No batteries or adapters necessary for this green sound amplifier compatible with iPhones, most recently the iPhone4. This may not seem like break-through technology, but I’m thinking this is a small taste of what’s to come.
To read more visit griffintechnology.com
The NY Times has recently featured the 2010 Holiday Gift Guide!
http://www.nytimes.com/gift-guide/holiday-2010/categories.html?ref=technology
While the majority of the most popular gifts are electronics, Intercon would like to remind you to recycle your old and unused electronics with us this season!
If you’ve ever been to Europe you’ve more than likely noticed the cigarette packaging screaming ‘Smoking Kills’ and ‘Smokers Die Younger’. If you thought these were ruthless, wait till you see what the U.S. has planned.
The Food and Drug Administration issued a proposed rule to modify the required cigarette warning labels on packages. Some of the phrases to be used are ‘Cigarettes cause cancer’ and ‘Tobacco smoke can harm your children’. What’s more are these warnings will be accompanied by graphic color pictures of the harmful effects of smoking.
Will this lead to more smokers quitting? Only time will tell, but it’s time to face the truth.
…at least for Champaign, IL residents.
City officials expect to diver 2,600 tons of trash from landfills annually with their new requirements for at-home recycling pickups.
Shouldn’t this be a requirement in every city? If it’s not in yours, campaign for it!
Eggshells fighting climate change? Yup!
According to a recent study, the membrane that lines an eggshell has the ability to absorb almost seven times its own weight of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from the atmosphere!
Read more at ScienceDaily.com
Happy Halloween Everyone!!!
Halloween is approaching and while the colors orange and black are on your mind, green should be as well.
All those candy wrappers can be recycled! Toss them in with your usual recycling and feel a little better about all that sugar! =)
 Over 30 years ago, the first walkman was produced. Today, production ends. Sony shipped it’s last batch of walkmen this April and has since then ceased it’s Japanese production.
Most of us have made the switch to iPods already, but for those who haven’t-make sure those old tape players are recycled! Tossing a walkman in the trash is tossing plastic, glass and chemicals into our landfills!
Conclusion- with the new, goes the old. Embrace the new, and recycle the old.
Just one Styrofoam cup can take five hundred years to decompose in landfills. And since polystyrene (more widely known as Styrofoam) is the material most commonly used in packing product in the U.S., its presence in landfills is pervasive.
That’s all about to change thanks to Illinois-based national E-Waste recycler Intercon Solutions. Intercon Solutions has designed a state of the art Expanded Polystyrene densification machine using high volume extruder technology.
This one of a kind machine densities polystyrene into tough slabs by processing it through a crusher, heat bands and an extruder. This process is safe and clean, with no harmful emissions. The EPA and the International Agency for Research on Cancer have established styrene (the foundational ingredient used to make polystyrene) as a possible human carcinogen with acute health effect.
According to Intercon Solutions CEO Brian Brundage, “We had to establish a method for recycling what the nation is using right now, and Styrofoam isn’t something consumers are going to stop using anytime soon. We recognized the need, and went to work, creating the first solution of its kind in our industry.
“With Aerosolv Nation we ask students, teachers, community leaders, university sustainability staffers, artists and other creative, committed individuals to join with us to promote proper aerosol can disposal,” said Michael Campbell, inventor of the Aerosolv technology and president of Katec Inc. “Many businesses and communities still throw their aerosols in the trash, which in many cases is illegal, dangerous and wastes valuable landfill space. They are fully recyclable and by doing so removes an entire waste stream.”
The week of October 11, 2010 is when Aerosolv Nation innitative was announced. The mission? To make recycling aerosol cans as commonplace as recycling newspapers and plastics. Awesome!
Read more: http://www.wasterecyclingnews.com/headlines2.html?id=1287501908&allowcomm=true
About Intercon Solutions: Founded in 1987, Intercon Solutions has developed an efficient and responsible way to turn end-of-life electronic machines, scrap and equipment into the raw materials, eliminating the need to import and/or mine for materials. Their ISO 9001, 14001 and OHSAS 18001 certified Management Systems are utilized during the de-manufacturing processes that take place in an over 250,000 square foot facility in Chicago Heights, IL. The Intercon clientele is comprised of Fortune 500 companies, large corporations and government agencies. RIOS, R2 and NAID Certified environmentally-conscious recycler, Intercon Solutions, also operates facilities in Huntsville, AL; Sacramento, CA; Tampa, FL; St. Louis, MO; Concord, NC; Dallas, TX; Vancouver, BC; and Ottawa and Toronto, ON in Canada; and an international facility in London, England. Please visit us at www.interconrecycling.com.
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