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	<title>Recycling Industry News and Topics - Recygal Blog &#187; Helpful websites</title>
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		<title>Cigarette Filter Recycling- Repurposing Litter a Little Butt at a Time</title>
		<link>http://www.recygal.com/2011/07/29/cigarette-filter-recycling-repurposing-litter-a-little-butt-at-a-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 19:57:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Recygal</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Recycling cigarette butts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is no doubt about it, where smokers trod, cigarette butts remain. Left behind with a flick of a finger, many smokers treat the disposal of a cigarette butt as if nature can just reabsorb it. Well, this simply isn’t the case. Cigarette filters, the most littered item in the world, are not biodegradable. These [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using Nature to Clean Up Oil Spills</title>
		<link>http://www.recygal.com/2011/02/03/using-nature-to-clean-up-oil-spills/</link>
		<comments>http://www.recygal.com/2011/02/03/using-nature-to-clean-up-oil-spills/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 00:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Recygal</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Phytoextractions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pollution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recycling Products]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Soil Remediation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deep Water Horizon Oil Spill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gulf Coast Restoration Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Phytoremediation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Punxsutawney Phil came out of his ground hog burrow and did not see his shadow, so up North spring will come early this year. Meanwhile, down South in the Gulf of Mexico, the advent of spring is not predicted by a famous ground hog, but announced by the great bird migrations. Each spring over 250 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recycling Halloween – Goblins, Ghosts, and Garbage!</title>
		<link>http://www.recygal.com/2010/10/22/recycling-halloween-%e2%80%93-goblins-ghosts-and-garbage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.recygal.com/2010/10/22/recycling-halloween-%e2%80%93-goblins-ghosts-and-garbage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 18:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Recygal</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greeting Card Recycling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Helpful websites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Land Fills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PS (#6)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recycling Products]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TerraCycle Candy Wrapper Items]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[costumes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[glow sticks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inflatable lawn decor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jack o'lanterns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recycling masks]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.recygal.com/?p=3183</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble”1. While this famous phrase may conjure up thoughts of witches concocting a potion, it surely doesn’t represent all the Halloween fun we have carving pumpkins, trick or treating, and dressing up for costume parties. This year Americans will spend $1.8 billion dollars on candy, $1.6 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DISPOSABLE, PLASTIC BAGS- The Solution May be Here! What Isn’t Recycled May Soon Be Food for Microbes</title>
		<link>http://www.recygal.com/2010/09/29/disposable-plastic-bags-the-solution-may-be-here-what-isn%e2%80%99t-recycled-may-soon-be-food-for-microbes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.recygal.com/2010/09/29/disposable-plastic-bags-the-solution-may-be-here-what-isn%e2%80%99t-recycled-may-soon-be-food-for-microbes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 20:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Recygal</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Plastic Bags]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plastic film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biodegradable plastic shopping bags]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biodegradation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daniel Burd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[microbes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[polyethylene plastic]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For several years now, the disposable plastic shopping bag has been a worldwide, much debated, often legislated, environmental issue.  Extreme opinions exist at both ends of the spectrum.  Proponents of the disposable, plastic shopping bag argue that this inexpensive, handy tote can be reused and recycled.  Oppositionists claim the disposable plastic bag does so much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Plastic Film Chain</title>
		<link>http://www.recygal.com/2010/08/31/the-plastic-film-chain/</link>
		<comments>http://www.recygal.com/2010/08/31/the-plastic-film-chain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:05:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Recygal</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[LDPE (#4)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[packaging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agricultural plastic films]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bio-based films]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food deterioration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MSW statistics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[plastic film recycling]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taking a stroll through your grocery store aisles can be a real plastic film experience. Many vegetables, deli meats, cheeses, and snack foods are wrapped or bagged in this illustrious packaging. Plastic films enable our foods to maintain good shelf life, transport better, and to showcase best. Unfortunately, good, better, best comes with one big [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Rate of Recycling</title>
		<link>http://www.recygal.com/2010/07/20/the-rate-of-recycling/</link>
		<comments>http://www.recygal.com/2010/07/20/the-rate-of-recycling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:49:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Recygal</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Land Fills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MRFs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[municipal solid waste]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[recycling rate by state]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Top Recycling States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Worse Recycling States]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.recygal.com/?p=2767</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As a nation, are we truly reducing the amount of municipal solid waste (MSW) that ends up in landfills? Are we recycling more? How do recycling rates compare across the different regions of our country? Does the future for recycling look positive? Since curbside collection of waste can either be sorted and recycled or carted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recycling Plastic at the Marina</title>
		<link>http://www.recygal.com/2010/05/05/recycling-plastic-at-the-marina/</link>
		<comments>http://www.recygal.com/2010/05/05/recycling-plastic-at-the-marina/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 17:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Recygal</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[HDPE (#2)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Helpful websites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plastic Bottles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plastic Recycling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shrink Wrap]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monofilament fishing line recycling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plastic bottle recycling]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.recygal.com/?p=2140</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Boats everywhere are being pulled out of storage, unwrapped, and set back into the water. Unwrapped? Yes. For those of you who are not boaters, shrink wrap goes way beyond the kitchen- it is used to keep stored boats in good condition. But what happens to all this shrink wrap after it has been used? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tip of the Week</title>
		<link>http://www.recygal.com/2010/03/21/tip-of-the-week-16/</link>
		<comments>http://www.recygal.com/2010/03/21/tip-of-the-week-16/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:59:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Recygal</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Direct Mail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DMA Choice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Helpful websites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Junk Mail]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.recygal.com/?p=2049</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Make your mail box &#8220;greener&#8221; by reducing the amount of junk mail you receive. Register with the Direct Marketing Association&#8217;s, Choice Program,&#8220;DMA Choice&#8221;, to remove your name from mailing lists. Local mail box stuffers also contribute to our heaps of junk mail. Next time you receive a coupon from a local service in your area, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JUNK MAIL- RECYCLING BY REDUCTION</title>
		<link>http://www.recygal.com/2010/03/12/junk-mail-recycling-by-reduction/</link>
		<comments>http://www.recygal.com/2010/03/12/junk-mail-recycling-by-reduction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:03:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Recygal</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Land Fills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Magazine Publishers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Junk mail is on the rise. Over the past decade as worldwide letter mail volumes have seen little growth, junk mail has been growing both domestically and abroad. Thirty percent of all non-parcel mail delivered in the entire world is US junk mail. While statistics vary by source, there are about 100 billion of these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disposable Cups- Recycling One Drink at a Time</title>
		<link>http://www.recygal.com/2010/02/28/disposable-cups-recycling-one-drink-at-a-time/</link>
		<comments>http://www.recygal.com/2010/02/28/disposable-cups-recycling-one-drink-at-a-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:32:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Recygal</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Expanded Polystyrene (EPS)]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[HDPE (#2)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Helpful Products]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[LDPE (#4)]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[PET #1]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Americans dispose of billions upon billions of paper, plastic, and foam cups. This year over 58 billion paper cups and 25 billion polystyrene foam cups will pass through our hands and end up in landfills. While the United States is still the world’s largest culprit of disposable cup waste, growing nations like China and India [...]]]></description>
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