How can you clean up by riding the green wave? Rich Sootkoos' company, Reproduct, has created a greener alternative to recycled paper and is helping corporations create greener marketing materials, company reports, and greeting cards. Here he talks about building reuse into his products and garnering support from Microsoft execs,...
To successfully approach reuse and the associated certification considerations, a rigorous understanding of reuse is important. This paper, from a certifiability perspective, defines reuse, discusses reuse drivers and typical reuse scenarios, and details the various types of reuse. In addition, a brief overview of a reuse analysis and implementation approach...
This work is focused on the advanced treatment of the biologically treated wastewater of a textile plant. Nowadays the factory effluent is treated by an activated sludge process carried out after the wastewater neutralization. The wastewater treatment plant effluent is not still appropriate for its reuse because of the residual...
To successfully approach reuse and the associated certification considerations, a rigorous understanding of reuse is important. This paper, from a certifiability perspective, defines reuse, discusses reuse drivers and typical reuse scenarios, and details the various types of reuse. In addition, a brief overview of a reuse analysis and implementation approach...
On November 5, the EPA's National Center for Environmental Innovation gathered the top non-hazardous waste generating industries to discuss beneficial reuse and, in some states, a lack thereof. AFS and FIRST Foundry Industry Recycling Starts Today On November 5, the EPA's National Center for Environmental...
On November 1, 1999, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration FDA finally released its long-awaited controversial proposal on reuse of medical devices, instruments, and supplies. Get ready for more chronic controversy for the Year 2000. This is like On November 1, 1999, the U.S. Food &...
Creating markets for the reuse of industrial waste requires the realization that the material is not waste at all. The material must be considered as a product having value for reuse, not something that belongs in a landfill, attendees learned ...
A new report from Xerox cites results of recent environmental efforts: In 1999, reuse and recycling of Xerox equipment and supplies kept 163 million lb of materials out of landfills--equivalent to the amount of trash that 100,000 people in the U.S. A new report...
Byline: Bruce Geiselman Sen. Jim Jeffords, I-Vt., says a recently released government report underscores the need for legislation that would encourage the recycling and reuse of electronic waste. Jeffords, the ranking member of the Senat ...
The Weyerhaeuser Plywood plant and lumber mill in Mountain Pine recently resolved wastewater management issues that could have resulted in noncompliance with wastewater discharge regulations. The company did this by working cooperatively with the ArkanThe Weyerhaeuser Plywood plant and lumber mill in Mountain Pine recently resolved...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] As said last time, an extractor is supposed to pull a spent case out of the chamber and the ejector is supposed to set it up to get tossed out the ejection port. Extractors got attention last time, so now it's ejectors. ...
Mark Logic Corporation, provider of theindustry's leading XML content platform, today announced that Reed BusinessRB Netherlands has deployed MarkLogic Server as the engine behind apowerful editorial workflow-based application for internal search anddiscovery of valuable digital assets. This enables RB Netherlands to reusecontent to create customized packages and dynamically deliver...
The Latino Community Development Agency of Oklahoma City has been awarded $25,000 from the Environmental Protection Agency to help build a community rooftop garden at the former JCPenney building in the Capitol Hill district of Oklahoma City. Money for the project is part of more than $500,000...
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Q I HAVE a large wrought-iron gate that I want to reuse by hanging it with a mirror behind on a garden wall. I've been advised against using a "mirror on a roll" and wonder what you would recommend? - K.S.Yarwood by email A ADRIENNE SAYS:...
AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-C1997-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The Emirates Group has announced new environmental initiatives that it plans to implement. The company's 'Emvironment' programme includes adopting a new environmental policy, a global staff awareness campaign, internal energy consumption and waste reduction goals and an increase in recycling...
WOODS HOLE, Mass. -- John Todd Ecological Design, Inc. [JTED] a leader in natural wastewater treatment systems, announced today that its founding principal Dr. John Todd was awarded the first-annual Buckminster Fuller Challenge Award with his submission entitled "Comprehensive Design for a Carbon Neutral World: The Challenge of Appalachia". ...
Gerrard Corp. is buying the Quillins store that closed Wednesday at 325 West Ave. N., and is considering two alternatives for the property. "One is basically a re-use of what's there, keeping the building and dividing it into two or three suites and having commercial space such as restaurants,...
Speech application developers now haveaccess to a free suite of pre-packaged, re-usable speech dialog componentsfrom Avaya that simplify the creation of interactive voice response IVRapplications. By combining some of the most commonly used speech commands,developers can more quickly and cost-effectively build or enhance customerresponse systems. Avaya Inc....
Green is the new color of Iowa playgroundsthanks to an environmentally inspired partnership between the IowaDepartment of Natural Resources DNR, the Iowa Association of SchoolBoards IASB, GreenMan Technologies, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary,Welch Products, Inc. The IASB is implementing the Iowa Safe School Playground Initiative, aprogram designed...
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