MillerCoors Recycling 99% of Waste

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According to the Albany Herald Executives at MillerCoors announced this week that their brewery located in Albany, GA is now recycling 99 percent of its waste.  The company that usually sends over 40 tons of waste to a landfill each month, will now be doing its part to reduce the waste that is piling up in our nation's landfills.  The Albany plant will become the sixth MillerCoors brewery nationwide to become waste-free as part of the company's ongoing effort to become more environmentally friendly everyday.

According to Executives, the company has been working to become better stewards of the communities in which they operate while also remaining economically successful.   “MillerCoors has always been environmentally conscience,” said MillerCoors Albany Brewery Vice President Tim Dill. “We want to maintain the beauty of our city. This is a major milestone for Albany and MillerCoors in general.”

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China Puts up "Green Fence"

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Last year China launched a plan to reduce pollution called the "Green Fence."  This policy bans the import of anything but the cleanest, must tidily organized bales of reusable rubbish, and bars some types all together.  This plan was originally supposed to end in November of 2013, but now Chines industry sources say that the Green Fence is here to stay. 

Before the Green Fence, when American households and businesses recycled their plastic, for the most part what they were truly doing was sending for collection at US recycling companies.  Some of this plastic would then be shredded and packed into bales, while other types were simply just bundled up as they were.  The US recycling companies would then send these bundles to China.  The more China made, the more it needed used plastics, eventually collecting around two-thirds of the US's plastic scrap each year, which was worth several billions of dollars.

China's collection of cheap plastic came at a cost.  Anything recyclers couldn't use was added to China's growing "trash mountains."  Even worse, a majority of recycling processors are small firms that pollute heavily and are hard to regulate.  The outrage of the Chinese public over the country's noxious air and polluted waterways have lead the government to take action and enact the Green Fence.  This means that much of the recyclables from the US are no longer being recycled. 

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Even Planes Can be Recycled

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When we think of recycling we usually think of smaller items like plastic bottles or broken down raw materials of a larger object.  Almost anything can be recycled these days, that includes airplanes.  CNN did an article on the most creative ways to recycle an airplane and it was very interesting. 

Where do airplanes go after they are no longer useful?  By 2020 approximately 12,000 aircraft are set to be decommissioned.  In addition 2,000-3,000 planes are estimated to have been abandoned around the world according to the Aircraft Fleet Recycling Association.  Most aircraft will eventually reach an awkward stage where they are no longer safe to fly but are still too sturdy to demolish, which will then go to storage temporarily.  Some parts, like the engine, will sell themselves an be reused.  Reusing other parts of the aircraft require a little more innovation and creativity to reuse.  Some have found ways to recycle leftover parts into things like:

• Furniture
• Floor or Wall Tile
• Boat
• House
• Hotel
• Artificial Reef
• & much more 

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Reusing Plastic Water Bottles

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The three big "Rs" are Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.  Reducing can be accomplished by consciously purchasing an eco-friendly, and keeping it to refill instead of buying new bottles.  As for recycling, almost every community has some type of curbside recycling, or local place you can take your used plastics.  The creativity really comes in to play with the third R, reuse.  Statistics say only about 20 percent of plastic water bottles are actually recycled.  which leaves about 80 percent in landfills or the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which is an island of garbage that stretches for hundreds of miles in the Pacific Ocean. 

There are countless ideas for reuse that range from décor to function to gardening and much more.  You can keep your garden hydrated with a recycled water bottle lawn sprinkler, create a year round cutting garden for your kitchen with a recycle bottle indoor herb garden, or protect your iPod with a recycled water bottle iPod holder.  You can find directions and examples of all of these projects at http://goo.gl/2JrTzp. 

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Cradle to Cradle Recycling

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A common idea is that recycled material are often of lower quality than the materials from which they were made.  Twenty years ago a German Chemist, Michael Braungart developed a new approach to recycling, which is now called "Cradle to Cradle" or C2C after the book Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things.  Their whole concept revolved around trying to make sure that materials chosen for the original product could be reused after the product has finished its useful life.  They were looking for products that maintain their quality when they are recycled.  By planning ahead they can increase the productivity of the disassembly of the product parts before they enter the recycling stage and retain quality.  For more information on the C2C process please visit: http://goo.gl/JHT3a2.

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Vending Machine for Recycled Plastic T-shirts

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At New York Fashion Week, Plastics Make It Possible® unveiled a vending machine that dispenses limited edition designer T-shirt made with recycled plastics in exchange for recycling a plastic bottle.  This campaign is designed to show the public how their recyclables can be reused to create something totally different.  Using a plastic bottle as currency to buy a new T-shirt made from bottles just like it, really drives the point home.  This is also used to celebrate the growing role of recycled plastics in fashion during New York Fashion Week.  Plastics Make it Possible^® has partnered with New York fashion designer Allison Parris for the debut of the vending machine, which will be located south of Columbus Circle on 8th Ave between 57th and 58th streets in New York City from September 9-11.

The T-shirts feature an original design by Parris, who is one of the growing number of designers who have embraced recycled plastics as one of the new go-to materials for making stylish clothing and accessories.  For more information about the recycling campaign at New York Fashion Week please visit http://goo.gl/Yuj06O.

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Recycling Your Home!

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Recycling your home when remodeling or rebuilding begins with a process called deconstruction, which is action of taking a home apart, instead of demolishing it.  Dismantling a home piece by piece allows you to save an reuse as many of the building components as possible.  Instead of bulldozing a house and adding to landfill waste, a trained crew can deconstruct a home, saving the materials which can be either donated or sold. 

To begin this process you must first locate a deconstruction expert in your community. Then you need to arrange an appraisal consultation, where the deconstruction company will come to your home and give an assessment of your home's value.  Your home will be deconstructed over a period of several days.  Finally the materials will be donated or sold.  Almost everything in a home can be salvaged except for the sheetrock and plaster.  The items that are typically salvaged include doors, windows, cabinets, lighting fixtures, framing lumber, plumbing fixtures, countertops, copper wiring, roofing materials, brick and flooring among other materials. The items can then be sold for your profit or donated to a non-profit company, you can then collect a tax deduction based on the value of the materials you donate. 

Recycling the raw materials of your home not only benefits the environment but also puts some money in your pocket.  For more information on deconstruction please visit http://goo.gl/2Pj2mC.
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Why Water Recycling is so Important

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Water not only makes up about 70 percent of the surface of our planet but also about 60 percent of our bodies.  It is safe to say that water is pretty important to us.  Recycling has usually referred to things like different types of metals and plastics, but water recycling has come a long way and is now being practiced all over the world from Melbourne, Australia to Anaheim California. 

Water Recycling uses high-tech membrane filters to turn municipal effluent into clean, safe drinking water.  The process starts by moving through filters that have tiny microscopic pores, then using ultraviolet light and common chemicals like chlorine to reclaim and reuse water.  The water is then put into a lake or an aquifer and later goes back into the municipal water system.  Water recycling can also occur with the use of man-made wetlands, by filtering water through hundreds of acres of native plants, which cleans the water through natural biological processes. 

It is no secret that our population has been steadily growing throughout history.  Which is why we must do all we can to conserve our natural resources.  Read more about the process on http://goo.gl/PkGzOS.

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