As the commencement celebrations end and all the graduates take their first steps into making a difference off campus, it’s time to recycle those streamers and get back to making a difference on campus, woo! We all know there’s not much time to sit back and relax when it comes to preparing for the next school year, so we figured we’d help with some research for those in the college and university system. The 2014-2015 school year is going to be very exciting for recycling and…

Currently, only around 12.5% of e-waste is recycled. Cell phones and other electronic items contain high amounts of precious metals like gold or silver. Americans dump phones containing over $60 million in gold/silver every year! For every one million cell phones that are recycled we can recover 35,274 lbs of copper, 772 lbs of silver, 75 lbs of gold and 33 lbs of palladium. So what does this all mean? We should probably do a little better job at recycling our electronics, which according to…

Barrie, Ontario, May 26, 2014 — Busch Systems has announced the latest addition to their growing line of recycling, waste, and compost bins with the Concourse. A complement to the popular Big Bin 45 container, the Concourse is a direct response to consumer demand for a low-cost, high-volume, duo-stream collection option from the company. Busch Systems has been a world leader in the design and manufacturing of recycling, compost, and waste containers since the company’s inception in 1985. Busch Systems designs more new molded recycling…

The popularity of recycling has seen its ups and downs since the idea was sprouted many years ago. Although some give credit to the dinosaurs for starting the recycling trend by decomposing to produce various oils and gasses, we`re going to stick to recycling milestones (good and bad) that won`t stretch the imagination too far. From the first municipal dump program in 500 B.C. to a revolutionary idea in 2014 that could lead to plastics recycling themselves (actually not as outlandish as crediting dinosaurs for…

The Past – We’ve Come a Long Way! Recycling has come a long way over the past few decades – in the US there wasn’t a single recycling program in place until 1973 (in The Hidden Past of Recycling you’ll read that the concept of recycling was widely used in the past, however only privately or individually). Now, there are over 8,000 programs in operation. The first ever curbside recycling program in Canada began in 1973, the program initially served 80,000 homes in the Toronto…