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The difficulties encountered in recycling manufactured materials

As you know, we use various kinds of materials for the manufacturing millions of products. These materials include pure metals, alloys, plastic, rubber, etc, which themselves have different properties due to the composition of the chemicals added to achieve certain material properties like color, strength, etc. The highest degree of difficulty is encountered in sorting the materials while recycling. Like stated [ Read More → ]

What are some advantages and disadvantages of recycling plastics?

Advantages: Recycling is good! It’s good for the environment, it’s good for practicing green-living, and plastic is bad for the environment because it takes hundreds of years to biodegrade. (which means it cannot just disappear into its surroundings) We can use it for other stuff, we have less waste on the planet, which makes more room for living, less money is spent [ Read More → ]

New York City to Recycle Clothing, Shoes, Textiles Starting This Fall

Wearable Collections, clothing recycling, textiles recycling, shoes recycling, eco-fashion, sustainable fashion, green fashion, sustainable style Clothes unsalvageable even for the Salvation Army? This September, New York City will unveil one of the largest textile-recycling initiatives in the country. Its purpose: To make recycling unwanted threads as pain-free as pitching them in the garbage—no small feat, considering that a Goodwill Industries survey of 600 North American adults found that more than half wouldn’t travel more than 10 [ Read More → ]