{"id":372883,"date":"2010-02-28T07:58:38","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T12:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"tag:greentechnolog.com,2010:\/\/1.2214"},"modified":"2010-02-28T08:26:39","modified_gmt":"2010-02-28T13:26:39","slug":"aviation-and-health-care-lag-in-recycling-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/372883","title":{"rendered":"Aviation and Health Care Lag in Recycling Space"},"content":{"rendered":"

The reasons to recycle are many and should be helpful to any business … lower  cost with less trash to dispose and pay for and "bragging rights" to promote are just two … Yet two very large "inductries" have not jumped on the recycling bandwagon … <\/p>\n

\"medical" … a The New York Times<\/strong><\/em> article, Leaving the Trash Behind<\/strong><\/em>, explored the aviation industry’s massive contribution to global waste … millions of plastic bottles discarded at security checkpoints, but separate recycling containers in terminals or on board planes are not common. …no industry standard for recycling …"<\/p>\n

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"Recycling procedures vary by airline and airport. Environmental programs involve many entities … each of the nation’s 552 commercial "airports has its own way of handling waste."\"aviation\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

" … <\/strong>Continental Airlines<\/strong> has been recycling oil, antifreeze and other aircraft maintenance products for two or three years. Recently it began onboard collection of bottles, aluminum cans and cardboard boxes. …"<\/p>\n

" … Green America<\/strong>, an environmental group, started a campaign to get air travelers to report back on their website what airlines were recycling … to hold the industry accountable in enforcing their polities and to push them to do better."<\/p>\n

" … medical centers are the second-largest waste producers in the United States, after the food industry. … In operating rooms, some items that are never even used are thrown away simply because they are taken out of their packaging and could have been contaminated."<\/p>\n

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Via:<\/strong> SmartPlanet LINK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The reasons to recycle are many and should be helpful to any business … lower  cost with less trash to dispose and pay for and "bragging rights" to promote are just two … Yet two very large "inductries" have not jumped on the recycling bandwagon … " … a The New York Times article, Leaving […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":754,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/754"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}