T-Mobile has begun to drastically cut plastic use by up to 45 percent in it’s pay-as-you-go phone packages. This results in to almost half the original plastic being used in packaging as well as a 40 percent cut in materials transportation.
The packaging is manufactured by Alloyd Brands, a division of Tegrant Corporation. The company specializes [...]

Located in Lafayette, Indiana, Perry Foam Products is a major player in the molded foam technology industry, who up until about three years ago did zero recycling. Warehouse Manager, Marvin Hills, set out on a mission to change all of that, but faced a challenging problem of finding vendors who would take large amounts of [...]

Scientist at the University of York have made recent discovers that could take discarded televisions screens and recycle them in to new medicine. The key chemical compound found in these screens is known as polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), which is usually incinerated along with the TV screens in landfills.
New methods in recovering PVA from these screens [...]

Chicago based cleaners have been using a popular cleaning chemical, perchloroethylene, known for it’s ability to cut stains and lift dirt off of fabrics. Customers became very familiar with use of perchloroethylene, because of it’s sharp smell that pours out of plastic bags filled with clean laundry. Many shops used this cleaning chemical due to [...]

The Illinois Department of Agriculture has just released information to local, specialty farmers that the Federal Depart of Agriculture will be appropriating nearly $435,000 in grants for 2010.
The grants will be issued in hopes that hey will stimulate growth of specialty crops, such as pumpkins, strawberries, and cauliflower. The stimulation in growth will provide better [...]