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Coffee manager brainstorms with others to start city-wide composting program

Winston-Salem Journal
August 05, 2008 - ...can be composted. Large-scale commercial operations generate enough heat to compost meat, seafood and bone, materials not recommended for backyard composting, but restaurants would still have to filter out plastic, glass and metal scraps. Each participating restaurant would also need a secure container to store compostable scraps until pick up. Finding people willing to haul the waste is the biggest obstacle to starting a composting program, said Brian Rosa, an organic recycling......
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Recycling industry hit hard as Chinese firms pay top dollar for used plastic

The Yomiuri Shimbun
August 05, 2008 - However, due to recent oil-price-led rises in the cost of raw materials, demand for plastics made of recycled materials instead of those made of crude oil has increased. ...
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Green homes a growing trend

CNN
August 05, 2008 - Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry displays a rooftop garden, drainage system and solar-paneled roof. This year, green building is expected to represent 6 percent of the residential construction industry, according to a survey conducted by McGraw-Hill Construction Research & Analytics for the U.S. Green Building Council. Watch how a former bank turned "green" » "It is happening. ...
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Push is on to green up the gardening industry

Chicago Tribune
August 04, 2008 - Though a substantial proportion of the plastic resin that goes into the larger, sturdier pots is recycled from other sources, not much of that gets reused or recycled again. At cowpots.com.Some gardeners aren't waiting for the horticultural industry to move. Louis that recycled more than 100,000 pounds of garden plastic into landscape timber in 2007. ...
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Going green a growing trend among homeowners in the U.S.

The Canadian Press
August 04, 2008 - It can be a regular Craftsman house or a Cape Cod house in New England or an adobe house in Santa Fe. ...
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It's a small, small world Socks that don't stink. Clothes that repel stains. Golf clubs that hit balls longer and straighter. As we exploit the riches of nanotechnology, do we know the consequences?

Star Tribune
August 04, 2008 - And some materials go where they're not supposed to. One study shows manufactured nanoparticles in nature could be trouble. ...
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Outlook optimistic for manufacturing sector in Erie, Pa., area

Erie Times-News
August 04, 2008 - In the past five years, the county has lost just 200 manufacturing jobs overall, according to an analysis by the Economic Research Institute of Erie. Five years later, 8,000 Crawford County residents work in manufacturing. Brian Dean, president of Nu-Tec Tooling Systems Inc. in Meadville, saw it happen. Employment at his company fell to a low of 28 a few years ago. ...
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Museum exhibit shows why 'green' building grows

Pittsburgh Tribune Review
August 03, 2008 - But the industry needs to do a better job of getting information into people's hands when they're looking for it," Kredich said. It can be a regular Craftsman house or a Cape Cod house in New England or an adobe house in Santa Fe. Kaufmann said homeowners are ready. "It's no longer a question if people want to go green or not. ...
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The InfraStake Process - Seeing the Light

Plastics Decorating
August 01, 2008 - The punch cavity is designed to match the volume of plastic in the unstaked boss. The InfraStake technology offers a flexible approach to joining plastic parts. The company also offers a complete line of InfraStake components and controllers specifically engineered for integration. ...
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Industry News & Analysis

Modern Plastics
August 01, 2008 - Neighbors join forces Injection mold manufacturer Joint Venture Tool & Mold (Meadville, PA) has acquired competitor and neighbor Ideal Tool Co. Injection molding Hoffer Plastics, The Intec Group form alliance Two leading U.S. injection molders, Hoffer Plastics and The Intec Group, have formed a strategic alliance. That makes Sumitomo-Demag, with its competitor Fanuc, the only manufacturers of injection molding machines with in-house electric drive technology. ...
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