What’s a big environmentally friendly company that you’ve probably never heard of?
N-Viro Here’s a link:
N-Viro has generated sales in excess of $40 million since it’s IPO. They take biosolids (sewage sludge) and use lime and other mineral rich combustion byproducts to convert that sludge into biominerals for agriculture.
The resulting product(s) N-Viro Soil is used around the world in farm applications and landscaping, topsoil ammending and in home gardens.
Good news all you recycling fiends out there! We’re winning! Recent news is that over fifty percent of all aluminum cans are being recycled! That’s a real green solution!
That’s a great percentage.
Those of us who are like Jeff Goldblum’s character David Levinson in Independence day, when we fish someone else’s coke can out of the trash just like, are making a difference.
Yes, The Aluminum Association, Can Manufacturers Institute and the Institute of Scrap Recycling recently announced that in 2008, 54.2 percent of aluminum cans were recycled.
Aluminum can be reused over and over. An empty coke can can be recycled and back on the store shelves in two months. Recycling used cans into new ones uses 95 percent less energy to create as well.
Keep recycling America!
What countries do a great job of recycling?
Austria!
They recycle about sixty percent of their daily waste.
The UK!
They recycle almost 18 % of their waste. Ireland, Italy and Portugal come real close to that too.
Much of the waste recycled in the UK is fueled by incentives. There’s a landfill tax, so businesses are urged to save both the earth and their budgets by recycling as much as possible.
China!
Many folks run the recycling industry in China. Citizens collect recyclables off the street. They earn typically about $150 a month, about half of what a typical cabbie makes. Beijing plans to increase it’s recycling effords from a wholesome ten percent to a whopping 80 percent by next year.
Brazil!
Half of all the trash generated in Brazil is recycled. There are upwards of half a million recycling collectors in their $3 billion industry.
Africa!
Africans can see the light in their glass recycling efforts. They’re annual glass recyling rate shines! They went from 148,000 tons of glass to 183,000 tons in just one year.
Egypt!
In Egypt, trash collectors purchase the right to collect trash. Trash is a profitable business in Egypt.
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