{"57519":{"#nid":"57519","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Disposable cameras can have nine lives","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ERochester Democrat and Chronicle\u003C\/em\u003E - April 7, 2009\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe 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\u0027s hands at the end of their life cycle, said Valerie Thomas, an associate professor of natural systems at Georgia Institute of Technology.  \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.democratandchronicle.com\/article\/20090407\/BUSINESS\/904070308\/1001\u0022\u003ERead more\u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2009-04-07 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:25","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-04-07T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2009-04-07T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"57458","name":"ISyE External News"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}