Sustainable Solutions You Can Use at Home
Companies can make a large impact on the environment by using environmentally sound practices, but individuals can also make a difference on a smaller scale. Creating waste and using too many resources are problems for the environment, but you can reduce the impact of both these by finding sustainable solutions to everyday environmental situations in…
How Sustainability Can Save Your Company Money
Sustainability helps the environment with renewal energy, recycling and other methods of reducing a company’s carbon footprint. Being greener or environmentally friendly also helps a company to save money. By cutting costs on utility bills and trash removal, a company has fewer expenses so profits are bigger. There are a few methods staff and management…
How Can My Company Lower its Dependence on Plastics?
Do you know it takes plastic at least 1,000 years to start decomposing in a landfill? Consider that 2.5 million plastic water bottles get tossed in the trash every single hour, and it quickly becomes clear that we have a plastic waste removal problem. If you are trying to reduce plastic waste in your office,…
How is the Cost of My Company’s Trash Removal Determined?
When it comes to trash removal, costs depend on two major factors – the volume of trash that will be removed and the contents of the trash. While general costs are usually determined by free market competition by competing waste removal services, there are areas where the local government puts caps on profit margins for…
Tips On Managing the Waste of a Construction Project
Construction projects produce a lot of waste and debris that the company needs to dispose of properly. If the waste materials are non-hazardous such as concrete, wood, drywall, bricks, plaster and piping, there are a few ways to dispose of this waste. While landfills were often the first choice for getting rid of construction waste,…
How to Profit by Recycling Food Waste
According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) food waste is second only to paper waste in the amount generated each year. In 2010, more than 34 million tons of food waste was generated, accounting for 14 percent of municipal solid waste. Less than three percent of this waste was recycled, a figure that the agency…
Why Organic Recycling is the Future
According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in 2010 more that two-thirds of the total municipal waste generated in the U.S. was organic material such as food scraps, wood and plant materials. As the price of waste disposal continues to increase along with public pressure to eliminate landfills and garbage incinerators, recycling organic waste is…
How Do I Know If My Waste is Hazardous?
If your company is having difficulty deciding what is and what isn’t hazardous waste, there are ways to determine this. Even homeowner’s with their own private environmental waste will need to know if what they are disposing of is hazardous or not. The RCRA, or Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, determines first if it is…
Plastics: What is and isn’t Recyclable?
Plastics are cost-effective, convenient, lightweight and relatively unbreakable, and they are used to manufacture many common products these days, from disposable and reusable food containers to toys. However, all plastics are not equal, and there are health and environmental concerns related to the widespread use of them. Environmental problems include the facts that the majority…