Posts Tagged ‘Waste’

Recycling Construction & Demolition Waste : A LEED-Based Toolkit

Saturday, September 4th, 2010

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Recycling Construction & Demolition Waste : A LEED-Based Toolkit

Paper, Packaging, Energy, Waste, Recycling, Sustainability – conference speaker

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010


Future trends in paper and packaging industry- entire 30 minute presentation. www.globalchange.com Paper and packaging industry. Future of sustainable packaging, paper, logistics. Demographics, digital impact, distribution and destiny. Demographics 1 billion new consumers. Emerging markets growth and demand for commodities resources / paper and cardboard. Growth of emerging middle class and paper products growth. Oil price rises, growing populations, food supply, growth of meat eaters, shortage of grain, rice, wheat, soya. Energy shortage and conservation. Developed world population decline — eg Germany, small families and ageing population, decline unless migration / immigration. France, Portugal, Spain, UK demographic challenges in European Union. Expect huge immigration, populations shifts. Video on future of paper and packaging industry by Patrick Dixon, author Futurewise, conference keynote speaker. Economic and population growth with decline in developed nations creates future differences in paper demand. India and China paper use compared to America / US and EU — 300kg paper use per year compared to 4kg in India. Emerging economies growth in paper and cardboard packaging. India paper consumption trends. Energy costs impact on pulp, paper, cardboard and packaging industries. Future oil price trends. Global energy savings. Impact on paper industry — Future of newspapers and newsprint industry in US, UK, Australia, Japan, France and rest of EU. Fall of newspaper

Madden on Returnable Packaging and Reducing 30% Landfill Waste

Saturday, August 7th, 2010

David Madden is the founder and President of Container Exchanger (COM containerexchanger.), An online marketplace for reusable packaging systems, such as collapsible bulk containers, boxes, metal containers, plastic pallets, and use of the hand. Founded in 2005, Madden led the company through the startup phase and into its current status as the definitive one-stop-shop for used containers and boxes. Madden started Container Exchanger after five years of experience in the automotive industry, where the Madden main tasks around waste reduction beginnings. He soon realized that a unique source of waste in the auto industry has lied in reusable packaging systems. After the package has already been used for several years, the packaging was good, but it was no longer necessary. The containers are stacked and are often used for scrap value or less sold. Madden started Container Exchanger to fill this gap, and find the retail customers used for the packaging, which increases the money that the containers were sold, and lower cost of packaging for buyers. Madden holds a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from North Carolina State University, an MBA from Georgia Tech and received his black belt certificate from the DaimlerChrysler Quality Institute. Returnable packaging reduces waste created by every business. The Earthworks Group estimates that 30% of the landfill created by plastic and paper packaging. The use of cardboard boxes and other packaging materials contribute to a timetable for these wastes. Folding bulk containers, industrial bags and metal storage bins are used repeatedly in a facility or between a supplier and a customer. They can be used literally thousands of times. These bulk boxes are much cheaper in the long run compared to buying cardboard boxes and wooden crates every time that the product is shipped. Cost savings can be observed in the packaging of each. Although the initial investment can cost in boxes more, savings can quickly be achieved by repeated use (the same bulk containers, metal bins, and bags are reusable), labor (no more box assembly), handling (fewer moves from stackable containers), quality declines (less due to damaged packaging) and Area (plastic and metal containers can stack very high). The cost per unit for bulk packaging containers can be used and containers as low as 5% of the cost of a comparable solution for sustainable port volumes. Container Exchanger (www. containerexchanger. Com) is dedicated to the sale and resale of reusable packaging and containers. The company sells folding bulk containers, metal storage bins, plastic industrial boxes, plastic pallets, crates and used Gaylord countries. If a company is finished with a returnable packaging fleet, Container Exchanger represents the seller and finds a buyer for the used bulk packaging. Sellers enjoy a high sales price for a better return on investment. The buyers substantial savings compared to prices of new packaging. Container Exchanger www. containerexchanger. com David Madden, President pr @ containerexchanger. com 404-551-5599

Container Exchanger Reducing 30% Landfill Waste From Reusable Packaging

Wednesday, August 4th, 2010

Returnable packaging reduces waste created by every business. The Earthworks Group estimates that 30% of the landfill created by plastic and paper packaging. The use of cardboard boxes and other packaging materials contribute to a timetable for these wastes. David Madden is the founder and President of Container Exchanger (COM containerexchanger.), An online marketplace for reusable packaging systems, such as collapsible bulk containers, boxes, metal containers, plastic pallets, and use of the hand. Founded in 2005, Madden led the company through the startup phase and into its current status as the definitive one-stop-shop for used containers and boxes. Madden started Container Exchanger after five years of experience in the automotive industry, where the Madden main tasks around waste reduction beginnings. He soon realized that a unique source of waste in the auto industry has lied in reusable packaging systems. After the package has already been used for several years, the packaging was good, but it was no longer necessary. The containers are stacked and are often used for scrap value or less sold. Madden started Container Exchanger to fill this gap, and find retail buyers for these used packaging, which increases the money that the containers were sold, and lower cost of packaging for buyers. Madden holds a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from North Carolina State University, an MBA from Georgia Tech and received his black belt certificate from the DaimlerChrysler Quality Institute. Folding bulk containers, industrial bags and metal storage bins are used repeatedly in a facility or between a supplier and a customer. They can be used literally thousands of times. These bulk boxes are much cheaper in the long run compared to buying cardboard boxes and wooden crates every time that the product is shipped. Cost savings can be observed in the packaging of each. Although the initial investment can cost in boxes more, savings can quickly be achieved by repeated use (the same bulk containers, metal bins, and bags are reusable), labor (no more box assembly), handling (fewer moves from stackable containers), quality declines (much because of damaged packaging) and space (plastic and metal containers can stack very high). The cost per piece packaging for bulk containers and tanks can be used as low as 5% of the cost of a comparable solution for sustainable port volumes. Container Exchanger (www. containerexchanger. Com) is dedicated to the sale and resale of reusable packaging and containers. The company sells folding bulk containers, metal storage bins, plastic industrial boxes, plastic pallets, crates and used Gaylord countries. If a company is finished with a returnable packaging fleet, Container Exchanger represents the seller and finds a buyer for the used bulk packaging. Sellers enjoy a high sales price for a better return on investment. The buyers substantial savings compared to prices of new packaging. Container Exchanger www. containerexchanger. com David Madden, President pr @ containerexchanger. com 404-551-5599

The Economics of Waste

Friday, July 30th, 2010

Times of work produced this concise DescriptionIn, commitment and provocative, Richard Porter provides readers with economic instruments that can be applied to problems in dealing with a wide range of waste-related businesses and households. Emphasizing the impossibility of achieving a secure environment stresses, Porter, that in the real world decisions about waste. Recognizing that effective waste policy knowledge from many disciplines, Port integrated. . . More>>

The Economics of Waste

Is Recycling a Waste of Time, Money and Energy?

Monday, June 21st, 2010

UK households generate a staggering thirty million tonnes of waste per year, of which sixty per cent comes from packaging. There has been much publicity recently about waste that had been brought in for recycling end up in landfills. He is also obvious that a growing number are sent to other countries to their disposal. It may be cheaper to recycle than to other countries or fill landfills in the UK to carry. The European Union (EU) has recently ordered the citizens of the United Kingdom to roughly double their recycling rate by 2008. Governments in the EU and America have announced their intention to require more recycling. Unless the UK hits these targets municipal taxes in the United Kingdom will skyrocket to enable when the local authorities have met their recycling targets, the United Kingdom in order to achieve the objectives of the EU. The British government already levies taxes to encourage the introduction of waste into landfills us, more recycling, and this tax is on the rise. This is to punish local councils which is on the landfill and the Council of taxpayers pay the price for poor performance does not continue to use them or have the means to do so. It is therefore cheaper to recycle it in landfills for disposal. The UK currently recycles 22 percent of their household waste, while some EU countries recycle more than half. The United Kingdom proposes that the reduction of waste going to landfills by 72 percent today to 25 percent by 2020. Some things to think about the future? - Why are we using all that paper-recycling energy to save the trees? It is the argument that the paper be recycled must be such that we save trees and forests, but we are growing the trees only on newspaper and other items to produce. Is it a sustainable resource that already? - New landfills are built in the U.S., and this should be in the United Kingdom on a large scale that the United Kingdom on the pipe methane gas they produce to local power stations, which would allow for housing in a future occur Green and environmentally friendly. - We must ensure that the recycling programs that are run are delivered effectively. This means that tracking the chain of waste to its final destination. Transparency should inform the industry of waste management. - When studying a business and concluded that it costs more than to bury used and manufacture the new from scratch, then we could start dumps for plastic recycling, one for glass, etc., if we can not fail we can all dig at once for recycling. For example, if the rest means the occupation of plastic and scarcity of oil, that there is still more profitable than we recycle both by mining landfills and it would be cheaper and easier to recycle then. - Currently, only a strip of five percent of British households had access to the collections of pavement, if collections do not cover glass, paper, plastic, etc. then go as far to the recycling center nearest you and how much you need for free at home to ensure that you do more damage while the vehicle is the amount of energy you save by recycling? What to take with the financial costs of collection or recycling to the recycling center? What is the energy required to recycle? Is it really the oil runs out? As the relief is available?