office recycling Articles
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ARA fees 2016 English
Altstoff Recycling Austria AG Mariahilfer Straße 123, 1062 Vienna, Austria phone: +43.1.599 97-0, fax: +43.1.595 35 35 office@ara.at, www.ara.at LIST OF TARIFF RATES Valid from 1 January 2016 Rates (€/kg) excl. VAT Household packaging from 01.01.2015 from 01.01.2016 1.01.0 Paper, household 0.095 0.095 Altstoff Recycling Austria AG Mariahilfer Straße 123, 1062 Vienna, Austria ...
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How to set up an office recycling program
The Paperless Project states the average office worker uses 10,000 sheets of paper a year, and 45% of paper used by office workers is trash by the end of the day. CalRecycle reports that over 785,000 tons of recyclable office paper are disposed of every year in California alone. The good news is that there’s a huge opportunity for offices to make an impact on the amount of waste they ...
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PAPER RECYCLING: THE RECOVERED FIBER IS ALREADY USED TO PRODUCE HALF THE PAPER AND CARDBOARD
50.2% of the world’s paper and cardboard production was manufactured with recovered fiber in 2018. This is reflected in the report on the statistical analysis carried out by the Paper Division of the Bureau of International Recycling (BIR), the office of international recycling, published this 2020.To identify the main trends in recovered fibers, the BIR had the support of the European ...
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`Recyclability` - only in theory?!
On supermarket shelves we find a colorful variety of logos and labels that advertise product packaging as “recyclable” and thus supposedly environmentally friendly. But what does “recyclable” actually mean? Only rarely is it transparent to the end user what exactly the claim refers to: Whereas some of the logos are based on a ...
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Green products. Green company!
Bird-X pest control products are safe and non-toxic. They modify the environment to teach pests to stay away from problem areas. There’s no continuous application of chemicals and no killing. That saves resources compared to cleaning up pest bird and animal mess. But how else does Bird-X strive to be a green company? The Bird-X green office environment makes an “eco-friendly” ...
By Bird-X Inc.
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MIT community takes the Earth Day Challenge
Take Action! Earn Points! Win Prizes! Written by Rachael Budowle, MIT Sustainability Program.You can read the original new in MIT NewsEarth Day has been reinvented at MIT. The Institute has a long history of Earth Day fairs, film series, colloquia, and other activities designed to celebrate the day and spread information about energy and the environment. This year marked a shift from providing ...
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The safe bet: positioners improve worker safety
Waste and recycling manufacturer Sebright Products increases floor safety by utilizing five ALM Positioners. If it can be recycled, it’s likely that Sebright Productsoffers the equipment to make it happen. With nine different waste-handling product lines, Sebright helps the world manage waste and recycling challenges. “From oil filters to paper, bottles and aluminum cans, if it can ...
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How green is your supply chain?
Over the past ten years, protection of the environment has become a household concern and an industrial priority. Concerns about industrial pollution are often linked with the production of industrial waste and high energy usage. However, not just industry but all businesses have an environmental impact – even within the office environment there may be significant emission of greenhouse gases and ...
By IMSM Ltd
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Ways You Can Recycle When Working from Home
Before the Coronavirus Pandemic hit, doing our day job remotely from home was unheard of, unless it was special circumstances. Although some of us may have returned to the office, working from home for most people will become the new office. Ever since a lockdown was implemented in most parts of the world, waste collectors are overwhelmed with the huge influx of household waste as everyone is ...
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Gasmet Analyzers Help Research Find Answers to Climate Change
Understanding climate change and committing to its mitigation has become part of everyday life and actions in companies around the world. Gasmet, too, is committed to reduce its environmental impact through its company strategy and core business, gas analyzers. For this article we introduced our very own sustainability experts, Quality Manager Ulla Kosonen and Sales Channels and Marketing ...
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Waste Prevention and Recycling at your Office
When it comes to preserving resources, avoiding pollution and saving money, reducing waste outshines recycling. In this game, businesses and organizations of all sizes can truly do well by doing the right thing.Successfully adopted by many businesses, waste reduction is a smart approach to saving money and natural resources. Every little thing adds when it comes to business.Business executives ...
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The Age of Steel: Recycling Ferrous Scrap
Steel – which can be found in food cans, household containers, automobiles and office buildings—is the most recycled material in the world. Many of the products we see and use every day are made from steel, including containers, cans, automobiles and appliances. The average appliance is 75 percent steel by weight, and most cars are made up of about 65 percent steel and iron. Steel ...
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Grey water recycling system for home office building
Home Office declares Aquaco grey water recycling system a success! Says Head of Corporate Services Katharine Thompson”: If anyone had an issue with the facilities here, I would be the first to know”. “In fact I had almost forgotten that there is a grey water system supplying the toilets here, it appears to be just as mains water would be,” says Katherine. 1,100 people ...
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Aquacell S100 - 1 Bligh Street, Sydney case study
Location: Sydney, Australia Client: Dexus and Cbus Property Capacity: 26,000 gallons/day Source: Blackwater from toilets, hand basins, mined sewer Recycled Use: Toilet flushing and cooling tower make-up The Property Located in the heart of Sydney’s CBD, the 29 story, 470,000 square foot tower provides spectacular views of Sydney Harbor. 1 Bligh Street is an iconic feature of the ...
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The growing E-waste problem
If your current PC is too slow or running out of storage space, it’s probably more cost-effective to replace it than to upgrade it. But what happens to your computer once you replace it? The workplace mantra of “reduce, reuse, recycle” often ends with office paper and aluminum soda cans. As a result, myriad computers considered obsolete by today’s standards sit unused in back rooms or end up in ...
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Occupational (Workplace) Safety and Health Services Services 2018/2019
Safety and Health Services is our specialty with a focus on the workplace since our founding in 1978. We can perform audits, safety inspections, industrial hygiene surveys, OSHA compliance, noise surveys, indoor air quality, ventilation, review accident and illness records to minimize workplace illnesses and injuries ensure OSHA compliance and act as expert witness in litigation situations. Our ...
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Recycling Computer Waste: A Revolutionary Idea to Reduce Electronic Waste
Time and again, we often come across words like Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. Let’s face it, being a consumer, we deal with daily stuff which could be recycled and reused. The garbage which we throw into dustbin could contain various types of products which could be recycled and reused but we are not quite aware about which products could be recycled. Electronic waste is one such type of waste ...
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Tips for Recycling in Daily Life
Recycling items at home, school or workplace does not need a lot of time and effort in the event that you spend some time creating an extensive recycling system. This system begins with finding a place to store the items you want to recycle at home, school or office, regardless of whether this is a container, dustbin or bag. Here are a few tips that will help you recycle items more effectively at ...
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How your field service business can use less paper to save the environment
We may be living in a digital world, but it's been predicted that the demand for paper will double before 2030. You may not think much about the documents or emails you mindlessly print, but paper waste is a big problem for our environment. Pulp and paper production is the third-largest industrial contributor to air, water, and soil pollution. While you may think that your field service ...
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Zentox system saves money by cleaning, reusing water
Washing dead chickens uses water. No, make that lots and lots of water. Cleaning each chicken-and removing the contaminants and bacteria that the U.S. Department of Agriculture requires-uses about 10 gallons of water. So if you’re a typical chicken plant that processes, say, 200,000 chickens a day, you end up using 2 million gallons of water a day. Using that much water puts the pressure ...
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