Tag Archives: Sustainability
Posted on Monday, March 14, 2016
By:
J.P. Mascaro & Sons
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Recycling
According to the last EPA report, Americans generated 33 million tons of plastics in 2013, but recycled only nine percent of that. The rest ends up in landfills where it may take up to 1,000 years to decompose, and potentially leak pollutants into the soil and water. Beyond that, it’s estimated that as much as 100 million tons of plastic debris is floating in the world’s oceans,...
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Tagged:Green, Recycle, Recycling, Education, Sustainability, Landfills, Environment, Evironmental Responsibility, Plastic Bottles
Posted on Tuesday, February 23, 2016
By:
J.P. Mascaro & Sons
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Saving energy does not require a lot
of money or time. It simply requires knowledge, commitment, a plan and action.By acknowledging and capturing the energy inefficiencies
that you create or ignore on a daily basis, you can radically reduce your
energy bills, thereby reducing greenhouse gas emissions caused by power plants,
ultimately reducing your carbon
footprint. While new technologies...
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Tagged:Green, Recycle, Recycling, Education, Sustainability, Environment, Evironmental Responsibility, Earth, Planet, Carbon Footprint, Energy Consumption
Posted on Wednesday, February 3, 2016
By:
J.P. Mascaro & Sons
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Some fascinating, mystifying, and
amusing facts about the El Niño weather cycle phenomenon and why we should pay
attention“Seems it never rains
in southern California”, pined Albert
Hammond in his 1972 Billboard chart topper. Perhaps coincidentally, 1972
was a La Niña weather-pattern year, the
coin-flip antithesis of the intense El
Niño pattern that we are...
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Tagged:Green, Recycle, Recycling, Sustainability, Environment, Compost, Composting, Evironmental Responsibility, Weather, Global Warming, Earth, Planet
Posted on Tuesday, January 26, 2016
By:
J.P. Mascaro & Sons
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Main Category
The process of commercial composting
produces a variety of undesirable byproducts unless facilitated responsibly in
a state-of-the-art indoor facility.By now, most of us have a good grasp on the features,
benefits and methods of composting our own food scraps and yard waste at home. It
is an environmentally-responsible behavior that provides a useful product for
our gardens, and is a great...
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Tagged:Green, Sustainability, Compost, Composting, Organic, Wastewater, Biosolids, Compostable, Food scraps, Organic waste, Grass clippings
Posted on Saturday, January 9, 2016
By:
J.P. Mascaro & Sons
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Main Category
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Recycling
You may
have been lead to believe that solid-waste incineration is a “landfill-free”
solution, but the facts burn far brighter!Contrary to what you may have been told, incineration is far
from being a “landfill-free” solid-waste disposal option of choice. Did you
know that approximately 25% of the waste delivered to
incinerators winds up in a landfill? That’s a...
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Tagged:Green, Recycle, Recycling, Education, Sustainability, Landfill-Free, Incineration, Landfills, Environment, Solid Waste, Trash, Garbage
Posted on Tuesday, November 10, 2015
By:
J.P. Mascaro
Categories:
Recycling
You hear it all the time, “Live more sustainably!” and “Save the environment!” What do they all really mean?Sustainability is considered to be the healthy & productive maintenance of something; the capacity to endure (indefinitely). We’re depleting resources on a daily basis – from nature, to energy and water. Sustainability serves up the goal of reducing our...
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Tagged:Green, Recycle, Recycling, Sustainability
Posted on Wednesday, August 26, 2015
By:
J.P. Mascaro
Categories:
Recycling
Each year, parents across the country dedicate to sending their children back to school with the latest and greatest - a new trendy backpack, shiny, crisp notebooks, a fresh box of unsharpened pencils. This season, hold on to the green rules you already know: Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle.
Wherever possible, reuse what you already have. Invest in the backpack you know will last, and...
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Tagged:Green, Recycle, Recycling, Education, School, Sustainability, Environment, Kids, Green Schools, blue bins