ERI, the largest recycler of electronic waste in the nation, will provide its Fresno headquarters and facility as the location for an event designed to give the community at […]

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Electronic Recyclers International Shares Importance of Urban Mining at Colorado Association for Recycling Summit

Matt McLaughlin, Regional Sales Director for Electronic Recyclers International (ERI), the nation’s leading recycler of electronic waste, was among the panelists of a group discussion on the subject of urban mining yesterday at the Colorado Association for Recycling’s Annual Recycling Summit, held at the Pueblo Convention Center in Pueblo, Colorado.The Summit, now in its 23rd […]

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Discarded digital devices can retain sensitive data

Before recycling or selling your aging laptop or cellphone, you might want to consider smashing it to bits instead.That’s especially true for older Windows XP laptops and netbooks, or Android smartphones because they can be a gold mine to identity thieves, says McAfee identity theft expert Robert Siciliano. “I would beat the thing to death.”Apple’s […]

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How free recycling helps Best Buy stand out from its competition

Practically everyone has them. They’re those household items that shouldn’t go in the trash and can be really tough to recycle.It could be a cumbersome tube TV in the basement. Or maybe it’s a drawer full of out-of-date cellphones, or even that long dormant fridge in the garage.Retailing giant Best Buy will recycle them all […]

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Smog-Eating Buildings Gobble Up Pollutants

I can only think of one instance where smog is a good thing and his name is Bill Callahan. Otherwise, smog is a nefarious, asthma-causing byproduct of industry that is poisoning our planet and tainting our skies, on top of our lungs.Fortunately, Alcoa just unveiled their first commercial building installations of smog-eating architectural panels they […]

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