news
Disposable cameras can have nine lives
Primary tabs
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - April 7, 2009
The jumble of cameras comes in daily by the tractor trailer load, packed in cardboard boxes. Employees of OutSource empty the boxes onto a conveyor belt in a loud rattle of hard plastic, the line carrying the cameras past sorters who toss Kodaks into one box, Fujis into another and so on... Single-use cameras, like car batteries, have high recycling rates because they naturally end up in a business's hands at the end of their life cycle, said Valerie Thomas, an associate professor of natural systems at Georgia Institute of Technology. Read more>>>
Groups
Status
- Workflow Status:Published
- Created By:Barbara Christopher
- Created:04/06/2009
- Modified By:Fletcher Moore
- Modified:10/07/2016
Categories
Keywords