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Trimble’s 3G hardware-recycling partnership
Trimble customers that upgrade to new devices in 2019 and 2020 as 3G networks sunset will be able to ship their uninstalled Trimble equipment to the Cobalt company free of charge, for safe and secure disposal of the hardware, recycling any components when possible.
April 22, 2019
Voices
Old socks: Alternative to greasing hood supports
Dave Marti’s solution to the squeak that can emanate from his six Peterbilts’ hood supports is an alternative to sometime messy greasing: “These aren’t new socks, they’re my old socks,” Marti says, placed just so over the supports to take the squeak out for generally longer than six months per sock.
March 13, 2019
Business
Food Cowboy grows ways to reduce waste
The Food Cowboy group, founded by a produce hauler, continues to grow unique ways to alleviate waste and hunger in the United States, with new developments and liaisons strengthening the mission.
August 24, 2015
Equipment
Waste-haul success story in South Carolina
The 60-truck fleet is comprised mostly of Mack models, which cofounder Scott Fennell says he turns to for reliability on rough-and-tumble urban routes and in and out of landfills.
May 21, 2015
Business
Re-use, re-purpose, ridicule, repeat
George is skeptical of Wendy’s recent recyling effort: repurposing a no-good cat collar as a bracelet: “Sometimes, being kind to the planet is hard.”
May 2, 2014
Channel 19
Crowdfunding handbags made from recycled tires
The “Necessary Recycling” start-up makes various bags from recycled tractor-tire inner tubes — they’re conducting a Kickstarter.com funding campaign to reclaim 30 more tons’ worth of tubes.
November 2, 2013
Channel 19
From toilets to roads — concrete from the potty
It’s “poticrete,” actually, the name given an aggregate mix the city of Bellingham, Wash., used for a paved trail project — a big portion of the aggregate is made of crushed toilets, sinks and other porcelain bathroom fixtures. The mixture is notablein that it marks the first “LEED-style certification,” Christopher Mims wrote on thegrist.org, for […]
June 8, 2012
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