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Every year, millions of new consumers buy TV, computers and other home appliances and electronics business.

In 2009, more than 2 million tons of electronics is ready for the end-of-life disposal, but only 25 percent of those collected for tons of recycled, according to HR green, program planning District Commission of Hampton Roads that promote environmental responsibility among the population in the 16 cities and counties in Southwest Virginia.

If your household or your business have an old electronics sit around, America Recycles Day on November 15, gives you the chance to get rid of Your surplus in a way that is environmentally friendly.

"Electronic Waste containing metals and chemicals that should not be going into our landfills or waste facilities energy because they harm the environment," said Debbie Blanton, Coordinator of Hampton's Clean City Commission.

"A lot of our rare metals in electronics and highly recyclable, so that's another good reason to take them to a collection of decline. They should have thrown in the trash. "

EDMONTON-when people in the company's newsprint Alberta first seen tomatoes grown in sludge waste pulp them, they have a chuckle.

"We think because a small number of sanitary waste LANDFILL sites we treated in, and because the tomato seeds pass through the human digestive system, it ate tomatoes staff source," joked And Moore, Coordinator of the Whitecourt papermaking plant environment.

"But the bigger question is, ' Why is sludge plant pulp was so friendly? ' ”

So they called on researchers. And what followed was a project for a decade that has changed the way three pulp mills of Alberta allowed to deal with them in mud.

The work towards the end of expensive burning and landfilling of mud, and local farmers were given an excellent fertilizer. In the future, it might offer the oil and gas company in a better way to reclaim its former site is good.