Myrtle Beach, South Carolina is set to revamp its recycling habits, which currently are plagued with out-dated facilities and lack of resources. However, now thanks to Fisher Recycling, a local waste management company, companies in the popular resort town will now be able to recycle plastic, glass, and aluminium. Previously, due to a lack of service and facility companies in the Myrtle Beach area could not even recycle the most basic recyclables such as glass and plastic. Thanks to South Myrtle Chamber of Commerce's new 'Going Green' Campaign, Fisher Recycle will now provide auditing services for waste as well as recycling ... Full Story

According to a new report, the U.S. airline industry currently generates over 880 million tons of waste each year. Of that waste only a very small percentage is actually recycled by these airlines. The recycling report card, which graded each airline for recycling habits, revealed that no airline was doing an A job. Topping the list for best recyclers included Virgin Atlantic, Virgin America, and Delta. However, United and US Airways managed to fail miserably. Even with some of the airlines coming in first on the list, not a single US carrier rated above a B-. The report, entitled What Goes Up ... Full Story

Glass has been getting a fair amount of attention in the environmental news lately as several countries have figured out more efficient ways to recycle different types of glass. Government agencies have been tasked with looking into the ways in which the United Kingdom can become greener.  The UK has been under fire over recent months after it was revealed that it would fail to meet many of the environmental objectives outlined by the European Union.  The EU set specific guidelines and goals for all of its member nations to reduce waste and to increase their rates of recycling. Recently ... Full Story

One of the biggest problems that the recycling industry has encountered is how to most effectively separate recycling that has been mixed together.  The amount of manpower that it takes to do this job often cuts deeply into the money generated through recycling meaning that there is less to reinvest in the infrastructure of the industry.  Things like plastic and glass are often mixed with plastics or glass that are not the same and thus must be separated.  Most of this is not done out of malice or even laziness but ignorance of how to properly separate recycling.  People often ... Full Story

As the world tries to bounce back from the global recession there are many new industries which may provide countries a way to get out of this mess by creating jobs.  Green technology has become one of the fastest growing segments of the business world, as companies spring up to try and fill the needs created by new environmental regulations.  In the process, thousands of jobs have been created in the UK as new plants are being built and designed every day which take advantage of the newest and most innovative technology.  The recycling of electronic devices has risen to ... Full Story

Tesco has been one grocery store chain which is trying to do its part to lower its carbon footprint, and the footprint of its customers.  They recently launched a policy in which buy one get one free offers were delayed to become buy one get one free later.  The reason for this is that these deals often lead to people buying more of an item than they really need, which causes a lot of waste, especially with perishable items like food.  Food waste contributes a large amount to landfills, so by instituting this program Tesco is doing their part to ... Full Story

As the United Kingdom looks for ways to get greener, every industry must be inspected to see how it can make changes to reduce their waste and increase recycling.  With all of the alcohol that is consumed in the UK, pubs end up contributing plenty of glass and cans to rubbish and recycling bins.  A recent study showed that the average Brit will spend nearly sixty thousand pounds in pubs over their lifetime, which amounts to a whole lot of bottles. A company in the United Kingdom has decided to take advantage of one of the biggest contributors to landfills ... Full Story

Over the last year the United Kingdom has been criticized by many for its failure to live up to the recycling and waste management goals laid out by the European Union.  This led to widespread government schemes which aimed to get people to recycled more and waste less.  The government put pressure on local councils to come up with new and innovative ways to get their citizens to recycle.  Because of this the recycling rates in the UK have gone up dramatically over the last year as people become increasingly more aware of the importance of diverting waste from landfills. ... Full Story

Government agencies have been tasked with looking into the ways in which the United Kingdom can become greener.  The UK has been under fire over recent months after it was revealed that it would fail to meet many of the environmental objectives outlined by the European Union.  The EU set specific guidelines and goals for all of its member nations to reduce waste and to increase their rates of recycling.  The United Kingdom has been getting better, likely due to an overwhelming number of schemes launched by agencies and local councils to increase awareness about environmental issues, as well as ... Full Story

Environmental news has flooded newspapers and television lately as the world tries to tackle the problem of global warming and climate change.  The United Nations summit on climate change is rapidly approaching as countries prepare to unite in their efforts to reduce carbon emissions, recycle more frequently, and produce less waste.  The United Kingdom has been particularly vocal in its efforts to educate the public, as the UK was ranked near the bottom of countries in the European Union when it comes to recycling and waste management.  Not only has the national government stepped up its efforts, but local councils ... Full Story

Residents in Cambridge will soon find it easier and cleaner to recycle their glass, plastic, metal, and paper products.  The Cambridge Council has announced that it will wheel out thousands of new bins for residents which will replace the old recycling boxes, which residents said had a number of problems which contributed to them recycling less. Residents in Cambridge complained that the old boxes were far too small, create litter when the wind is strong, are hard to manipulate, and simply discourage residents from recycling more Studies have shown that people will recycle more when the act is easy and when there ... Full Story

A company in the United Kingdom has decided to take advantage of one of the biggest contributors to landfills in the UK.  Currently pubs and bars are forced to separate bottles by color so that they can be recycled.  This causes most of these bottles to not get recycled at all, as it becomes a labor intensive duty for a restaurant, pub, or bar.  This is all about to change, as one business in the United Kingdom is now offering to remove the bottles from pubs without separating them into different bins.  Premier Waste Management has announced that it will now ... Full Story