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It’s that time of year again, the holiday season, which means wrapping gifts is high on the agenda. The only problem is that the usual way of wrapping gifts is extremely wasteful; witness the huge mounds of wrapping paper left over after the gift exchange, hardly used, that will now be thrown away. We can [...]
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Recycling for kids is a fun way to get your children thinking about their environment while also fostering creativity. One could even say that recycling is the gateway activity into a life-long commitment to the environment and here’s why. A couple of years ago I heard a gentleman talk about children’s attitudes toward the environment. [...]
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One of the challenges with computer recycling is that the various components are made of a variety of materials. As these materials are disposed of or recycled in different ways, they need to be separated, which makes computer recycling labour intensive. Luckily, computers contain lots of recoverable materials – including copper, silver, gold – that [...]
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If you are the go-to person about waste disposal in your household, like I am, you are likely faced with the question, “what can I recycle?” on a regular basis. Now, wouldn’t it be lovely if there was a universal answer to this question. There isn’t, however, because this is completely dependent on where you [...]
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Over 1.1 billion inkjet cartridges are used each year globally. Despite it being extremely easy to recycle ink cartridges, a mere 30% of these are recycled. That’s a lot of waste. The plastics that go into printer cartridges are high grade engineered plastics, which take around 1,000 years to degrade. They are petroleum based, which [...]
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