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.

The Tasmanian Greens wants government help to recycle cans and plastic bottles and containers

The Tasmanian Greens have requested the State Government to pursue a container recycling scheme. State’s Environment ministers have been to a meeting in Darwin to discuss a national 10 cent refund where cans and plastic bottles are recycled. Most importantly, A Federal Government-commissioned report found it would cost about $680 million per year to run.

Greens spokesman, Tim Morris, says “Tasmania should join the Northern Territory and South Australian Governments which are pushing ahead with container deposit schemes”.

"We're saying this should also be Tasmania's position we need to come into line with South Australia," he said.

"They have a fantastic container deposit system and recovery system that's meant that their recovery of cans and bottles is up in the 70 percents whereas ours is much lower."

So Greens want container recycling center. No doubt, that it is important for the environment.

Stop worrying about plastic and glass bottles

The corporate office being built in Henderson, built up with recycled glass like that being poured out of the bottle. Some 200,000 pounds of Green Stone compose the facade of the 30,000-square-foot office. Empty bottles from Strip bars become building materials
But thanks to a new product that recycled glass containers from two Strip resorts into a decorative rock called Green Stone, that's exactly where those mementos likely landed.

To see how Green Stone works and looks, we have to head down to the $2 million Henderson headquarters of its manufacturer, building-trim and -finish maker Realm of Design. Roughly 200,000 pounds of Green Stone compose the facade for Realm of Design's new corporate office, a castle-like building under construction on Center Point Drive. The 30,000-square-foot building is scheduled to be completed in August.

For Scott McCombs, co-owner of Realm of Design, Green Stone goes beyond this exclusive business opportunity.

"The expense we incur crushing glass into sand is very expensive compared to buying sand," McCombs said. "But it seemed like the right thing to do. Typically, all the glass used here (in Las Vegas) is going into a landfill."

To make Green Stone, Realm of Design crushes the bottles into sand and mixes the crushed glass with cement. As with the glass in Green Stone, the cement is reused, while conventional cement is manufactured from ground rock that's heated to nearly 3,000 degrees, Green Stone's cement comes from ash generated by coal-fired power plants -- ash that's also made for landfills. The result? So here is produced a building product that's virtually 100 percent reused materials.

But experts says, Green Stone's best attribute may be its broader effect on local recycling.

"If we can recycle materials on a greater scale in Las Vegas and provide that as a feedstock to industries that use recycled material for products, we would be that much more attractive to companies looking to bring a plant here," Dorinson said.

Plastic and glass bottles are available. If there is a way to reuse them it would be very much helpful for the environment.

Like most environmentally friendly products, Green Stone has its price which is really very low. It costs Realm of Design 6 cents to 7 cents per pound to make, while sand made of the traditional pulverized rock or silica costs ¼ of a cent per pound to buy.

"I'm making a smaller profit in order to get a new thing to sell," McCombs said.

The company aims at producing shipping glass. At present waste has been a big trouble. If we have an option to recycle bar bottles and plastic bottles, it is definitely good news for us. Besides, this eco-friendly product is very cheap to afford by all