In this weeks Austin American Statesman, it was revealed that Greenstar, the city of Austin’s recycling program partner hauls the recycling materials over 200 miles to its Garland, TX recycling facility. http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/11/09/1109recycling.html When the city of Austin was ready to move to single stream recycling Greenstar was supposed to be able to do this locally. [...]
Archive for November 2008
When Recycling Goes Bad – Greenstar’s Austin Recycling Program
November 29, 2008Ideko-IK4 Wins Manufacturer of the Year 2008 at Strategic Manufacturing Awards
November 9, 2008Ideko-IK4 has carried off the top prize at the coveted European Manufacturing Strategies Summit by capturing the Green Manufacturing category and the overall prize for Manufacturer of the Year 2008. Ideko was awarded this prize for its development of a clean cutting technology in the machining of magnesium. The lubricant free process eliminates the by product [...]
Subaru Goes Green
November 5, 2008There are many ways i the automotive industry to be GREEN. It’s not just about making electric cars, alternative fuel vehicles or hybrids. Green is also about how you do more with less and create less wasted materials. Subaru has done exactly that at its Indiana plant according to its Subaru Drive magazine backissues. It reuses [...]
Sigma Automotive – Green Auto Innovations
November 1, 2008I have been quite disturbed lately by the loss of interest in reduction of our dependence on foreign oil through the purchase of gas saving vehicles like hybrids. It seems that now, we are happy to pay $2.00-$3.00 per gallon, a price we cried about a year ago. Let’s think about the impacts of this. [...]
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