Make sure to have smaller collection bins where need them [Purchase on Amazon.com] The main room in your home that will generate items to go in your home recycling center is your kitchen, and therefore I suggest the main area in your home where you collect recycling be in or near your ...
Yeo, the former minister, believes plastic waste imports should be limited until the new Basel rules are strictly enforced, not only in Malaysia but also in nearby recycling hubs like the Philippines and Indonesia. People are increasingly rankled by the trade, she says. “Why are we a dumping...
On March 2018, the E-Waste (Management) Amendment Rules were published pertaining to the amendment in the collection targets. These rules are applicable to every producer, consumer or bulk consumer, collection centre, dismantler and recycler of e-waste involved in the manufacture, sale and ...
The solution over the last decade has been to treat plastic film as a category of its own, with specific rules for collection, sorting and recycling. For consumers, those rules have revolved primarily around the store drop-off bins (though the ACC has more recently invested in curbside recycl...
But the Philippines is a collection of small islands, so plastic litter easily reaches small rivers there and ends up in the sea. Malaysia, similarly, has less of a problem with mismanaged waste, but large percentages of what is mismanaged ends up in the sea. So the average bit of ...
I also went over my ZERO WASTE ‘rules’ with my husband. He was willing to play along. He even sent me a text message this morning to clarify, “Does zero waste mean zero recycling?” To which I replied, “You can recycle as much as you want! You can compost as much as you wan...
What are the health hazards caused by e-waste? What are the effects if the product is dismantled by me. What are the environmental hazards caused by e-waste? Why do I need to dispose of our e-waste in a proper manner? Do I need drop e-waste product to collection centre or will you...
I remember my days of saving food scraps in a bag in my freezer to drop off at my local food scrap collection location in Brooklyn. Having to follow so many rules and Google what was acceptable on such a regular basis was a pain in the ass. "No meat, no dairy or cheese, no fats...
So if you bring in 50crushed beer cans, the per can value is low to negative. Bring in 10 tons and you got something. Also, the markets are volatile, but the collection efforts need to be long-term. You don’t want your garbage collector to be changing the rules every 2 weeks. ...
Jace said that he was inspired to start this project by a man he saw on YouTube, who shared his story of collecting can tabs for many years with the goal to dedicate his entire collection to charity. “This inspired me,” he explained. “I knew it was som...