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Don’t toss reusable stuff into the trash. Donating or selling used items in good condition helps those in need, provides a source of revenue for charitable organizations or yourself, and may even give you a tax deduction. Purchasing used goods can also save you some money.
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Every year, an estimated 400 million units of obsolete electronics are scrapped. By 2010, this figure will rise to three billion units. While advances in technology continue to improve and enrich our lives, product lifecycles are getting shorter and shorter. And that means an increasing stockpile of end-of-life equipment that needs to be managed. When discarded, much of this equipment ends up in landfills in the US, or is exported to third world countries.
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One in four of the trucks traveling the world's roads is empty – a waste of money and a blot on the environment. In the highly fragmented truckload transportation industry, a huge amount of trips involves empty trucks. However, reducing the amount of truck repositioning is difficult because the need for a carrier to reposition its vehicles depends on the interactions between the shippers the carrier is serving.
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It's all about creating a unique story and product that can be shared with friends. Support environmental causes, help combat poverty, save the world and consume in a sustainable and conscious way. Consumers' desire to find out about the origins of a product to become a given. Questions no one ever asked a few years ago becomes integral part of the purchasing process. How was the product made? By whom? What effects on the environment will it have after purchasing?
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The Apple iPhone is the hottest smart phone going today, and with 65,000+ applications in the iTunes App Store and counting. The usefulness of this device goes up all the time and it means that there will be green apps on the iPhone, and of course there will be some clunkers. With all these apps floating around there must be some gems as well.
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Thousands of trees are cut down every year to produce the paper that makes books. Publishers have been announcing initiative after initiative aimed at making their book production environmentally friendly. One of the best so far is a program that allow you to contribute to a more sustainable book industry and earn money in the process.
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A septic tank, the key component of a septic system, is a small scale sewage treatment system common in areas with no connection to main sewage pipes provided by private corporations or local governments. In the US, approximately 25% of the population relies on septic tanks; this can include suburbs and small towns as well as rural areas. (Indianapolis is an example of a large city where much of the city's neighborhoods are still on separate septic systems) In Europe they are generally limited to rural areas only.
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San Francisco has pledged to recycle 75% of the materials that would otherwise go to a landfill. While the City has performed admirably with the current figure of 72% diversion, SF Environment is still working to get their message of recycling, reuse and proper disposal out to the public.
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Oil spills happen when people make mistakes or are careless and cause an oil tanker to leak oil into the ocean. These spills are usually dispersed but not cleaned up with detergents which makes oil settle to the bottom. Oils that are denser than water, such as Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), can be more difficult to clean as they make the seabed toxic.
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The spare change jingling in your pocket can benefit the environment. ‘Change for the Environment’ is a three-day Canadian initiative in Toronto, Belleville, and Quinte West, Canada that asks residents to donate their spare change, every bit of it will be spent on the environment.
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