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1) The 3M Transparency Recycling Program was
launched in early 1996. To date well over 500 companies have participated by
recycling their used transparencies. Over 200,000 pounds of
transparencies have been collected, recycled, and
reused in a variety of products. 2)
GreenDisk accepts all electronic media for
recycling, including: diskettes, CDs, and videotapes. There is a
charge of 10 cents per pound of material. All revenue goes to charity and
is tax deductible. All intellectual property is destroyed and all physical
materials are recycled. Please send materials to: GreenDisk, 2200
Burlington, Columbia, Missouri 65202. If you want, you may download a
certification tag of destruction from the internet to guarantee destruction of
your intellectual and physical property. For downloads or more
information, call 1-800-305-DISK or go to http://www.greendisk.com 3)
Plastic Recycling, Inc. will accept all CD's for
recycling. No quantity is too small or too large for us. Please send your used CDs to: Plastic Recycling Inc., 2015 S. Pennsylvania Ave.,
Indianapolis, Indiana 46225. For more information, call (317) 780-6100 or email
us at
AlanShaw@Plastic-recycling.net. 4)
Alstom Power has many solidly- constructed shipping crates which will go
to waste unless you can use them. These range in size from 16'x14'x9' to
3'x3'x9. They could be used for transport, storage or converted into work sheds
or other ingenious uses. Contact: Rene Steger Email:rene.steger@power.alstom.com Company:
Alstom Power
Inc.
Location: Richmond,Virginia
Tel. 804-743-4794 Fax.
804-743-4025 5)
Latex
process waste - A plant which utilizes natural latex generates approximately
eight-twelve 55-gallon drums of waste latex per day, which it cannot re-use due
to it’s manufacture of an FDA-approved sanitary product.
This liquid waste includes 25-30% solids (latex solids).
They currently have to solidify the waste and send all of it to a
landfill. Therefore, they are looking for someone who will take this
waste for free for re-use. Contact
waste01@ecollc.net if you have a use for this waste. 6) Dupont has set a
recycling infrastructure in place to recycle your used Tyvek envelopes? Dupont
will accept small or large quantities. For further information, call
1-800-44-Tyvek, or go to www.tyvekenvelopes.com/rec_how.htm
. 7)
Metal staples removed from paper - We remove all of our staples from paper to be
recycled, and save them. Can we
send them to someone who can recycle them into staples or other useful metal
products? Contact
mystaples@ecollc.net. 8)
Meat processing wastewater with sodium chloride contamination -
Could be used as brine solution for other food preservation, or other
uses. Contact
waste02@ecollc.net if you have as use for
this waste. 9)
Waste
Plastics: Numbers 3-6 - Does anyone
take any of these for recycling if we would mail it to you?
Contact waste04@ecollc.net. 10) Lockheed Martin - Ocala Operations (Florida) has
available 53 x 1 gal surplus containers of 3M SF-2 Vapor Phase Fluid used in
printed circuit board manufacturing processes. Please call Jim Roberts at
(352) 687-5182
11) Revest, Inc. in Lithia Springs, Georgia has diversified fabric scraps remaining from panel
manufacturing process....will sell or give away. Contact Jay Winters at
(770) 819-9353, or via e-mail at Jay.Winters@revest.com. 12) The
Waste Reduction Resource Center (WRRC) provides technical Pollution Prevention
(P2) support to the states in EPA Region III and EPA Region IV. You'll find a
search-able index of materials and industry sectors, with names of industries
who will accept these items for recycling.
Go to http://wrrc.p2pays.org. 13) Recycler’s World is a world wide trading site for information related to secondary or recyclable commodities, by-products, used & surplus items or materials. Reach this site by going to http://www.recycle.net/index.html. For a list of computer recyclers and refurbishers, and a wordwide electronics materials exchange, to www.recycle.net/computer . 14) For commercial exchanges/re-use, and recycling of many different plastic resins, go to www.plasticsrecycling.org. 15) The International Association of Electronics Recyclers (IAER) has a web site that includes a comprehensive list of electronics recyclers. Go to www.iaer.org/search . 16) One
section of the National Recycling Coalition’s web site hosts a database of
electronics recyclers, reuse organizations, and municipal programs that accept
old electronic equipment. Go to:
www.nrc-recycle.org/programs/electronics/search/getlisting.asp
. 17) The National Safety Council’s Electronic Product Recovery & Recycling
Directory contains a list of electronics recycling and donation organizations,
at www.nsc.org/ehc/epr2/ . 18) The National Directory of Computer Recycling Programs lists organizations throughout the U.S. and the world that accept and prepare computers for donation. Go to http://microweb.com/pepsite/Recycle/recycle_index.html .19) Share the Technology, a nonprofit corporation, has a national database which lists computer offers and requests from all over the United States and from other countries, at http://sharetechnology.org/ .20) CompuMentor provides a list of electronics recycling and reuse organizations throughout the United States, at www.compumentor.org/cm/resources/articles/108.html . 21) Gateway Country stores will give a $100 discount off a new PC to anyone who donates a functioning, 386-class or better computer of any brand to Goodwill. Some local Goodwill organizations might take a 286, but check with your local Goodwill. Go to www.goodwill.org/ . 22) The National Cristina Foundation brings donated computers to the disabled, economically disadvantaged, and students at risk. Donation instructions are on the web site, at http://cristina.org . 23) The Wireless Foundation collects and distributes cellular phones for neighborhood crime prevention, domestic safety, and education programs. Go to www.wirelessfoundation.org .24) The COMPAQ Computer Asset Recovery Services (CARS) serves as a source for disposition of any brand of computer-related equipment. Go to www.digital.com/das039hm.html, or call 1-800-580-7370 to learn more. 25) The Dell Financial Services (DFS) Asset Recovery Services offers two disposition services – Value Recovery Services for functional equipment and PC Recycling Services for nonfunctional or outdated equipment. Go to www.dell.com/us/en/hied/services/asset_000/htm, or call 1-800-955-3355, ext. 36634. 26) IBM’s Product End-of-Life Management Service will accept unused and unwanted IBM and non-IBM equipment for refurbishment and recycling. Go to www.pc.ibm.com/ww/healthycomputing/envreport/end.html . 27) The U.S. EPA’s WasteWise site has a searchable directory which includes a list of reuse organizations and materials exchanges. For this information, go to www.epa.gov/wastewise . 28) Royster-Clark, Inc. of Collinsville, Illinois has nine 55 gallon drums of roofing tar, never used. Contact Dana Yanchunas at (618) 346-7300, or by e-mail at ddyanchunas@roysterclark.com 29) FMC BioPolymer in Rockland, Maine manufactures food additives. Seaweed residue containing inorganics and lime is generated as a waste by-product. If you have a re-use for this, contact Dennis Healy by telephone at (207) 594-3200 or by e-mail at dennis_healy@fmc.com .30) Herlacher Angleton Associates, LLC in Waterloo, Illinois has used alkaline batteries. Note: "We keep depleting these batteries mostly 9 volt or AA batteries but none of the recyclers around here wants them. So, who has a market for these?" Contact Tom Herlacher at (618) 935-2262 or at iqss@wholenet.net 31) JT Posey Company in Arcadia, California has cloth scraps to sell or give away. These scraps are leftovers from cutting patterns for sewing. They include: polyester/cotton blend, polyester, tyvec label scraps, cotton strap scraps, polyester fur scraps, nylon bias scraps, all sewing scraps. Contact Jane Lidikay at (626) 443-3148, ext. 188, or e-mail at jlidikay@posey.com. 32) ATC of Beaverton, Oregon is involved in Marine Transportation. Waste Products include: waste paper; mylar/overheads; and waste oils. Contact John DeRose at (503) 207-0072 or by e-mail at John.DeRose@aktanker.com .33) The Denver Federal Center (General Services Administration) in Lakewood Colorado generates 100’s of shipping pallets per month. They will give them for free to anyone who is willing to haul them away. Contact Marion Rule, the Regional Recycling Coordinator, at (303) 236-7131, ext. 252 or via e-mail at Marion.Rule@gsa.gov .34) The Association of Lighting and Mercury Recyclers is a national non-profit with a website for information on mercury, government policies, lighting waste and recycling. They are located in Calistoga, California. For further information, go to www.almr.org or call Paul Abernathy at (707) 924-2197. 35) Loctite sealants, adhesives, Dow Corning silicone, and paints are available to sell or give away. If interested, send an e-mail to wastenotonline@ecollc.net . 36) U.S. Postal Service, Greensboro, NC District – has a 55-gallon drum (full) of Terrazo Seal (#112) manufactured by Hill Mfg. Co. Hill Mfg. Co. says that it can be used on: concrete (dry areas only) – since our docks are not enclosed we cannot use it (water causes damage to product); on wooden floors; and on tile (not bathroom/will turn white around water). This is not to be used on linoleum. This material is highly flammable and requires use in well vented area. Contact: Terry Waddell at (336) 668-1364, or by e-mail at twaddell@email.usps.gov . 37) I will clean any salt-water damaged area and guarantee natural grass growth within two to six weeks. This is not an encapsulation product. I have other materials that are oil and gas production related for sale or lease. If you need a highly skilled and mobile oil field/environmental consultant, I have my own plane and am within hours of any location on the Gulf Coast or Oklahoma, Colorado and New Mexico. Call Warren Graef of W. Graef Industries, LLC at (832) 368-9608 or at wgraef@swbell.net. 38) American Railcar Industries in St. Charles, Missouri generates spent steel grit/grit dust as a residual product from the abrasive blasting of newly manufactured railcars. It is stored in metal drums or super sacks. Contact Carl Smith, the Corporate Environmental Manager at (636) 940-6056 or at cvsmith@americanrailcar.com . 39) Hershey Foods in Hershey, PA has available two cubic feet bags of cocoa shell mulch for sale in truckload quantities, 50 bags per pallet. The cost is $2.25 per bag FOB Hershey. Contact Bill Briel, the Facilities Manager by telephone at (717) 534-5417 or by e-mail at BILLBRIEL@HERSHEYS.COM . 40) TWC, Inc. is interested to buy any kind of manufacturing or industrial
materials (scrap, waste, raw, and reclaim items), especially plastic and metal
materials. Please contact the manager, William Tung by telephone at (704)
536-8321 or by e-mail at twinc@yahoo.com
.
41) We are looking for a recycling company that will take our scrap
plastic parts for free. The plastic
parts we throw away are cellular phone covers (mostly Nokia) that have been coated on the interior with a very thin (less than 50 Microns) metallic (copper
and stainless steel) layer. If Interested please call me (Jorge Orozco) At 817-491-8580.
42)
Smith & Nephew in Memphis, Tennesee is looking for someone to take the UHMWPE
turnings and shavings from lathe and mill machining operations. This material is
white. We could probably fill a gaylord box a week. Contact Eddie Glover,
Recycling, Environmental & Safety Coordinator, at (901) 399-5116 x5116, or via
email at eddie.glover@smith-nephew.com
43) Nickel chloride rinses
are evaporated to a concentrate now at 20 oz per gal of nickel metal and we
would like to give it away to someone who could use it. Contact David Kunces at
Advanced Products Corp. in North Haven, Ct. by telephone at 203-985-3144, or at
dkundes@advpro.com by email. 44)
I am interested in any of the following: Loctite sealants, adhesives, Dow
Corning silicone, and paints that are available to sell or give away. If
interested, contact Pepe Sanchez at (787) 748-0433. 45) We are always
interested in purchasing used cellphones. Please contact Ace Wireless Inc. at
(973) 491-2777.
46) HANSA International, a
leading plastic scrap importer/recycler in China is buying large quantity of
plastic scrap, esp. PET scrap. Major interests are the following. PET lump,
rock; PET bottle regrind (flake); PET preform; PET fiber; de-silvered or never
silvered X-RAY film; PET repro / granulate, and PET offgrade. All PET scrap
should be free of PVC, with I.V. over 0.55. Material should be dry, free of
dust/soil. Only clear, blue, and green colors are acceptable. " We have flexible
payment term which can meet your requirement. Our forwarder network can pick up
goods from every corner of the world. Therefore ex work price are acceptable. We
can work on FOB your work or CNF Shanghai too. If you can offer other plastic
scrap, we would like to receive your proposal as well. We will send people to
visit your company, once we have a rough deal. I believe we will have a pleasant
cooperation if you 47) Stoddard solvent with oil from cleaning
parts. It is milspec (MIL PRF 7024 |