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Illinois turning landfill trash into future cash by Energy Efficiency Posted Fri 01 Oct 2010 12:02pm funding through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The county received 455 acres of the former Joliet Army Ammunition Plant, which closed in the 1990s, and began landfill... Conservation Block Grant funds) to turn methane gas from the Prairie View Landfill into electricity in a partnership with Waste Management. Will County will receive revenue from Read on »

New Campaign Aims to Banish Batteries From Landfills by Sierra Club .. Patient Expert

Posted Tue 27 Jul 2010 10:58am While it's green and easy to use rechargeable batteries, closing the loop on those worn-out power suppliers can be a challenge. That's why Call2Recycle , a free... of rechargables from North American landfills by Oct. 1. But it's not all work and no play – the campaign includes an online video contest , the interactive Green Diva blog Read on »

The Landfill Wars by Neal .. Patient Expert

Posted Wed 23 Mar 2011 12:44pm Guest blog by Don Willis I have been to recycling conventions all across the country. It never fails that all of them have programs dedicated to landfill operators. Somehow recycling companies have not yet gotten the message. Landfill Operators are NOT recyclers. They may dabble around the edges of recycling so that the various levels [...] Read on »

Landfills and Buggy Whips by Neal .. Patient Expert

Posted Fri 10 Dec 2010 2:50am Progress is never without a price. What we gain on one hand we lose on another. The hope is that when the dust has settled the gains outweigh the losses. The manufacturers of buggy whips didn’t want to go out of business when the automobile arrived on the market. They fought to maintain their market [...] Read on »

Recycle your CDs and DVDs Keep Your Technotrash Out Of Landfills by Shawna C. Patient Expert

Posted Fri 04 Sep 2009 9:31am

1 Comment Shockingly, 30 billion Compact Disc’s (CDs) and Digital Video Disc’s (DVDs) are created every year; many of them only to end up as landfill. The CD Recycling Center... end up wasted. Imagine 30 billion CDs/DVDs stacked on top of each other and how much space that must take up if the discs were in a landfill. What’s happening to the CDs Read on »

Green House Gas Eliminated And Packaging Waste Kept Out Of Landfills by Karen H. Patient Expert

Posted Thu 09 Apr 2009 5:24pm . 2007 Statistics: 10,230,732 pounds of packaging waste was kept out of landfills 23, 492, 792 pounds of greenhouse gas was eliminated. 2008 Statistics: 38 million pounds of packaging waste was kept out of landfills 88 million pounds of greenhouse gas emissions was eliminated Add this green diddy of a detail -- purchases of our signature all purpose Read on »

Mama, What Is A Landfill? by Willo Radgens Posted Fri 02 Oct 2009 3:08pm and brilliant. I was reminded of it this morning when, as I was emptying our garbage cans, Tucker asked: "Mom, where does the garbage go?" "To a landfill honey." "What's a landfill?" "It's a place where they dump all the garbage from everyone in the area." "And then what do they do with it?" "Ummm, nothing. It just sits Read on »

The Recycled Holiday Ornament Challenge Is A Success and You Are Responsible For Our Landfills Too! by Shawna C. Patient Expert

Posted Wed 23 Dec 2009 5:55am a billion dollar industry. All these products use resources. What happens when a consumer is tired of a particular ornament or decoration? Mostly it ends up in the landfill – where the resources used to create the beautiful items end up going to waste. As a reminder, the United States is running out of landfill space. Every inch is jam-packed full of garbage Read on »

Electronics, Lead, and Landfills by Environmental Health Posted Tue 31 Aug 2004 9:00pm Electronics, Lead, and Landfills Formal Correction: This article has been formally corrected to address.... Electronics, Lead, and Landfills. Environ Health Perspect 112:a734-a734. doi:10.1289/ehp.112-a734 Ironically, some of our most advanced technologies, when discarded Read on »

A Diamond in the Landfill! by Karen Voyer-Caravona Posted Tue 13 Oct 2009 10:06pm of a landfill and fell in love with it. She took it too a bike shop and had them install a new saddle and handlebars and was good to go. April doesn't have any information about the make Read on »