A state-of-the-art plastic recycling facility near Watts, Oklahoma is scheduled to be completed by the first quarter of 2010. This was announced recently by Advanced Environmental Recycling Technologies, Inc. (AERT), a leading plastic recycler firm based in Springdale, Arkansas.

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A recent study released by Pike Research, a market research and consulting firm, has confirmed that most American electronic consumers are aware of the burgeoning e-waste problem and believe the best course of action is recycling.

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The Bottle Bank Arcade in Stockholm, Sweden
We’ve always believed that our children will learn how to recycle and care for the environment quite quickly if fun is injected into the teaching-learning process by parents. Obviously, we adults tend to also absorb ideas faster or change our habits for the better if there’s fun in doing [...]

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Every charity organization or non-profit seems to be doing cell phone or computer collection drives these days. Is it still worthwhile for your organization to collect old cell phones to help raise funds?

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Every year, 100 million cell phones are replaced or discarded in the United States. Less than 20% of this total are recycled or sent back to the manufacturers – the rest are lost, thrown to trash bins, or kept in drawers.

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Community urban garden in Philadelphia
Here are the our top 10 pick of the most interesting and informative recycling and environmental stories at Green Options Environment:

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Severn Cullis-Suzuki was only 12 years old when she spoke before the UN earth Summit in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992. A child speaking before adults representing all the countries in the world – yet her speech was anything but childish. It was a galvanizing admonition and an appeal to everyone to help [...]

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In line with our activities to fully integrate this blog to the web 2.0 communities on the internet, we’ve recently established our own bookmarking site called Green Options to put together in one convenient location all the latest and the best recycling and environmental stories published across the web. Powered by Corank, users of the [...]

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