Category Archives: Recycling issues

Can the food you don’t eat give you gas?

Posted on March 28, 2011 by I Michael Grossman

Most of us don’t eat about 14% of the food we purchase. It ends up in the garbage can but it still gives us gas. Specifically, when wasted food ends up in the landfill it generates a greenhouse gas that is 23 times … Continue reading →

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ATM pays cash to recycle your old cell phone?

Posted on September 1, 2010 by I Michael Grossman

EcoATM estimates the market for electronic assets lying dormant in consumer homes at $25 billion. Continue reading →

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Why the Newport Jazz Festival isn’t buried in trash

Posted on August 10, 2010 by I Michael Grossman

Newport’s trash is gone. 15,000 music lovers might have left it scattered about Fort Adams State Park over the three days at the jazz Mecca that first formed back in the sixties. Some 2 tons of plastic bottles, paper and other potential waste didn’t get trashed, … Continue reading →

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Whatever floats your boat…Maiden voyage creates awareness of how fast plastic trash is growing.

Posted on April 21, 2010 by I Michael Grossman

You know the drill. We’re gulping from plastic bottles at ever faster rates, with per capita use more than doubling by the decade. (We bought 3.3 billion plastic bottles in 1993 and 15 billion in 2002.) About 40 million plastic … Continue reading →

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So your car bumper used to be my toothbrush?

Posted on August 30, 2008 by I Michael Grossman

Every cloud reputedly has a silver lining and even black petroleum clouds from high oil prices have one. The bad news is obvious. To buy oil, we’re exporting American wealth to the middle east the tune of 700 billion a year and … Continue reading →

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How much do you want for your trash?

Posted on August 18, 2008 by I Michael Grossman

The average American creates 4.6 lbs of trash daily which for a family of five means 161 pounds of trash a week. Multiply that by 300 million Americans and the scope of the issue become clear fast. What is more, the … Continue reading →

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