FL DEP Recycling Recognition Program

FL DEP Recycling Recognition Program

Source: DEP The Recycling Recognition Program was developed to encourage private businesses, institutions, schools, public organizations and citizens to increase recycling in order to reach Florida’s recycling goal of 75% by 2020. The Department has an easy tool for organizations to track, compare and report their recycling efforts — The Florida DEP Business Recycling Tracking Tool or […]

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Sony TV spots to boost global eco-consciousness

Sony TV spots to boost global eco-consciousness

Source: recyclinginternational.com Global:  Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has launched a global environmental campaign across its channels in 177 countries, involving 45 networks in 30 languages. The ”Picture This” broadcasts will focus on various sustainable issues in a bid to boost overall social engagement. Sony’s slogan is to ‘picture a world more vibrant, more hopeful, more responsible, […]

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Reducing Waste at Work

Reducing Waste at Work

Source: EPA Instead of printing hard copies of your documents, save them to your hard drive or email them to yourself to save paper. Make your printer environmentally friendly. Change your printer settings to make double-sided pages. Use small point fonts when possible and use the “fast draft” setting when possible to save ink. Pay your bills […]

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Construction & Demolition Debris Recycling

Construction & Demolition Debris Recycling

Source: Florida DEP Construction and demolition (C&D) debris recycling became a matter of controversy in the 2000 legislative session. House Bill 2163 (Appendix A, a web link) would have created a new class of materials called “recoverable construction and demolition materials” (RCDM), which would have been exempt from local government solid waste franchises. The bill […]

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Materials Recovery Facilities (MRF)

Materials Recovery Facilities (MRF)

Source: Florida DEP Key Objectives of MRF Design MRFs must be designed to produce clean, consistent, marketable products from heterogeneous materials that contain some level of contamination. Designing, constructing and equipping a new MRF, or redesigning an existing facility, requires an efficient integration of automated technologies and manual labor. When designing a MRF, the following […]

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Waste Reduction, Reuse, Recycling, and Composting in Schools

Waste Reduction, Reuse, Recycling, and Composting in Schools

Source: nerc.org How to initiate these programs in your school: Find a dedicated and motivated individual to initiate school recycling, with additional support people (“Recycling Team”) for sustaining and expanding the program. Before targeting materials for diversion, evaluate the schools waste stream, existing waste reduction efforts, and the resources available, including staff and local recycling […]

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Florida’s Pollution Prevention Program

Florida’s Pollution Prevention Program

Source: Florida DEP Another program closely tied in with the State’s waste reduction and recycling efforts is called the Florida Pollution Prevention (P2) Program. Pollution prevention is a process improvement that eliminates, conserves or reuses materials which are the source of pollution. It achieves positive financial, environmental and worker health results. Pollution prevention increases efficiency […]

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Composting Florida’s Organic Materials

Composting Florida’s Organic Materials

Source: Florida DEP What are Organic Materials? A very simple definition of organic is: pertaining to the vegetable or animal world. In nature, natural processes break down these materials into humus. These same processes are used to produce compost. As the conditions needed are optimized, the more quickly this product can be made. The regulations […]

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Waste Reduction and Florida’s Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Management System

Waste Reduction and Florida’s Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Management System

Source: Florida DEP   Waste Reduction is an integral part of Florida’s municipal solid waste (MSW) management system. Waste reduction in Florida is measured by assessing the amount of waste that is not being combusted in one of the State’s waste-to-energy facilities or buried in one of its landfills. The most recognizable form of waste […]

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Recycle your Business Waste

Business advantages of recycling your waste Source: nibusinessinfo.co.uk Your business can gain a number of benefits from recovering and recycling waste. However, remember that waste activities such as recycling and recovery use energy so your priority should be to reduce waste in the first place. Save and make money Your business can save money by using […]

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