The Recycling Partnership: Residential Recycling
The Recycling Partnership: Residential Recycling
In its recently released 2016 annual report, titled “How do You Create Impact3,” The Recycling Partnership, Falls Church, Virginia, highlights the benefits of its work, focusing on year-on-year growth, systems solutions across the supply chain and the multiplier effect that new infrastructure delivers. Through partnership, we are doing things that individually we never thought possible.” According to The Recycling Partnership’s 2016 annual report, the organization has: • assisted more than 250 local communities and improved recycling for 19 million households.
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What Is Scrap Metal Recycling?
Why do we recycle metals?
Metals can be recycled over and over again without altering their properties. According to American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI), steel is the most recycled material on the planet. The other highly recycled metals include aluminum, copper, silver, brass and gold.
Definition of Metal Recycling
Metal recycling refers to systematically collecting various metals at the end of their useful life, and sorting them according to metal types and quality. This step is followed by processing, purifying and finally making brand new products using the recycled metals. (more…)
America Recycles Day is Nov. 15
America Recycles Day is Nov. 15
Thousands of creative recycling events are being planned for America Recycles Day, a Keep America Beautiful initiative, which takes place on and in the weeks leading up to Nov. 15. In its 18th year, ARD educates people about the importance of recycling to our economy and environmental well-being, and helps to motivate occasional recyclers to become everyday recyclers. (more…)
Mattress Recycling Program Begins in Connecticut
The program, Bye Bye Mattress, will be administered by the Mattress Recycling Council, a nonprofit organization created by the mattress industry to develop and manage the statewide mattress collection program. The program, the first of its kind in the nation, was enacted in 2013 through the passage of Public Act, 13-42, which requires the mattress industry to create a recycling program for mattresses and box springs sold in the state. (more…)
C&D Recycling $7.4 Billion Industry
More than 70 percent of the construction and demolition debris generated in the United States is recycled, according Dr. Timothy Townsend of the University of Florida, speaking at C&D World 2015, the annual meeting of the Construction & Demolition Recycling Association, Aurora, Illinois. Townsends remarks were based on a C&D white paper that his research team was commissioned to develop by the CDRA titled Benefits of C&D Recycling. (more…)