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 Stories About: advice AND Ask Umbra AND education AND green living AND recycling
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Bag Lady
On reusable recycling bags |
Umbra Fisk |
27 Jan 2005 |
Ask Umbra |
| Dear Umbra, I am the cofounder and current president of the Recycling Club at R.L. Paschal High School in Fort Worth, Texas. We have started collecting cell phones and plan to donate them to Verizon, since they refurbish and recycle or sell them. With the money they make, they buy new ones with airtime for (in our town) ladies at the Women's Haven shelter. We plan to start recycling plastics too. I need a bag for all this paper. Anywa ... |
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| Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, education, green living, recycling (all these topics) |
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Cater to Pater
On intransigent non-recyclers |
Umbra Fisk |
15 Jan 2004 |
Ask Umbra |
| Dear Umbra, I am a completely eco-friendly person and strive to have my family follow in those footsteps. We have a recycling system -- one my canned-beer-drinking dad refuses to abide by. (Not that I'm criticizing canned beer or my father. Both are good.) He refuses to recycle his cans, and I'm a little tired of digging them out of the garbage. Is there anything I could do to change his outlook on his wastefulness? Rebecca ... |
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| Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, education, green living, recycling (all these topics) |
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The Paper Chase
On corporate paper recycling |
Umbra Fisk |
23 Apr 2002 |
Ask Umbra |
| I work for a large corporation that is very wasteful with paper. I am looking for information on whom I can complain to about this so that something will happen. They do not use recycled paper or require any recycling of paper. Beth Dearest Beth, Prepare yourself: The fate of reams of office paper is in your hands. You must be the defender of the discarded draft, the champion of the crumpled wad, the protector of the printer ... |
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| Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, business, education, green living, recycling, waste (all these topics) |
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