Once in a sunny day of spring 1987, a smelly sea boat cast off from one of Long Island, New York piers and sailed into history. The name of the vessel was Mobro. It was a large barge heavily loaded with 3,168 tons of garbage. The famous-now Garbage Cruise ran along the Atlantic Coast and into the Gulf of Mexico.

The garbage, litter, trash, rubbish from Islip, Long Island, NY, and other New York boroughs and townships traveled six thousand miles along the way. I about 5 months of traveling the famous boat pulled into the dock still loaded with the same amount of garbage it had started with. The story triggered a lot of headlines and debates. The funny if not serious and sad Garbage Cruise story made history.

How the famous Garbage Cruise was originated? It all started a few moths before the boat cast off the pier when New Your State officials declared that their landfills-garbage dumps-were full. The decisions was made not to enlarge landfills since stinky air, methane, insects and rodents generated by the garbage dumps were posing a serious threat to citizens health.

The local Islip Township officials announced that they would accept residential trash only. Commercial businesses would have dispose of their waste somewhere else hauling commercial garbage by roll off containers or...

This post was prepared and published with the help of environmentally concerned members of Roll Off Dumpster Rentals Cooperative : Dumpster Rentals in Seattle , Dumpster Rentals in Sacramento , Dumpster Rentals in Phoenix and Roll Off Containers Phoenix .

How big are your feet?

Imagine walking barefoot along a beach, always keeping your steps on the wet sand where the waves wash up onshore. With each step, you leave a clear print; but when you look back, the water washes your footprints away. The fresh unmarked sandy beach reappears. Your human footprint seems insignificant compared to the power of Nature. But is...

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Right Away Disposal of Phoenix, AZ is a local roll off dumpster rentals and waste removal company offering 3 - 8 cubic yard front load dumsters and 12 - 40 cubic yard open top roll off...

Ever thought what happens with your junk when a truck driver hauls away a full of trash roll off dumpster? Or have you ever thought where black garbage bags go after you drop them in a curbside container and a squeaky garbage truck picks them up on a garbage day? If not than listen to a story delivered by the folks from Seattle Roll Off Dumpster Rentals and Phoenix Trash Removal teams.

After picking up your roll off container truck driver steers into an enormous industrial site. A crowd of crows, swirl of dust, and a whiff of fresh garbage are clues that this is one of North America's largest landfills. The driver rolls up to the weigh scales to see how much are the dumping fees.

This landfill site is as good as it gets. A natural lining of clay goes down 262 feet from the surface, sealing garbage in. Tall portable screens trap airborne litter, while a perimeter of mounded-up soil and the surrounding cornfields help keep garbage out of the neighbors' view. The business of operating a landfill requires making space ready to receive hundred of loads of trash. Enormous earth-moving...

Metals are valuable materials because they can be used in many ways. A variety of metals can be found in the home: steel and aluminum in cans and aerosols, lead on the roof, copper on the pipes, and gold and silver in jewelry.

Where metal comes from

Most metals cannot be dug straight from the ground. A metal usually occurs as an ore; for example, iron is found in iron ore and aluminum occurs as an ore called bauxite. The ores are found in rocks that have to be quarried or mined from the ground. Then the ores have to be crushed and transported to factories, where they are heated to high temperatures to extract the metal.

Easy to recycle

Recycling metal is much easier compared with extracting the metal from rocks. Metals are very easy to recycle, and they can be recycled over and over again. Waste metal is tipped into a large furnace and heated to a high temperature so that it melts. The molten metal is poured into a mold to make an ingot. The ingots are stored until the metal is needed to make something. Then it is melted again and reshaped into a new object.

Helping the environment

Recycling metal helps the environment. A lot of fuel is used to remove the rocks from the ground and then transport them around the world. More fuel is needed to extract the...

Glass is a very useful material. It can be made into bottles, jars, and other containers to hold liquids and foods. Also, it can be recycled over and over again.

Reusing glass bottles
 It is much better for the environment's sake to reuse a glass bottle than to recycle it. Glass bottles can be collected, washed, and refilled. Bottles that are reused need to be a bit heavier than other bottles so that they do not break or chip easily.

Some glass bottles may be reused more than 30 times and have a life of four years. In the developing world, it is common for glass bottles to be collected and reused.

Recycling glass bottles

Bottles to be recycled are collected at recycling centers. The glass is crushed to form cullet, which is transported to glass factories.
Glass is made from sand, soda ash, and limestone. Additives may be used to give the glass a color or to make it more resistant to heat. These raw materials are heated in a furnace to 3,272°F (1 ,800°C)'so they melt. The molten glass is poured into molds to form new bottles.  Cullet is usually added to the furnace with the raw materials, so fewer raw materials are required to make the glass.

Clear glass is the most...

Why has the problem of toxic waste become so great and so widespread?  How did it get started?  We will cover these and other questions in the next several posts of our Dumpster Rentals Blog.  Keep reading.

This post was prepared and published with the help of environmentally concerned members of Dumpster Rentals Cooperative:  

In this third post of  ‘365 Ways to Save the Earth’ environment protection initiative our intention is, once again, to raise public awareness of environmental problems and non-renewable resources issues.(You can read the previous article here Dumpster Rentals Blog ).   This time we would like to share with the worldwide community a few easy-to-do recommendations on how we can contribute to saving not-renewable resources and reducing the level of pollutions.

Ventilate your home regularly

Indoor air pollution affects all enclosed spaces. This can be caused by a ventilation system that does not remove stale air properly, by a faulty gas stove or heater, or by the improper use of products that require a high degree of air circulation to dissipate pollutants, such as paints, varnishes, and household cleaners. Some pollutants, such as mites and molds, are of natural origin.

On average, we spend 80% of our lives in buildings. The quality of the...

This is the second post of the series of articles devoted the great movement ‘365 Ways to Save the Earth’ that was initiated by folks at Dumpster Rentals Cooperative (read the first article in our Dumpster Rentals Blog ). The goal of the initiative is to raise awareness of environmental problems and issues. We wanted to share with the community of North America consumers some simple proposals and tips on what each of us and all of us can do to keep our planet cleaner, protecting it from pollutants.  By following these simple, easy-to-do recommendation we can contribute to saving not-renewable resources and protecting wildlife.

Below are some tips on how we can keep our planet cleaner:

Support the requirements of the Basel Convention.

The Basel Convention standard, which came into effect in 1992, provides an effective legal framework for controlling and reducing cross-border movements of dangerous waste. It was drawn up by 152 states and, in 2002, led to the issuing of a list of 12 chemical products declared to be persistent organic pollutants (POPs), whose manufacture and use are now prohibited. Among wood treatment, the most toxic, such as arsenic, are...

Last month  I was assigned to run a research and come up with the several posts for our Dumpster Rentals Cooperative blog.  We wanted to discover the best practices in proper disposal and recycling of waste materials.  I started by searching the web and found tons of relevant materials on recycling and proper disposal of waste. It was more then enough interesting publications, statistical reports and stories but for curiosity reason I decided to visit my local library to see what I can find on shelves. At this point I was pretty skeptical, assuming that most of the printed stuff must be outdated and therefore mostly irrelevant.

My skepticism vanished as soon as I picked up from the shelf an increasable book ‘365 Ways to Save Earth’ written by Anne Jankeliowitch and Ariel Dekovic. The book consisted of 365 Philippe Bourseiller’s spectacular photographs of the natural world paired with simple proposal that presented a bit of advice for ordinary urban and suburban every day living: dispose of leftover paint properly, check your car’s exhaust, boil only as much water as you need when making tea or coffee, etc. At first, I was amazed by stunning views on the pictures but as I kept reading through I was amazed even more. I just realized how much all of us can do contributing to protection and saving our...