The focus on power industry may be much more efficient than that of implementing laws to stop environmental pollution

Public concern rising over the past decade about the impact of air pollution on the environment, pressure is mounting on national and supranational governments need to take action to slow down the pace of climate change and improve air quality.

The spotlight has fallen on a much easier target – the power industry than that of implementing politically unpopular measures to tackle pollution from automobiles. In spite of Western European countries being considered as highly developed by global standards, utilities in a number of countries were only required to comply with fairly lax environmental standards, usually citing the defense that to place tough restrictions on the power industry which could harm the country in question’s ability to economic competence.

The EU has come forward to take some steps as they always do. This situation has now been challenged by the European Union (EU), which has passed a series of laws designed to reduce emission levels of greenhouse gases. Other factors like the introduction of emissions trading and higher electricity prices have created the best investment climate for power infrastructure spending for a number of years.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and complete the circle by purchasing recycled products

Isn’t it great news that it takes five two-liter bottles to make one extra large T-shirt? This not only an environment friendly concept but also a profitable project too. An environmentally friendly use for recycled materials has proven to be profitable over the last 10 years for Graham and Steve Jarrett.

They operate a corporation in Palm Coast, Florida called Clothes Made From Scrap, Inc. They make clothing, hats, and totes made from recycled plastic bottles and re-claimed cotton. Reclaimed cotton is scrap gathered from the manufacturing floor and re-polymerized as recycled cotton fiber.

The pioneer of this project is Graham Jarrett, who was exposed to some of the initial T-shirts manufactured by Hoecht, Inc., a German chemical company. Even, He decided to leave his career in finance as a chartered accountant.

“I started his new business and showed no profit his first year. A modest income was achieved every year thereafter. Clothes Made From Scrap, Inc. buys their recycled polyfiber from Wellman, Inc., a mill located in North Carolina. Wellman introduced the first polyester textile fiber made from post-consumer PET packaging in 1993", said Mr. Jarrett.

The organization gathers more than 2.5 billion PET bottles and containers in a year. The material purchased from Wellman by Clothes Made From Scrap, Inc. is marketed under the name of Fortrel® EcoSpun®. This fiber is used to make products such as blankets, T-shirts, soft luggage and socks.

Mr. Jarrett's mantra is "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and complete the circle by purchasing recycled products."

Gresham needs our help to make a pollution free environment.

An important thing to remember about using the blue dustbin is to keep glass in another container such as a curby or a bucket as well as and no plastic bags are allowed there.

We generally just grab the cans, cardboard, paper and plastic tubs and throw them into the big blue rolling container. And when the big tub is full, we just roll it out to the sidewalk and the process starts all over again. But we do not think of recycling the stuffs in an efficient way.
But do we know how to recycle it?

Well, the Staff members at the city of Gresham have thought a lot about this and provides us with some some guidelines to help recycling go as smoothly as possible. Recycling refresher on using the blue roll carts

Gresham’s blue roll carts were introduced first in summer 2007, the amount of residential recycling collected in the city has increased and feedback from the public has been overwhelmingly positive, says Recycling and Solid Waste city staff.

They also say-“To keep the community’s recycling success moving forward, Gresham’s haulers need your help on a few issues.”

There are some tips given by Gresham’s haulers:

* Never include plastic bags with recycling. These get tangled up in the processing equipment and cause serious problems for processors. You can recycle plastic bags at most grocery stores.

* Always keep glass bottles and jars in a separate curby/bin from other recyclables. Broken glass shards are too difficult to separate from other recyclables.

*Place garbage and recycling containers out with adequate space for the trucks to lift each bin. Many of the collection trucks are using automated arms and need 3 feet between containers, and no obstruction from trees, cars and basketball hoops, to work properly.

*Only put out your recycling roll cart when it is full.

*Make your weekly “garbage day,” and you get up early to roll out your blue recycling cart to the curb before the trucks start coming down the street to empty your container.

So let’s give our hand to Gresham’s haulers to get a pollution free environment.

COPELAND Council’s recycling has been very active throughout Copeland.

COPELAND Council’s recycling percentage have reached over 41%. And they have branded their refused and recycling vehicles newly to help drive up the rates even further.

According to Janice Carrol, the waste services manager for Copeland Council, “We’ve changed the panels on our waste vehicles to give a fresh, clear message about the importance of recycling and minimising waste.”

“As we wanted the message to be as relevant as possible, we’ve used our own employees and their families in the striking designs. Hopefully, this will help us raise our recycling rate even further.”

Between April 2009 and March 2010 over 41 percent of all waste collected by the authority was recycled. Copeland aims to increase this figure to 45 per cent by the end of the current financial year. The council has seen the amount of waste sent for landfill disposal decrease by 2000 tones. This is the equivalent of around 200 full refuse-vehicle loads. It gathers paper, glass and cans for recycling from the curbside of over 90 per cent of households in the borough.

It also runs recycling points in towns and villages throughout Copeland.

Keep the soil safe like South Australia

Which is the most top rubbish? Plastic bottles, poly bags, cans and so on. But according to the head of Clean UP Australia Day South Australia is the only state where drink containers are not among the top five types of rubbish collected.

Ian Kiernan has repeated invitation calls to other states to introduce levies to cut the number of cans and bottles that are dumped.


"To make cans out of recycled material, you can make seven cans out of the same energy it would take to make one new can," he said.

"So with global warming and emissions, that sort of thing, that's a very good reason to look to increasing your rates of recovery."






Cans harm the soil. So keeping the soil safe it has been an important step

Residents participating in the city of Dalton curbside recycling program.

People participating in the city of Dalton curbside recycling program gathered more than one million pounds of recyclables products during the first six months of 2010.

According to the city of Dalton Curbside Recycling Report, produced by the Dalton-Whitfield Regional Solid Waste Authority’s Materials Recovery Facility or Recycling Center,Some 550.1 tons or 1.1 million pounds of recyclables were collected during the months of January to June.

Recycling takes a product at the end of its utility and makes the best use of it by utilizing all or part of it to make another product instead of more garbage. Plastic bottles, such as water and soda bottles, yield enough fiber to make one extra large T-shirt, one square foot of carpet, or enough fiber to fill one ski jacket. That’s the equivalent of a stack of newspapers 5.95 miles long.

The destination for this year is 1,200 tons or 2,4 million pounds. Products collected for recycling include papea square foot carpet, aluminum cans, bi-metal, Dalton curbside recycling program, glass bottles, jars, large T-shirt, plastic and glass bottles, plastic bottles, recyclables, ski jacket, tin cansr, magazines, newspaper, cardboard, plastic bottles and jugs with the No. 1 or No. 2 recycling symbol, aluminum cans, bi-metal or tin cans, and glass bottles and jars that are clear, brown, green or blue.

At present recycling unused products has been an important issue to save the environment. It helps to protect the environment, a profitable business as well.

The Sierra Club and Environment Texas punishes Exxon Mobil Corporation.

The Sierra Club and Environment Texas announced to the public about their intention to sue Exxon Mobil Corporation for violations of the Clean Air Act by their refinery and chemical plant complex in Baytown. This decision was based on self-reported violations from the oil giant to the state of Texas over period of about five years.

The plant in Baytown is the largest oil refinery in the nation consisting of over 562,500 barrels refined a day.

Sierra Club and Environment Texas started their complaints by notifying Exxon Mobil of their intent to sue for over 400 emission incidents of equipment breakdowns and malfunctions in the November. Then, on July 2, the groups sent a second notice of intent to sue with several hundred additional emission violations listed.

"It's simple" said environmental attorney Josh Kratker.

In fact, Sierra Club and Environment Texas want to stop the environmental pollution that is billowing out of the refinery and chemical plants at astonishing rates.

Exxon Mobil has released more than ten million pounds of air pollutants over their already generous limit. Exxon Mobil's own reports says, they have released pollutants including Benzene, Butadiene, Nitrogen oxides, volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and carbon monoxide. Benzene and Butadiene are known carcinogens while Nitrogen oxides, VOCs and carbon monoxide help form ground-level ozone which is dangerous for the environment as well as a contributing factor of other health problems.

So it can be said that this measures taken by The Sierra Club and Environment Texas would be very much helpful to prevent pollution from the environment.