Climate Change Archives - RecycleNation https://recyclenation.com/category/climate-change/ Search. Find. Recycle. Tue, 28 Feb 2023 22:14:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 How to Recycle Items That Aren’t Accepted In Your Blue Bin https://recyclenation.com/2023/02/how-to-recycle-items-that-arent-accepted-in-your-blue-bin/ Tue, 28 Feb 2023 22:10:05 +0000 https://recyclenation.com/?p=1014659 When an item in your blue bin shouldn’t be in that bin, two things happen. First, improperly recycled items can damage the recycling equipment. Second, workers have to remove the incorrectly recycled items and move them to trash bins to be hauled to the landfill, which raises operating costs.Items that are typically accepted in blue […]

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]]> What States Are Enacting New Recycling Rules in 2023? https://recyclenation.com/2023/02/1014639/ Wed, 01 Feb 2023 23:50:37 +0000 https://recyclenation.com/?p=1014639 Recycling is a big deal. During the pandemic, it also became a big issue. Landfills and recycling centers were overloaded, sick, and couldn’t keep up with the decluttering, online ordering, and work-from-home changes that had residential bins and wheeled containers overflowing. As things returned to the new normal, new challenges appeared. People didn’t want to keep […]

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]]> Ten Unusual Places Where Researchers Have Found Microplastics https://recyclenation.com/2021/07/ten-unusual-places-where-researchers-have-found-microplastics/ Tue, 27 Jul 2021 20:39:11 +0000 https://recyclenation.com/?p=1014543 Any plastic piece that’s less than five millimeters in length is known as microplastic. To better understand how tiny these pieces are, a grain of rice is a little larger. It’s about the size of a pencil eraser.Microplastics come from plastic that’s not recycled and breaks down. Small fragments chip or flake off as the […]

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]]> 5 Quick Ways to Learn More about Climate Change https://recyclenation.com/2019/12/5-quick-ways-to-learn-more-about-climate-change/ Wed, 18 Dec 2019 20:00:06 +0000 https://recyclenation.com/?p=1014172 Climate Change has become a hot topic of conversation.

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]]> New Funding to Prevent Ocean Waste https://recyclenation.com/2017/10/new-funding-to-prevent-ocean-waste/ Thu, 19 Oct 2017 22:45:01 +0000 https://recyclenation.com/?p=1013833 Humans have been hard on the world’s oceans...

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]]> Frequently Asked Questions About the U.S. Decision to Pull Out of the Paris Climate Agreement https://recyclenation.com/2017/06/frequently-asked-questions-about-the-u-s-decision-to-pull-out-of-the-paris-climate-agreement/ Tue, 20 Jun 2017 20:33:31 +0000 https://recyclenation.com/?p=1013692 Many people have questioned what impact President Trump’s decision will have on the U.S. and the rest of the world.

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]]> What You Need to Know About Plastics in the Ocean https://recyclenation.com/2017/03/what-you-need-to-know-about-plastics-in-the-ocean/ Wed, 22 Mar 2017 00:09:00 +0000 https://recyclenation.com/?p=1013516 There is a lot of trash in the ocean, but the most common material found in the water is plastic. In fact, it is estimated that in each square mile of the ocean, there are over 46,000 pieces of plastic. How does all of this plastic get into the ocean? Imagine that you see a […]

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]]> A Reminder That Earth Is The Best Planet https://recyclenation.com/2016/04/reminder-that-earth-is-best-planet/ Fri, 22 Apr 2016 15:47:13 +0000 https://recyclenation.com/2016/04/reminder-that-earth-is-best-planet In tribute to the best real estate in the galaxy, the European Space Agency has put together a short compilation of some of Earth’s many faces.

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]]> How Cities Are Fighting Climate Change https://recyclenation.com/2015/11/how-cities-are-fighting-climate-change/ Thu, 05 Nov 2015 05:18:15 +0000 https://recyclenation.com/2015/11/how-cities-are-fighting-climate-change How are U.S. cities attempting to lessen the impact of climate change?

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]]> Is Carbon Fiber Better for the Environment than Steel? https://recyclenation.com/2015/10/is-carbon-fiber-better-for-environment-than-steel/ Thu, 22 Oct 2015 05:14:01 +0000 https://recyclenation.com/2015/10/is-carbon-fiber-better-for-environment-than-steel What is carbon fiber? Can it be recycled?

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