I was sent this story by a friend over the weekend and I thought it well worth sharing with Energy Refuge readers. It is a feature article about the first recycling plant in Albania, Eastern Europe, focusing on two people who work at the site. Their...
Category - Recycling
The Times has reported that Defra, the UK environment department, has struck a deal with Ford and Hemcore, a company that specialises in hemp production, to research the possibility of using the material as the basis of car components...
In this Harris poll, the good news is that over 75% of us report recycling something in our homes. That is great. That is a lot of materials and energy saved. What about the 23% that don’t recycle? 15% of them say that recycling is not...
Since Sunday July 1st, European consumers are by law being given information on arrangements to be made to dispose of the old equipment so it can be recycled according to the European Union legislation. Producers and distributors are required to...
It must be quite evident for most of us that there is an over-packaging syndrome in the retail industry. When I look at the goods I purchase from conventional, non-organic stores, I find it shocking how much paper and plastic is used to...
