Plastic is inexpensive, durable, and lightweight, so it makes sense that it’s used abundantly in manufacturing. Plastics are used to manufacture a staggering number of products we use every day – everything from food and beverage containers to trash and grocery bags and even children’s toys and diapers. But all this product has to go […]
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Fall in Love with Recycling This February – Five Benefits of Recycling
Carolina Fibre looks for ways in everyday life to show love to our earth and protect the environment. And one of our favorite ways is through recycling.
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Why Recycling and Using Recycled Paper at the Office is so Important
There has been a lot of discussion about reducing our American workplaces’ footprint, but unfortunately, statistics show that U.S. companies continue to be huge contributors to environmental destruction. Pollution, climate change, waste in waterways, and deforestation are just some of the environmental degradation that comes from our corporations. Many of those contributions are in the form […]
Four Essential Summer Recycling Tips
In most states, summer is beginning to wind down, but in southern North Carolina, we are still in the thick of it. Our weekends are still filled with day trips, beach days, and pool time. It adds up to a lot of time spent outside in a beautiful environment, and we want to be sure […]
6 Ridiculously Easy Ways to Help the Environment
Using expanding technology can make our lives easier, but it can also damage the environment. Much of our technology releases toxic greenhouse gasses and other emissions that are harmful to the planet, especially most transportation technology. Thankfully, as people become increasingly aware of our technology’s impact on the earth, we’ve used innovation to create new […]
6 Ways to “Green” your Holiday
The holidays are a time for peace on Earth and goodwill toward men, but decorating your home with hundreds of energy-zapping twinkle lights and throwing away four garbage bags full of wrapping paper doesn’t really fit either category. According to the EPA Blog, between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day, American household waste increases by more than […]
Four Ways to Recycle Your Old Books and Textbooks
Another school year is here, and that more means books, papers and magazines cluttering your home. As they all start trickling in this season, you realize you haven’t even gotten rid of unnecessary materials from the past three years. So what are you supposed to do with all these old textbooks and novels? Your first […]
How to Go – And Stay – Green During Your Next Vacation
The salty spray of ocean waves, open roads, the wind in your hair: summer vacation season is fast approaching! If, like the Carolina Fibre team, you live in a state that makes traveling to various landscapes an easy feat, then you might only be planning on a brief road trip or two this season. But […]
Carolina Fibre Attends the Carolina Recycling Association’s 24th Annual Conference and Tradeshow
Members of our team attended the Carolina Recycling Association’s (CRA) 24th Annual Conference and Trade Show last week at the Omni Grove Park Inn in Asheville, North Carolina. The CRA has been in the business of advancing waste reduction and recycling in the Carolinas since 1989 and is maintained by multi-national corporations, small businesses, local […]
Carolina Fibre Corporation Attends the Southeast Recycling Conference and Trade Show
Earlier this week, members of our team attended the 26th Southeast Recycling Conference and Trade Show (SERC) at the Hilton Sandestin Beach Golf Resort & Spa in Destin, Florida. The SERC is the provider of the premier forum that informs the public and private sectors of the significance of recycling and waste reduction. Like Carolina […]
