Paper towels Many people love to use paper towels to dry their hands or clean a mess up. They use a lot of them too which they honestly don’t need that many paper towels. What they are doing is wasting the paper towels and the trees that they use. It takes 17 trees to make one ton of paper towels, and by doing that 20,000 gallons of water are polluted. In the U.S. we use over 13 billion pounds of paper towels per year and it keeps getting higher as the years go on. There is about 3,000 tons…
Do you have scrap metal like construction debris or old appliances lying around? Don't just haul it to the landfill; recycle it. Ace Iron Recycling, a comprehensive recycling services company in Honolulu, HI, explains how recycling metal offers numerous benefits to you, your community, and the environment. For the last 15 years, Ace Iron Recycling has been putting money into the pockets of Oahu residents and helping businesses rid themselves of unwanted junk. Some of the important ways…
Trash Talk One Line Pitch: A solution to the littering problem. Business Summary: We’ve come up with a device designed to help people get into the habit of throwing out their trash correctly, and have fun while doing so. We hope to eliminate the littering problem by having a Trash Talk in every home. Customer Problem: Steve was hiking one day when he came upon a trashcan littered with garbage all around its base. Another hiker came by, threw his trash down, and kept on walking. Steve thought…
Climate change is becoming an increasingly important issue for many Americans across the country. Many people see recycling as the most direct way to make a change. In their everyday lives they use recyclable bags, recycle items, and compost. Yet not enough is done to increase recycling rates across the country as many recyclable products are thrown away each year. For example, roughly 59% of the waste can be recycled. This percentage is made up of paper, food scraps, and yard trimmings (Weeks,…
Pack Rat Rubbish Removal in Syracuse, New York Cleanliness and tidiness at home are critical and when it becomes too stressful, you can remove your junk with the help of a junk removal agency. However, you may be quite unsure when it is the best time to have your trash removed. It is necessary to determine a budget before you decide to have your trash removed. While deciding how much junk you should have before calling a junk removal agency, it is wise to find out the types of things that junk…
In this article, the authors, O’Connor, Lerman, Fritz, & Hodde, are expanding on current research concerning increasing the recycling habits of U.S consumers. First, the reader is informed on current recycling statistics presented by Keep America Beautiful; including how “in 2006, U.S. consumers recycled only 28% of their recyclable waste” (711). Moreover, the authors point out that the increasing popularity of plastic water bottles contributes to the amount of recyclable waste, and how this…
into the house, as well as what you do with it. As they say: “reduce, reuse, recycle.” Reducing your Packaging Waste You have more control than you might imagine over the amount of waste you bring into your home. If you bring it in, it 's not only a chance to make an environmentally friendly disposal choice, but your duty to make sure you do so in a manner that is safe. For instance, many people were swayed…
Background: Reuse of cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs)may help address the unmet need among patients in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Methods: To examine Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) physicians’ opinions regarding CIED reuse, an online survey eliciting attitudes toward CIED reuse was sent to all 3,380 HRS physician members. Results: There were 429 responses (response rate 13%). A large majority of respondents agreed or strongly agreed that resterilization of devices for…
Ives, B., Walsh, K. R., & Schneider, H. (2004). The domino effect of password reuse. Communications Of The ACM, 47(4), 75-78. doi:10.1145/975817.975820 This is a brief cautionary article on the dangers of reusing a password across multiple applications. The authors give several examples of security breaches, but do not do a good job of illustrating that those security breaches were the direct or indirect result of a password re-use. Indeed, some of the incidents were a clear case of…
Virtually everyone who has grown up in the United States knows the saying: “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.” And most of us think that in order to save the environment, we must all play a small role by doing things like buying cars with high gas mileage, or using products that are environmentally friendly in one way or another. These kind of ideas have been repeated to many of us our whole lives, but what most don’t realize is that the burden of responsibility for protecting the environment and enacting…