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…
The Ultimate Guide to Food Waste Recycling
30-40% of food in America is simply thrown away, and in a country where one in eight people suffer from hunger, this figure is particularly troubling. And yet the consequences of such wastefulness are not limited to humans, with the environmental impact of food waste on that scale also posing significant problems. When food waste…Read More…
NYC Waste Statistics – What You Need to Know
New York City produces more than 14 million tons of waste every year and while there are ongoing attempts to streamline its waste management, as seen with the introduction of the Commercial Waste Zones bill, the city as a whole is still heading in the wrong direction. Below is a compilation of the most important…Read More…
How Long Does It Take for Common Materials to Decompose?
Left exposed to the elements, different materials break down at very different rates – ranging from a matter of days to many thousands of years. But how long does it take some of the most everyday materials to break down? We’re going to take a look at the decomposition times of some common materials, how…Read More…