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Simply recycle your old cell phone using our postage paid label and we'll make a donation that saves rainforest! It's easy and keeps hazardous materials out of the landfills! |
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Recycling
The average American generates 8 pounds
of garbage per day. You can help change that by
recycling - and these resources can
help.
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Resource Revival.
Get a package recently? Recycle those packing materials!
You can call 1-800-828-2214 for information on how to recycle these materials locally. There are lots of companies out there who would love to reuse them for you - especially foam peanuts. It is especially important to keep styrofoam and plastics out of landfills. Looking for a place to send those old CD's? Well,
if they are the type you have at the bank, you can send them to the
Red Jellyfish staff! If they are the type that AOL sends you weekly,
you can send them to: NESAR Systems or Digital Audio Disk
Corporation They turn
them into all kinds of great things, and keep them out of the
landfills!
Celtic Viking Furniture creates absolutely beautiful furniture from reclaimed timber. They dedicate themselves to the preservation of our environment through art history and culture- and stunning elm that was logged in the last millennium. Visit Celtic Viking Furniture online!
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YOUR OLD CELL Last year an estimated 40 million cell phones in the United States were discarded to be replaced with more current models, and this number is expected to grow. They contain many toxic materials, including mercury, cadmium and lead that end up in landfills and can threaten our water and air. Collective Good has a great program where you can download a free shipping label, send them your old phone, and they will recondition it for sale in developing countries! For a limited time Redjellyfish will make a donation that will purchase and protect 1,000 square feet of rainforest for each phone received by Collective Good. RECYCLE YOUR OLD SNEAKERS Everyone knows you can recycle paper, plastic and glass. Now, you may be able to more easily recycle used athletic shoes. Along with their aluminum cans, newspapers and other recyclables, Laguna Beach, Calif. residents will take bags of used athletic shoes out to the curb. As part of Nike’s Reuse-A-Shoe program, the city’s 9,800 households will serve as a pilot program aimed at recycling more athletic footwear. Recycled plastic bags were distributed to every Laguna Beach household in May. The bags are designed to hold five to seven pairs of athletic shoes, rubber banded together. On garbage days, residents put the shoe filled bags out on the curb for pick-up. Once the shoes are collected, the Nike Reuse-A-Shoe program will sort, clean, cut and grind them up to create a material called Nike Grind. “There's still value in product when people dispose of their shoes - either to other people or as Nike Grind,” said Bill Malloch, strategic director for footwear sustainability at Nike. “Through Reuse-A-Shoe we have developed a market for our recycled material. The shoes are processed, materials separated and granulated into Nike Grind. Nike Grind is then used in athletic courts, tracks, fields and playground surfaces.” Since the beginning of the program, more than 13 million pairs of athletic shoes have been recycled and Nike has donated 70 athletic surfaces to local communities. SUSTAINABLE ART
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RESOURCES:
RECYCLED PRODUCTS:
CLOTHING: MARKETPLACE: BUILDING SUPPLIES
REFRIGERATORS
AFFECT Junked refrigerators release ozone-depleting chemicals into the atmosphere, a Danish researcher said recently. Peter Kjeldsen, an associate professor at the Technical University of Denmark, said that substantial amounts of ozone-eating chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) are released when foam insulation in refrigerators is shredded. Writing in the July 15 issue of Environmental Science and Technology, Kjeldsen said more than eight million refrigerators and freezers are disposed of annually, and usually end up in a shredder. More than 500 grams of CFC-11 can be released by each refrigerator, he said. More than 4,000 tons of CFC emissions will be released into the global community over the next 300 years, he said. “The future atmospheric concentrations of CFC-11, and their effect on the ozone layer, will mainly depend on the continued release from insulation foams," Kjeldsen wrote. The problem can be avoided by disposing of the insulation prior to shredding as is the common practice in some countries, such as Denmark. --Andy Summa
BIODEGRADABLE CELL PHONES?
Its mobile phone division has already run tests on biodegradable clip-on covers, but the polymers needed more testing, the company said at a recent press conference. “It might be tomorrow, but it might be in two to three years,” Nokia principal scientist Kari Hiltunen told Reuters. “Our quality demands can’t be fulfilled with today’s biodegradable polymers. But development work continues with chosen partners.” Last year about 400 million phones were sold and this year the figure is expected to be similar, with about half of the phones sold to people who already own one, Reuters said. Nokia's main aim was to recycle or reuse all possible parts in cell phones, but for some materials this has not been possible, with a compost the end destination, Hiltunen said.
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Nokia, the world’s largest cell phone maker, hopes to develop a phone with biodegradable parts in the next few years.
| There is an excellent way to reuse those costly and wasteful printer ink cartridges. Visit www.inkjetrefills.com and start today! |
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“3R” tips for everyone…. (reduce,
re-use, recycle)
Re-use as much as you can! Recycling is excellent but before you put that jar in the recycling bin, try to think if you could reuse it for something else first. It saves more resources to re-use a plastic bag, than to recycle it and then get a new one on your next grocery shopping trip. |
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FACTS ABOUT RECYCLING:
It takes an aluminum can 200-500 years to disintegrate in a landfill. It is undetermined how long it takes a glass bottle to disintegrate, possibly up to 1 million years. Recycling one glass bottle saves enough energy to light a 100 watt bulb for 4 hours. China currently discards about 45 billion pairs of chopsticks every year, coming from as many as 25 million trees. 11% of America's garbage is food waste. 9% is compostable! 58% of U.S. newspapers are recycled. 500,000 trees could be saved from being cut down if every family in the United States recycled their newspaper. Americans go through on average 2.5 million plastic bottles per hour. Recycling one tin can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours! Ford Motor Company indicates that 75% of every vehicle is recyclable. Dishwashers use about 11 gallons of water. Hand washed dishes use up approximately 16 gallons. Packaging accounts for more than 30 percent of your garbage! Every year each person creates 360 pounds of food and yard waste. Glass never wears out -- it can be recycled forever. Every person in the United States receives junk mail that represents the equivalent of one and a half trees a year. Recycling one ton of paper saves three cubic YARDS of landfill space. Taking a bath, half full of water, uses around 20 gallons of water. However, an average length shower only uses about 13 gallons. Americans normally use about 70 gallons of water each day. If you recycle 1 ton of paper you save 17 trees
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