Top Tips for Reducing Waste this Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is a time of joy and celebration all across the US. Families come together, often from disparate parts of the country, to share a meal and give thanks for everything they are blessed with. But this happy and joyful experience can often become an excuse to overindulge, producing a huge amount of excess food…Read More…
How to Dispose of Small and Large Appliances
It’s always stressful for homeowners when old appliances come to the end of their use: they’re expensive to replace, often vital to your day-to-day life, and whether it’s a small toaster or a large space heater, they can often feel like a literal weight around your neck! Household appliances are difficult to dispose of for…Read More…
What are the Costs of Getting LEED Certification?
LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, and is among the most recognized green building certifications in the world. It is a ratings system introduced in the US in 1994 by the US Green Building Council (or USGBC) to help building owners and developers incorporate sustainable designs into their building projects. The LEED…Read More…
The Complete Checklist for LEED Certification
LEED, which stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, is the world’s foremost green building rating system, used for both new building projects and renovations. Introduced to the US in 1994 by the US Green Building Council, or USGBC, LEED offers certification to building projects using a points-based system to grade efforts that reduce…Read More…
How To Reduce the Emissions of Your Business
Emissions from businesses are often associated with smokestacks and heavy industrial production facilities. Yet in reality, all businesses generate emissions, and rather than being limited to manufacturing processes, they are produced at every stage of the business cycle. In fact, from the production of new products through the transportation of goods to the use of…Read More…
What Are Nonrenewable Resources?
According to the US Energy Information Administration, nonrenewable resources are those that do not ‘form or replenish in a short period of time’. What that means is that natural resources such as fossil fuels (including natural gas, bituminous coal, and crude oil) may be generated by natural materials, but this does not happen within a…Read More…
What Can Be Recycled?
With the effects of the ongoing climate crisis being felt around the world, it has never been more important to try and do all we can at an individual and corporate level to minimize our impact. Which means that we have to get serious about recycling and sustainability. Recycling our waste products helps to conserve…Read More…
Is Carbon Capture And Storage From Waste Energy Plants Viable?
Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) has been a crucial strand of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) recommendations on how to limit global warming to a manageable level. Although CCS technology has borne its detractors along the way, largely because of sequestration’s inadvertent use in the extraction of more fossil fuels, the weight of…Read More…
Community Composting – Local Solution to Global Issues
In May this year, RTS joined forces with the Sanitation Foundation to bring together volunteers from around Staten Island to get their hands dirty with a little Black Gold! We firmly believe the program was a success, not only diverting organic waste from landfill but also providing education and awareness to those involved. With that…Read More…
What Is The Materials Transition?
As governments around the world aim to reach net zero emissions in the coming decades, the need for an ever more concerted approach to cutting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions has been made abundantly clear by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Changes’s (IPCC) latest report. Until now, efforts had focused primarily on reducing emissions in how…Read More…