So you have made your resolution to GO GREEN this year; you are eating organic, you are recycling magazines, newspapers, you are conserving electricity…….you are making all efforts to lead a green life.
Well, you are at a leading grocery store and you are asked: “Do you want paper or plastic bags for your groceries”? Since you have adopted all green initiatives this year, you choose paper bags thinking that paper is a natural product and bio-...
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With the gas prices hitting a new roof, cash strapped consumers are feeling intense pain each time they refill the gas tank.
Ø Should we stop driving? No, we can never. Ø Should we car-pool? Yes, if possible. Ø Get your air filter changed? Yes! Ø Get your engine tuned? Yes!!
These are some of the suggestions we hear all the time.
How about driving “SLOWER” In a typical family sedan, every 10 miles per hou...
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Yep, you heard me. Since this is my year of living greenly, I’m going to stop using disposable plastic water bottles. Did you know 8 out of every 10 plastic water bottles become landfill waste? It then takes 700 years for a plastic water bottle to even BEGIN to decompose in a landfill. These are devastating statistics. The alternatives to using plastic water bottles are simple. Begin drinking out of dura...
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As a leader in outdoor print, many clients have asked us about “Eco” vinyl products. My first word of advice is to question any product that carries a moniker such as “Eco” or “Bio”, whether its vinyl, soapsuds, or hybrid cars. Products like Polyethylene and Polypropylene, also known as Polyolefin’s, need an ink receptive coating and reinforcement to make them remotely viable for printing, which makes them undesirable to recycle. In addition, ...
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Welcome to my first blog!
This year I made a resolution to live greenly. I'm not going to move out of the city and become a tree hugger, but it is a huge goal of mine to become more active in recycling and to reduce my daily impact on the environment. By making some simple, easy changes you can incorporate green living into your normal routine. Below I've listed a few common sense ways you can be green at work.
Recycling office paper - ...
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Skeptical by nature, finance professionals were never too eager to jump on the environmental bandwagon for one reason alone: there is no green in going green. Increased R&D budgets and growing overhead cost resulting from recycling efforts rarely can be passed to customers, as the reality shows that an average consumer will rarely pay premium for a green product. But the reality also shows that the demand for “green business practices”...
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When did recycling begin? Recycling has been in existence ever since human civilization started. BUT recycling attained its big name in corporate America roughly 3-4 decades ago.
After World War II, landfills were the cheapest way to dispose of trash. Recycling gained its momentum during the 70’s and 80’s when it became cheaper to recycle glass, plastic, and cans due to improved technology.
When scientists and environmentalist...
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As we all know, Outdoor advertising displays are typically printed on large pieces of material made of plastic. The two most common materials, also known as substrates, are PVC (polyvinyl chloride) and PE (polyethylene). Both materials can be recycled and/or downcycled into aftermarket products. During the recycling processes of both substrates, one of largest challenges is separating the scrim (the layer of weaved material providing str...
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After a decade of designing home products and soft goods for wholesale businesses nationwide, I moved my focus to industrial waste solutions and the need to recycle and reclaim materials that were dumped in landfills in bulk. It was a combined effort between 3 friends, Jeff & Robin Janson and myself, who I have been working with for many years. We formed Vy&Elle (a play on the word “VINYL”) as a company to recycle vinyl billboards ...
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