There are several ways concrete can be recycled. It does not matter whether the concrete has come from a construction site or an old road, it is possible to recycle and keep the waste from concrete out of our landfills.

The US EPA has stated that nearly 4.6 million tons of e-waste was placed in landfills by the year 2000. In recent years, the number of tons has increased dramatically. E-waste is comprised of electronic devices such as cell phones and television sets. Broken or obsolete computers and their hard drives are one of the largest portions of products in …Read the Full Article

Mother Nature has always been the ultimate recycler; but since the dawn of civilization, recycling has also played an important role in the lives of humans. Recycling is the act of processing used products in an effort to combat energy and raw material waste. A brief look at the history of recycling reveals that the veracity with which a given …Read the Full Article

During the 50s and 60s, the United States’ industrial engine created high amounts of petroleum based, highly toxic refuge. After struggling with this echo disaster for decades, the 70s and 80s saw a shift from petroleum to plastics as the most significant waste disposal problem. Landfills exploded with non-biodegradable plastic products. The 21st century is witnessing the dawn of the …Read the Full Article

What if nothing ever wore out or became obsolete? What a wonderful world that would be, right? Well, maybe not. If no one ever had to replace anything ever again, the economy would pretty soon come to an almost complete stop. Most of the companies that make things would go out of business and the workers they employ would be …Read the Full Article

Rechargeable batteries play a key role in modern living. Most people don’t know they actually came into existence in the nineteenth century. The lead-acid battery, invented in 1859 by Gaston Planté, was found to be rechargeable by pushing a reverse current through it. The battery was so named because its cathode and anode were both made of lead, and surrounded …Read the Full Article

To recycle or not recycle: that is the question. This has been a debate that dates back to the 90s and it continues today. The major argument suggests that recycling is costing too much money, more than it will cost to dump the trash. It also suggests that recycling doubles the use of energy and causes more pollution than what …Read the Full Article