New Student Housing Complex Garners First LEED® Platinum Certification for a California State University Project

California State University, Fullerton Student Housing Phase III project, built by PCL Construction Services, Inc., is the first CSU System project to achieve prestigious designation from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC)GLENDALE and FULLERTON, CA (PRWEB) March 23, 2012 PCL Construction Services, Inc., in association with Steinberg Architects, is pleased to announce the recent LEED® …

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Solo JV making winter progress in Canada

LONDON (SHARECAST) – Reef Resources , the operator of the Ausable field in Canada in which AIM-listed Solo Oil has a stake, said significant progress has been made on the project, but warned that bad weather could slow things in the first two months of 2012.

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Students make recycling grade

This past October, the recycling gloves were off in some Brandon schools as they tangled in the first ever Schools Waste Reduction Challenge.

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Students make recycling grade

Recycling Fiber (Paper)…The Basics…

When we think of recycling, paper is one of the first materials that come to mind. In New York City subways, the most common piece of “trash” is a newspaper. There has been a push in recent years to combat this by putting recycling bins (instead of trashcans), in the subway systems

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Recycling Fiber (Paper)…The Basics…

VIDEO: Knowaste opens first of six recycling plants in UK

A pioneering new waste recycling facility that processes nappies and other absorbent hygiene products (AHP) has opened in the West Midlands – making it the first of its kind in the UK, with a proposed five more in the pipeline.

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Sims First Electronics Recycling Company in the UK with R2

Sims Recycling Solutions http://www.simsrecycling.com has become the first multi-site electronics recycling company in the UK to receive recommendation for certification to the Responsible Recycling (R2) Practices standard. R2 is a voluntary standard which uses downstream auditing to ensure that electronics recyclers are operating to the highest international environmental, health, safety and …

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Sims First Electronics Recycling Company in the UK with R2

Styrofoam recycling program begins in Moncton

A recycling program in southeastern New Brunswick is making history as the first municipal facility in Canada to recycle Styrofoam.

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Styrofoam recycling program begins in Moncton

Metro to take the lead in Styrofoam recycling

Metro Moncton’s waste management corporation will be the first municipality in Canada to recycle polystyrene products.

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Metro to take the lead in Styrofoam recycling

Bright future ahead

A multi-million dollar company has sprouted out of a Queen’s University chemistry lab. Switchable Solutions, the first of six start-up ventures from GreenCentre Canada, will use technology developed in Kingston in a Mississauga pilot plant that was announced Monday.

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Bright future ahead