Recycling

Aside Box?- Besides charging vendors for the amounts of waste produced vendors can actively encourage patrons to help decrease waste streams by providing discounts on practices that can save both the vendor and costumer money. Some straightforward tips that could be applied to all new staff trainings and business practices to reduce waste and help save on purchasing costs for vendors are: Ask if your costumers need a receipt, if not do not print one! Encouraging patrons to bring their own…

Going Green for Gatesburg is a great idea but at the sametime my cause a lot of issues. This proposal covers the idea of us dispossing of our waste in a very green way. If it were to pass they might have an issue though, because I know that I wouldnt want my trash be weighed and survelled would you? Lets take a look at all of the negatives and positives and see what you think. Starting with the positives, Gatesburg would have little landfill. The reason being is you would get one bin for…

Within Mexico City there is a grand issue in regards to food waste and how it's handled. When people think of food losses they are limited by the thought that the only harm that this is causing is wasting actual food but there is so much more harm being caused. When food is just put into waste then there is loss in food for others but also more energy is wasted on disposing of it correctly then this disposal causes pollution in the air which then affects the environment negatively and humans…

There are many opportunities to reduce one’s consumption and to better manage one’s waste by taking advantage of the establishments in Ottawa designed for such a purpose. Bulk Barn is an excellent store for those seeking to reduce, or better yet, eliminate, all plastic products from their life. One need only bring a reusable container to a Bulk Barn location, and then fill it with a large variety of grains, flours, spices and dried beans, all while foregoing plastic packaging. Not only is…

bio-packaging, packaging that is derived from plant based polymers that are both renewable and compostable (Johansson, et al., 2012). In the United States the leading method of packaging waste disposal is landfill, followed by, a not so close second, is recycling, incineration, and composting; if composting was first and landfill was last our waste could become a major contributing factor to the agricultural process, instead of millions of tons of waste we could produce…

Sustainable business is a company or organization that has minimum harm on the society or economy of the global or local environment, it is a business that ensures the triple bottom line (reduce, reuse, recycle) are achieved. A business could be presented as a sustainable or green business if it: makes endless efforts to maintain the environmental protection principles and consider the principles of sustainability when making a business decisions; provides replacement for the non green products…

the use of alternative sources of water such as rainwater, reducing water wastage by installing the effective plumbing fixtures that are efficient and reducing the strain on shared water resources by installing systems that purify water and enable recycling. Apart from that, the last is the materials efficiency, this is due to the reason that green buildings are built from natural, non-toxic eco-friendly and recycled materials such as bamboo, straw, recycled metal, concrete and…

Tagangeles is a modern wonder. We have created an eco-friendly city that makes everything easy and user friendly. Our city is located in Saguache County, Colorado. Our city has many services such as drone security, fire stations, hospitals etc. Citizens of our city have a good life, with easy access to everything needed for a happy one. We have innovative ideas that will change everything. Tagangeles has a unique tram system and districts that are placed to assist all of our citizens. One of…

Wellington Green office Buildings Field Trip Report 1.0 Introduction In this report, the author will discuss green office buildings based on observation and notes from 17th June Wellington green office buildings field trip. The author will explain the green features of three green office buildings: Bank of New Zealand [BNZ], Meridian Energy Ltd [Meridian] and Spark. Then comment the benefits and challenges of the buildings. In final section, the author will give own impressions and opinions of…

Task 1 In the perspective magazine, I have read the texts “advice on going green” and “we all want to help the planet ”. I find these texts very helpful. Especially for people that wants to go green like me. The texts give you a lot reasons on why you should go green. In the text “advice on going green” they give you ten reasons on how you can become greener. Those ten examples on how to become green is good, because everybody can do those changes to the environment In the text “we all want…