by admin | Oct 4, 2022 | Uncategorized
The holiday season is a great time to spend with loved ones, celebrate, and eat delicious food. It’s also, however, a time when waste can pile up—think, decorations, food waste, and wrapping paper. Fortunately, with some good-to-know tips and intentionality, there are...
by admin | Sep 30, 2022 | Uncategorized
When living through a pandemic, the confinement of your own home can leave you deprived of that fresh air the great outdoors can provide – and while coronavirus has left us questioning the safety of all travel, camping is one great summer activity that has proven to...
by admin | Sep 27, 2022 | Uncategorized
As buildings continue to go up – particularly here in Melbourne – the demand for responsible construction and environmentally sound practices continues to skyrocket as well. Market research has shown that construction revenue is rising and builders want to use that...
by admin | Sep 23, 2022 | Uncategorized
The price of scrap metal is in constant fluctuation, so you can’t always estimate how much money you’ll get for whatever scrap you’re planning to sell. That said, having an idea of the market and the factors that influence the price of scrap metal at any given time...
by admin | Sep 19, 2022 | Uncategorized
Moving is an often tiring chore. And after a move, you’ll likely find your new home is filled with not just your furniture and belongings, but with boxes and packing paper. You might even find yourself still hanging on to some old furniture that has not quite made it...
by admin | Sep 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
Metal is one of the most widely recycled materials in the world. It can be used and reused endlessly without ever degrading, and the scrap metal industry takes full advantage of this. Today, the scrap metal industry remains both lucrative and efficient, working at a...
by admin | Sep 12, 2022 | Uncategorized
Wasting food is a problem. Approximately a third of all food is wasted globally, and the EPA estimates 15% of that waste is coming from the restaurant industry. That’s 39.7 million tons of food that could have been consumed, recycled, or composted. Those numbers may...
by admin | Sep 8, 2022 | Uncategorized
Different communities vary in how they define zero waste and what achieving that looks like for them. At the heart of zero waste though, a global movement that began in the 21st century, is the shared goal of decreasing the total amount of waste created, whether that...
by admin | Sep 4, 2022 | Uncategorized
Before single-stream recycling was developed in the 1990s, recycling was a much more involved task, requiring the separation of recyclables like plastic, glass, and paper. Recent findings show that 91% of plastic—which takes over 400 years to degrade—ends up in...
by admin | Aug 31, 2022 | Uncategorized
Most tech devices, such as smartphones and computers, aren’t built to last forever. The average lifespan of an Apple iPhone, iPad, or Mac is about four years and three months. We’re in a perpetual cycle of increasingly relying on our devices and replacing them once we...
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