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Recycling blog
Tue, 12/20/2011 - 06:25
I have been in the recycling business for close to 10 years now and it's always amazing to me the different ways people view recycling from a monetary basis. There are basically three views points out there:
- "If you are recycling my junk, electronic waste, light bulbs or anything else, you should be paying me for it.”
- "If you are recycling...
Tue, 12/13/2011 - 12:29
There are two main reasons for a company to use a product destruction service.
Reason 1- the product is not safe for the end consumer.
Reasons for safety can vary. High lead content is a popular safety issue that leads a company to opt for...
Mon, 12/12/2011 - 06:22
Not too long ago Santa Ana College came to E-Cycle Environmental with an interesting junk removal service situation. They were in the process of renovating their gymnasium and part of the process involved installing an entirely new gym floor. Due to Santa Ana’s...
Wed, 12/07/2011 - 11:35
When one thinks about all the different types of products out there, it becomes apparent there is no cookie cutter solution for product destruction services. There could be a marble ball that has too much lead in it. Or maybe t-shirts that had the wrong logo imprinted on the shirt...
Wed, 11/30/2011 - 09:31
The answer is yes!
However, in order for a junk removal service to recycle your unwanted objects, they have to look at your material in a different way. Let’s define “junk” as any type of furniture from a desk, file cabinet, bed, or a cubicle wall. The junk pick-up service cannot just look at your couch and say, “that is a couch”. They have to think about what is inside that couch. A couch is usually comprised of...
Sun, 11/20/2011 - 08:34
Today E-Cycle Environmental, a premier junk removal service and recycling company, announced a new business venture that helps the environment and affords families with additional income!
“With all of the doom and gloom in the economy, we wanted to create an...
Tue, 11/15/2011 - 14:08
Pretend you were asked to perform a product destruction service for a food manufacturer, specifically the destruction of their automated food manufacturing assembly line.
Big deal, right? Let’s just break the stuff...
Wed, 11/09/2011 - 10:56
Document destruction without leaving a “shred of evidence" is sometimes required by state or federal law. While you may want to comply with these laws and protect yourself, stockholders, employees, and customers/patients by destroying all confidential and outdated material, paper shredding can be time consuming as a method of document destruction, and unlike...
Mon, 10/24/2011 - 12:57
Although batteries are not thought to be as harmful as they once were (the amount of mercury in batteries has greatly decreased throughout the years) it’s still important to environmentally-minded consumers to recycle batteries instead of simply tossing them in the trash. Some states, such as California, have even banned all batteries from landfills.
Batteries still contain chemicals that can be harmful if not disposed of properly. Lead acid and nickel-cadmium batteries are of...
Wed, 10/19/2011 - 06:46
What kind of metal do I have?
This is a question you might ask yourself if you have a bunch of metal you want to scrap. For example, your work place has a bunch of scrap metal that looks a little like steel. How do you figure out what it is? How much is it worth?
To the layman, these are tough questions to answer. To be honest, it can even be hard to those in the metal...
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