Techniques, such as curbside recycling, drop-off recycling, buy-back centers, and deposit/refund centers, are helping organizations to funnel in maximum amount of trash for recycling. Plastic banks exchange plastic trash for other products, cash, or services to prevent littering. Thus, the widespre...
Hence, here it is possible for the material companies to establish their recycling centers just outside the city center but still avoid long transport distances from households to recycling centers. In big cities, the establishment of drop-off stations outside the city center implies much longer ...
In the USA in the early eighteenth century, steel production centers were being established based on charcoal ironblast furnaces. One of the first of these was the Spotswood furnace at Germanna, Virginia, in 1716 (Holowaty and Squarcy 1961). Continuing development of the fledgling industry occurr...