Conserving resources and reducing waste through recycling and reuse of materials.
Recycling & Reuse
ReCART: Atlanta’s New Incentive-based Recycling Program
By: Genevieve Dennard - 
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Has anyone else in the Atlanta area noticed the big blue recycling bins sitting curbside in a few neighborhoods? The City of Atlanta has partnered with Rehrig Pacific, Coca Cola Recycling LLC, and rewards partner RecycleBank to implement an incentive-based recycling program known as ReCART – Read More »
USPS Has Got 2 Be Green?
By: Eloah James - Print This Post
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Today I 
have learned that the United States Postal Service is a lot more green than I ever knew. I was made aware first that in March of 2008, the USPS began an initiative partnered with Clover Technologies Group to make “it easier for customers to discard used or obsolete small electronics in an environmentally responsible way.” Read More »
2008 Overall Steel Recycling Rate Hits All-Time High
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Record Tonnages and Production Mean Record Levels of Production
PITTSBURGH, Pa. (Dec 11, 2009) - The Steel Recycling Institute (SRI) announced today that the overall steel recycling rate for the world’s, and America’s, most recycled material-steel-reached a record high of 83.3 percent. This means that more than 82 million tons of domestic steel scrap was charged into furnaces, both in the United States and abroad, to make new steel products to be used by the steel industry’s customers in meeting consumers’ needs. Read More »
