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1.Recycling Metal and Lives by Leggett, Page Business North Carolina Vol. 39 Issue 12, December 2019
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The owner of a scrap metal company takes the concept of renewal to a new level: people with life setbacks such as criminal backgrounds. By working for Queen City Metal, ex-offenders can rebuild their value as employees, along with their lives.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 39 Issue 12, December 2019 ,
p64-65
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Recycling realities include penalties imposed if too much trash is mixed in and steps involved with separating what’s recyclable and not. Educating the public about the difference, and sparing facilities like ECVC penalties, includes a list in this article of what’s recyclable and not.
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Recycling; Recycling (Waste, etc.)--Laws and legislation; Recycling (Waste, etc.); Recycling facilities--Greenville; Recycling facilities--Pitt County; Eastern Carolina Vocational Center (Greenville); Recycling industries--employment--individuals with disabilities; Recyclables--see also recyclable items
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Crystal Dreisbach is the founder of Don’t Waste Durham, a community organization which hopes to reduce consumer waste. Dreisbach just launched a reusable takeout container program called GreenBox. With a special app, consumers can sign up to check out and return the containers at participating Durham restaurants.
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Recycling plastic bottles creates jobs for North Carolinians. Several recycling centers across the state turn old bottles into fabric fibers. The fibers can be used for a variety of products including t-shirts and car seat covers. The bottles are in such high demand that the Carolinas Plastics Recycling Council has started a campaign to increase the recycling of plastic bottles to support local manufacturers and businesses.
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ReCYCLEd in Chapel Hill was more than a bicycle shop. Among its purposes were gifting salvaged bikes to local children, providing opportunities to give back to the community, and offering a career opportunity. In other words, it was special kind of community center.
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Since 1991 Orange County has proactively worked to reduce personal waste by 59 percent. Refinancing proposals could potentially weaken this successful program by privatizing the waste management program. Orange County's recycling efforts and reduction in waste production is the best among all other counties - Wake being the closest having reduced waste production by 25 percent in the same time period.
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Ney begins a new series on waste that will examine some of the common items that are environmentally harmful, but are still tossed into landfills, and what can be done about them. North Carolinians throw away nine times more than they recycle. Ney discusses reasons why paper should be recycled.
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In this second in a series examining the state's trash, Ney discusses the problem with plastic bags. First introduced in grocery stores in the 1970s, now 90 percent of the shopping bags used worldwide are plastic and less than five percent are returned for recycling. Those thrown away endanger wildlife, emit toxic fumes if burned, contaminate soil, and pollute waterways. Ney discusses possible solutions.
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On October 1, 2009, North Carolina will become the first state in the Southeast to ban plastic bottles from landfills. Legislation was introduced to reduce energy consumption and lower greenhouse gas emissions, as well as to save landfill space and reduce litter. The new law will also have positive effects on the state’s economy.
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North Carolina has made progress in recycling waste; however, waste reduction varies among the state's one hundred counties, ranging from a high of 491.1 pounds per person in Montgomery County to a low of 4.17 in Robeson County. Coe and Hickman discuss reasons for this and practices municipalities and counties can use for waste reduction.
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The construction industry flourishes in the Research Triangle Metropolitan Area. However, construction and demolition landfills fill up rapidly, In fiscal year 1997-1998, Wake, Durham, and Orange Counties buried 330,000 tons of this waste. Preventing the loss of more open spaces to landfills each year requires more recycling of this waste. Proponents say builders will recycle when there is training for the building industry, local sites for dropping off recyclables, and high landfill fees for this type of waste.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 17 Issue 2, Jan 2000,
p17, 19, il
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To encourage recycling and reduce waste going to landfills, some communities, including Wilmington, have adopted unit pricing, or paying for garbage based on what is disposed of. A benefit of this approach is that it is more equitable than a flat rate.
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Begun in 1990, the state's Solid Waste Management Trust Fund has awarded 118 grants totaling over $2 million to assist towns in waste reduction plans. Farmville in Pitt County used a grant to begin recycling office paper.
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Recycling by the state's municipalities has become profitable, bringing higher prices than two years ago. Because of previous contract commitments or insufficient personnel for handling recycling, however, not all cities are benefitting from the trend.
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A recycling project funded by the National Marine Fisheries Service shows promise of mitigating the problem of disposal of fishing industry refuse. In February, 1995, 22 tons of crab pots and nets were recycled by the state's commercial fishermen.
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