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How to Get Started With Recycling
Recycling helps to save forests from depleting, increases the quality of our water and stimulates the economy. For those reasons and many more it is important that everyone does what they can to ensure that they are doing their bit for mother earth. Following is an explanation of how you can get started with recycling and give something back as well as improve your quality of your life and the quality of life for your children and your children’s children. Many people say that they don’t do their bit towards recycling because their effort on their own is not enough to make a difference, however this is simply not true. If everyone had that attitude, where would be?
Organize Your Waste
Rather than sticking your rubbish into one central place, it is important that you categorize waste in order to recycle it. You should place glass in one place, tins/cans in one place, plastics in one place, compost in one place and have another place for cardboard and paper/newspaper.
Find out about Recycling Facilities Where you Live
You should find out about the facilities available in your county. Depending on where you live, you may find it is harder or easier to recycle your waste. Some places will have a dedicated pick-up to come and take your waste away, while other areas will require that you drive a substantial distance in order to drop it off. Either way, it is important that you do your bit for society.
Recycling Tins/Cans
When recycling tins and cans you should firstly remove all the paper from the outside and try to flatten any sharp edges to limit any risk of you being cut. You should then place all tins and cans in a dedicated waste bin.
Plastic
Plastic wrappings and other plastic items should be treated with caution when recycling them. It is best if you take measures to stop any animals being hurt from plastic items. This includes breaking open drinks-cans rings so that an animal cannot get their head trapped in it, as well as ripping open plastic bags so they are just in the form of a single sheet.
Compost
Compost should be used to enrich your soil in your garden. Many people have a compost heap in their garden. Once you have left the compost for a period of a few weeks, it is now ready to treat the soil in your garden. If you do not have a large garden then you could consider asking your neighbors, friends and family members if they could make use of it.
Paper/Newspaper
Paper and newspaper is generally the easiest item to recycle because it is the most sought after item. After you read your old newspapers and magazines you should place them inside a dedicated container so that they can later be recycled. You should be especially careful not to place any other items into this container as it will cause problems for the recycler later on.
Trustworthy Seal
Display the Trustworthy Seal on your website and increase your sales and sign-ups. Studies have show that you can increase sales as much as 30% when your site is verified by a third party trust seal. All website owners need to be Trustworthy.
Trustworthy Seal
Panacea at Green Fest 2009 (reloaded) (1 of 8)
Panacea presented open source technologies at Australia’s biggest green festival (www.greenfest.com.au) in order to educate the public and government to superior pollution cutting and energy saving technologies. This was also done to support the open source free energy movement. Please forward this information to your local member and help create further public access to these energy saving and pollution cutting devices. Technical instructions on the replication of these devices can be found on the www.panaceauniversity.org site. Please forward this information to your local members of government and help support this work. We need you help to do so.
Demonstration Green Home by Zetland Homes
Tour the 21st Century Victorian Demonstration Green Home built by Zetland Homes LLC in NH. Built under the US Green Building Council LEED for Homes Pilot Program. Features Smart R high efficiency insulation, geothermal heat, and a variety of other “green” features. 2008 Cornerstone gold award winner for “most energy efficient design solution” and “best home under $450000″. Energy Star five star plus home.
Ecogreen – Helping Hotels to be Environment Friendly
EcoGreenHotel.com was launched early in 2008 and is planning for considerable growth in 2009. The planned growth will be with vendor partners that target the hospitality industry, sustainable hotel partners and a consulting arm that will be working with both new and existing properties.
EcoGreenHotel will provide ‘Green’ Consulting Services to include:
Audit of hotel building design and operations
Provide a recommendations report on building and operations
Lay ground work for an environmental management system
Educate and train management for new environmental direction
Conduct on-site environmental workshops for all levels of staff
Develop a customized environmental policy and purchasing plan
Assist with certification processing, including LEEDTM
With plenty of information on green products and services, industry “green” news, basic environmental overview and tools like checklists, green project ideas, book lists and resourceful links for a more sustainable hotel, EcogreenHotel.com is a marketplace.
EcoGreen Hotel follows various green hotel practices. The top ten are listed below:
1. Buying recycled-content products for the office, construction and remodeling projects,
2. Installing energy efficient lighting fixtures, fluorescent bulbs, HVAC and other electrical equipment,
3. Institute a linen reuse program in guest rooms
4. Starting a recycling program for trash from guest rooms, the kitchen and business office.
5. Hiring energy expert to conduct an audit of hotel,
6. Evaluating cleaners, sanitizers, paints, pesticides and other products used,
7. Monitoring, record and post rates of energy and water use. Watch for changes that may indicate repair or equipment change,
8. Providing incentives to encourage staff participation in efforts to “green” the establishment,
9. Installing water conserving showerheads, faucets and toilets in guest rooms,
10. Donating leftover food, amenities and other extras to local shelters or other recipients.
EcoGreen is a valuable resource for hoteliers. EcoGreenhotel.com helps hotels to address environmental issues in a better way and implements environment friendly initiatives.
For more information on EcoGreenHotel or available consulting services, please visit http://www.ecogreenhotel.com
How To Green Home Part 2
Join Planet Green’s Steve Thomas, Green Architect Jeremy Levine and his Eco-Entrepreneur wife Robin Kay Levine, CEO of Eco-Me (www.eco-me.com) as they open the doors to their Eagle Rock, California Green Home. Part 2
Air Conditioning – Recycle EP – Slopus
Name : Air Conditioning Album : Recycle EP Artist : Slopus Track : 7 of 9
