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Recycling in China?

Not much apparently. Perhaps we could ship a few billion of those blue recycling bins that are now so prevalent around America. Landfills are so 1980. China has such low labor costs sorting trahs for recycling could even be done by hand. Bet they don't even...

Tags: China, Recycling, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-11

Ban that (ink) spot: HP develops technology to speed paper recycling

Have you ever been on the beach reading a magazine and wound up with smudgy, inky hands because of how the ink reacted to your sunscreen? I never really thought about it before, but getting the ink out of paper is actually pretty hard, and as companies...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Recycling, Ink, Document Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-09-24

Search engine lets you earn 'swag' on behalf of reforestation program

I am sure you have heard about or maybe even used some of the Web search engine sites that will donate something somewhere if you use their lesser-known technology instead of uber-search engines like Google, Yahoo or Bing. One example is GoodSearch, which will give money to your specified registered...

Tags: Search Engine, Recycling, Redemption, Swagbucks.com, Games, Personal Technology, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-08-30

Nuclear recycling--a thing of the past?

Nuclear recycling--a thing of the past?Nuclear power is our ONLY long-term source of powerWhen it comes down to it that is reasonably 'inexhaustible' and 'able to meet our energy demands'.Sure, we should be cutting down or trying to cut down on the amount of energy that we are using.... but...

Tags: uranium, nuclear energy, recycling

Discussion threads 2009-07-07

Nuclear recycling--a thing of the past?

Nature.com is reporting President Barack Obama's administration quietly cancelled plans for a large-scale facility to recycle nuclear fuel. The move may prove a fatal blow to the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership GNEP set up by previous President. You may have to pay to read the entire Nature.com...

Tags: Recycling, Nature.com, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-07-07

Death of an analog TV

Greenpeace is predicting a spike in electronic waste as the U.S. shifts to digital television. CNET News follows a TV as it gets recycled and offers guidance on what to consider when getting rid of an old TV.

Tags: CNET News, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, News, e-waste, televisions, hdtv, recycling, china, waste, tv's, plasma, lcd, california

Videos 2009-06-09

Illustrating the dangers: Why the e-waste problem must be addressed

The Basel Action Network BAN is reporting another instance of electronics collected as part of a charity recycling event that have allegedly been redirected into trash shipments meant for developing countries. The event was hosted in the Pittsburgh area by the Humane Society and the waste handler...

Tags: Recycling, E-waste, Basel Action Network, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-05-27

YouRenew wants to pay you for recycling your tech

It's good to know that many entrepreneurs are still molded at an early age, despite all the doom and gloom that young people have been pelleted with for months along with the rest of us. Yale University student Rich Littlehale, 22, has founded a company, YouRenew, that...

Tags: Phone, Recycling, Cell Phone, YouRenew, Rich Littlehale, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-05-13

Green Tech: TVs, laptops, desktops, cell phones, and even bicycles

With April just about over, all of the Earth Day talk may be forgotten along with all of the tips you learned for keeping the planet green. But, there are ways to help the environment in your everyday life, which includes your daily use of consumer electronics and tech gadgets....

Tags: Desktop, Phone, Consumer Electronics, Green Technology, Recycling, Cell Phone, Electronics, TV, Photograph, Laptop Computer, Jennifer Bergen

Blog posts 2009-04-30

EPA announces nationwide mobile phone recycling campaign

Ready to upgrade your mobile phone? Next week, you can get rid of the old one responsibly as part of National Cell Phone Recycling Week, being sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency from April 6 to April 12. The EPA is working with some of the biggest...

Tags: Phone, Mobile, Recycling, Cell Phone, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-04-02

Ricoh contributes work around cartridge recycling to Eco-Patent organization

Printer and office systems giant Ricoh is among the latest high-tech vendors to offer up an environmentally friendly patent to the Eco-Patent Commons, which will work to make it available to the public domain. Ricoh is contributing its work related to the recycling of removable imaging cartridges...

Tags: Cartridge, Ricoh Corp., Recycling, Document Management, Printers, Fax, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware, Peripherals, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-03-23

Crossing the sea on a bottle raft

David de Rothschild is preparing to sail from San Francisco to Australia in a raft made of 12,000 recycled bottles. Among other things, he is hoping to convince the world to take better care of its waste.

Tags: Bottle, News, environment, recycling, plastic bottles, boats, green

Videos 2009-03-17

Rethinking recycling?

Rethinking recycling?fresherjobThere are numerous companies which offer fresher jobs in India. No doubt, India is a big country and it is now developing country. It has a great group of young persons graduating out of colleges every year in huge numbers. These graduates are professional degree holders largely in Engineering,...

Tags: recycling

Discussion threads 2009-03-12

Rethinking recycling?

Recycling as a profitable industry could be in trouble. In Australia they're now stockpiling the waste. In China recycling companies are hitting the wall and may stop importing our precious American trash. Perhaps we should stop burning up all that fossil fuel to send our used paper...

Tags: Recycling, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-03-12

More options for technology recycling coming your way, whether you like it or not

Which works best for getting people to actually take advantage of recycling initiatives: a carrot or a stick? The reason many high-tech companies, especially those of the consumer electronics variety are developing recycling strategies is usually tied to the fines they'll pay if they don't get involved....

Tags: Recycling, Electronics, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-03-07

California becomes official dry state

No, they haven't banned wine and beer. But they're close to shutting down water taps in the Golden State, now turned a dusty tan. Today's California's governor officially declared a statewide emergency due to a three-year drought. He has asked urban water districts for conservation measures and...

Tags: California, Recycling, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-02-27

Not too late to recycle your incandescent holiday lights

Has it been too cold to take down those holiday lights? Or, just feel like doing a little spring cleaning before the end of February? It's not too late to add to the mess of incandescent lights that have been collected for recycling by HolidayLEDs.com. ...

Tags: Light, Recycling, Construction, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-02-06

(Cleaning out the wire box)

Cleaning out the wire boxDon't trash -- recycleWe are moving towards being green, this includes recyclingWe all have them.Also, forget recycling, toss the ones that are old and broken, but make sure you don't throw out the commodore 64 rf adapter!If I toss it, what will collect the dust?You are...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Network technology, wire box, dollar store, cable

Discussion threads 2009-01-20

Where to take your tired tech, or recycling redux

Everything has its season, and recycling interest is no different. Maybe it's because everyone is trying to make room in their houses after the holiday gifts pour in. Or maybe it's some sort of New Year's resolution. Or just because everyone is issuing press releases tied to...

Tags: Consumer Electronics, Recycling, Electronics, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-01-09

Foam finds new life

At the AlwaysOn Venture Summit in Half Moon Bay, Calif., J. Brian Hennessy, chief marketing officer of Mobius Technologies, explains how the company has found a way to turn industrial waste--things like old insulation and the foam from car seats--into resins and glues. These glues are strong enough to be...

Tags: Car, Manufacturing, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, green, recycling, waste, industrial, chemical, glue, foam, building

Videos 2008-12-05