Here are our choices for the most interesting and relevant articles on recycling, the environment, and renewable energy submitted to the Environment section over at Green Options, this past week:

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Twitter has been the focus of much attention lately as celebrities, politicians, and marketers have flocked to the site to spread their messages to the world 140 characters at a time. If you’re running a charity or non-profit, can you benefit from having a Twitter account? More importantly, can you use Twitter to gather support [...]

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Extended preview to PBS’ “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea” by Ken Burns
Happy Thanksgiving, America!

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Gondolas navigate a flooded Times Square in this concept image by Studio Lindfors
Our top 10 pick of the most interesting and informative recycling and environmental stories at Green Options Environment:

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Aluminum beverage cans for recycling
Californians are the leading recyclers of beverage containers in this country. In the first half of 2009, the state recycled a total 8.2 billion beverage containers at an amazing recycling rate of 85%, according to the Department of Conservation’s Biannual Report of Beverage Container Sales, Returns, Redemption & Recycling Rates.

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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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