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6 Gallon Desksider Recycling Bin review

Monday, April 25th, 2011

If you are looking to add a recycling bin beside your desk or in a small space you should take a look at the 6 Gallon Desksider/Apartment Recycler. This is an ultra-low priced unit that is amazingly versatile and fits right into your simple home or office recycling needs. Due to its convenient design and extreme portability you can use the 6 Gallon Desksider virtually anywhere indoors where you need a small, non-intrusive recycling bin.

The 6 Gallon Desksider/Apartment Recycler is so useful and convenient that many people use more than one. You can place a 6 Gallon Desksider in any room of the house, and it is the perfect starter recycling bin for the children’s room. Or, as well as being a fine stand-alone for your desk and home recycling needs it serves as a great complementary piece in a large household recycling system for those guest rooms or seldom-used spaces.

There seems to be no end to the convenience and versatility of the neat little 6 Gallon Desksider/Apartment Recycler. It is a cheap and easy way to add recycling to any room in the house in a non-intrusive manner. As long as you have one by your desk or creative space you’ll never forget to recycle.

You might also want to check out this neat little recycling bin for your home and office needs:

Rubbermaid Desktop Recycling Center review

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The best multi-sort recycling bins for outdoors

Saturday, April 23rd, 2011

Outdoor recycling presents a few challenges since your recycling bins will be exposed to the elements, and people will be recycling different kinds of products such as glass, cans, paper, and plastic. Thankfully with the right multi-sort containers outdoor recycling actually becomes very easy.

Multi-sort containers are durable outdoor recycling stations having enormous capacity to collect and sort various types of waste. They are ideally suitable for outdoor applications and can be deployed at places like government offices, parks, streets, stadiums, educational institutions, parking lots, highway rest areas, etc.

Multi-sort containers are extremely tough and durable recycle bins as they are manufactured from 16 gauge heavy-duty galvanized steel. The lockable doors help in removing the contents and at the same time protect the refuse from being mishandled. The door hinges are made from stainless steel.

These recycle bins can be bolted to cement or other material to keep it stable and secure at its place. To prevent contamination, rubber baffles are used over openings.

Buy this recycling station for easy sorting and successful waste management which eliminates all of your outdoor recycling problems.

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Today’s recycling bins benefit recycling programs

Tuesday, April 19th, 2011

It is more and more common to see recycling programs in communities throughout the nation. Recycling programs are steadily being implemented in more towns and business across the country. If your town or businesses is not currently part of a program, either with scheduled pickups of recycling containers or routine trips to a waste center, getting one started can greatly benefit the community — and the world as a whole.

A common complaint against many programs was the inconvenience of sorting waste between regular trash receptacles and recycling bins. However, that problem has been long since corrected with today’s designs in recycling bins and recycling containers.

Multi-compartment recycling containers allow for easy, instant sorting at the point of waste disposal. Homeowners and small business offices have been using nesting, stackable, and clip-on recycling containers to handle their sorting needs as well.

Many people who still claim that programs are inconvenient are most likely not aware of today’s recycling bins and are thinking of old recycling containers that were just regular trash receptacles painted blue. Plus, many programs are now single-stream, meaning that there is no need for sorting waste into separate recycling bins prior to disposal.

Landfills are slowly filling up and more and more people are coming to realize that we can’t just bury our trash forever. The impact of recycled materials on the environment as a whole is tremendous. Goods made from recycled materials do not deplete our natural resources, reduce our dependence on foreign materials and energy, and help stimulate economic activity.

With so many benefits, recycling programs will continue to expand through more cities and towns and businesses of all sizes.

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Barclay Three Section Recycling Center review

Saturday, April 16th, 2011

The Barclay Series Fiberglass Three Section Recycling Center is an elegantly designed recycling station which is both pleasing to the eye and well-built to fit nicely into any high-frequency workplace indoors or outdoors. To help insure proper recycling practices it is especially shaped for easy container ID, and its sleek fiberglass build is sturdy enough for frequent use while also being very stylish.

The Barclay Series Fiberglass Three Section Recycling Center has a center with three dedicated disposal openings perfect for sorting different recyclables. Each different disposal contains its own rigid plastic leak-proof lining. Paper goods go in the center while the end units are for disposal of trash and aluminum cans.

The Barclay Series Fiberglass Three Section Recycling Center can be placed indoors or outdoors at in any public or business location to make recycling fit smoothly into a professional environment.

The individual recycling decals are included with the center. Here are the Barclay specs:

Gallon capacity: two 23 gallon sections
Rigid plastic liner
Included decal available in black or white
Disposal Opening Dimensions: Trash – 8 in. Dia., Cans – 4 in. Dia., Paper – 12.5 in. L x 2 in. W
37.5 in. H x 52 in. W x 20 in. D

This is one of the most elegant and efficient recycling modules in today’s market. With its attractive appearance and versatility you can just place the Barclay Center where you nee it most and let recycling be both responsible and fashionable.

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Recycling symbols and recycling bins

Tuesday, April 12th, 2011

One of the important things to understand about recycling is what each symbol stands for and what each recycling bin is used for. Here is a handy post on what paper recycling symbols mean:

Paper Recycling Symbols Guide

Also don’t miss this post on choosing the right recycling bin:

Choosing the Right Recycling Bin

Also, check out this video guide to plastic recycling symbols:

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Choosing the right recycling bins for your needs

Thursday, April 7th, 2011

Getting the proper recycling bins is important in your home or office recycling program. While starting a recycling program in the first place is a big step and a noble effort, it also pays to use the right types of bins.

Recycling bins are available in different sizes and different colors for use in homes, offices, parks, beaches, and large facilities. Recycling bins are typically used for plastic bottles, aluminum cans, glass and paper.

All you have to do is to recycle used materials that can be recycled in recycling bins. It sounds simple, but according to the Natural Marketing Institute, only about half of Americans are recycling all the time. Everyone wants to help the environment and reduce waste, so why do so few of us recycle? Well, you need good planning to start properly recycling at home or office. To recycle effectively, you must first have the appropriate recycling bin available for use.

Recycling bins are designed so they are easy to learn and are marked with slogans promoting recycling. Proper placement of recycling bins is therefore necessary to increase the percentage of Americans who actually recycle on a daily basis. It takes very little work and just a little planning, and with good placement of recycling containers in the home, office, park, beach, restaurant, or large public facility, you may reach nearly 100% recycling compliance.

First, you must purchase the appropriate recycling bins to the needs of your individual installation. With recycling bins come in many shapes and sizes, you can be sure to find the bin for you. You must decide if you need a recycling bin to be small house recycling bin for cans and bottles at home or to a recycling station for the big Rubbermaid recycling bins office for retraining.

Whatever type you need, you can surely find what you are looking for, then put them in the right place to make it simple and easy for employees, family members, or customers to recycle their cans, bottles and the paper without having to take additional measures or think twice. Remember the key, proper placement of recycling bins is required for efficient recycling.

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Paper recycling symbols guide

Monday, April 4th, 2011

With so many products touting their green credentials it pays to know what all those ‘green’ symbols mean, so we can cut through the greenwashing and determine for ourselves how green the products we buy really are. These are 5 of the most common symbols found on paper products.

Universal Recycling Symbols: These are the most common images found on paper products and they are used interchangeably to indicate that a product is recyclable or able to be recycled. It does not indicate any that the product contains any recycled material.
Recycled Paper Symbol:A white recycling symbol in a black circle indicates that a product is made from 100% recycled paper content.
Partially Recycled Paper Content: This symbol indicates that a product or packaging was made using a percentage of recycled paper. The percentage is usually displayed in or around the recycling symbol.
Processed Chlorine Free: This symbols indicates that recycled and virgin fibres in the product were bleached without chlorine or chlorine compounds.
Post Consumer Recycled Paper: Products and packaging made with post consumer recycled papers suggest that all or a percentage of the product includes paper that has been through the consumer cycle.