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Home Depot Improvement
Home Depot will collect CFLs for recycling |
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24 Jun 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 10:10 AM on 24 Jun 2008 Home Depot announced Tuesday that it will collect compact fluorescent light bulbs and send them off to be recycled. The home-improvement behemoth hopes the new program will keep the bulbs, which contain a small amount of mercury, out of household trash and recycling bins. IKEA also collects CFLs for recycling but doesn't have the market saturation of Home Depot; more than three-quarters of U.S. ho ... |
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| Topics: business, energy efficiency, green living, greening biz operations, greenish companies, mercury, news, recycling (all these topics) |
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BCause I Told You So
Eco-parents unimpressed by 'green' Barbie accessories |
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12 May 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 1:09 PM on 12 May 2008 Barbie BCause, toymaker Mattel's attempt to appeal to the green-minded tyke, has turned out to be not so popular with green-minded parents. The line of patchwork-y Barbie accessories made from cast-off fabric has inspired a blogging backlash. "The eco-conscious young girls I know of steer clear of Barbie," wrote Jennifer Lance on blog Eco Child's Play. "Truly green families ... |
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| Topics: business, green living, green products, greenwashing, news, parenting, recycling, shopping (all these topics) |
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Discarded Ken Not Included
New Mattel line lets you wear Barbie's discards |
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02 Apr 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 4:34 PM on 02 Apr 2008 We are not making this up: Mattel is planning a new line of accessories made from "excess fabric and trimmings from other Barbie doll fashions and products which would otherwise be discarded." The "playful and on-trend" Barbie BCause collection -- including handbags, hats, pillows, and diaries "each featuring its own unique variations and kitschy patchwork details ... |
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| Topics: business, green living, green products, insanity, news, parenting, recycling, shopping (all these topics) |
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Say cheeeeez
Kodak, Wal-Mart partner on photo kiosk recycling |
Katharine Wroth |
29 Feb 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Wal-Mart continues on the 'Seriously? They're still doing good stuff?' path with a new partnership with Kodak that will bring recycling to those handy in-store photo kiosks. The printer ribbon, spools, and cartridges recycled annually by the program will weigh about as much as six commercial planes. Which is, even by Wal-Mart standards, big. |
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| Topics: green living, shopping, recycling, Wal-Mart, business (all these topics) |
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'The Story of Stuff'
Another reason to procrastinate about my Christmas shopping |
Katy Balatero |
11 Dec 2007 |
Gristmill |
| From the producers of 'The Meatrix' and 'Grocery Store Wars' comes 'The Story of Stuff,' a short video about production and consumption, just in time for the holiday shopping binge. Click here for the full movie (sample clip embedded below). |
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| Topics: business, consumerism, green living, recycling, shopping, waste (all these topics) |
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Pop Top
Coca-Cola announces big recycling initiatives |
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06 Sep 2007 |
News |
| Posted at 2:36 PM on 06 Sep 2007 Speaking around gulps of carbonated, corn-syrupy beverage, Coca-Cola executives announced two environmental initiatives this week. By next year, the company plans to redesign its 20-ounce bottle to use 5 percent less plastic, and will open a gigantic recycling plant in South Carolina. Coca-Cola currently recycles or reuses about 10 percent of its U.S.-sold plastic bottles; the company hopes to raise that numb ... |
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| Topics: business, green living, greening biz operations, greenish companies, news, recycling (all these topics) |
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Cutting a Rug
Robert Peoples, carpet recycler, answers readers' questions |
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27 Jul 2007 |
InterActivist |
| What comes from a carpet when it is broken down for recycling? What is done with the recycled materials? Are there waste products left over? If there are, what is done with them? -- Carla Yamauchi, Tucson, Ariz. Robert Peoples, executive director of the Carpet America Recovery Effort Carpet is a highly engineered and complex product. It is built to last, and that is what makes it so challenging to recycle. Toda ... |
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| Topics: business, green living, InterActivist, interview, recycling (all these topics) |
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Wanna Shag?
Robert Peoples, carpet recycler, answers Grist's questions |
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23 Jul 2007 |
InterActivist |
| Robert Peoples. What work do you do? I run a nonprofit called the Carpet America Recovery Effort, or CARE. I serve as the executive director. I am also the director of sustainability for the Carpet and Rug Institute. Finally, I manage an environmental engineering and consulting company in Florida. I am a Ph.D. chemist by training. The reason I share this is to establish the idea that I try to deal in facts and inf ... |
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| Topics: business, green living, InterActivist, interview, recycling (all these topics) |
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Dude, You're Gettin' a Conscience
PC honcho Michael Dell announces new green initiatives |
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10 Jan 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Dude, You're Gettin' a Conscience PC honcho Michael Dell announces new green initiatives Amidst the energy-sucking glitz of Las Vegas, PC magnate Michael Dell announced that his eponymous company is greening up, and encouraged others to follow suit. Dell addressed two green-itiatives at an International Consumer Electronics Show speech yesterday. The first, a new partnership with carbon-offset provider Ca ... |
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| Topics: business, climate, green living, news, recycling (all these topics) |
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A Random Act of Mindfulness
Random House to bump up use of recycled paper |
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18 May 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| A Random Act of Mindfulness Random House to bump up use of recycled paper For you fogies who still read books made of ... what do they call it? ... "paper," here's some good news: Leading U.S. publishing company Random House announced this week that it plans to increase the recycled-paper content of its books to 30 percent by 2010. It's an ambitious goal, as only about 3 percent of paper currently used in ... |
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| Topics: business, green living, news, recycling (all these topics) |
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Remunerate
Eco-entrepreneurs pay people to recycle |
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21 Feb 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Remunerate Eco-entrepreneurs pay people to recycle What's the best way to get people to recycle? Same way you get them to do anything: pay them for it. Patrick FitzGerald and Ron Gonen founded RecycleBank in 2004 on the notion that economic incentives would motivate recycling more effectively than green principles. Their system rewards households with up to $400 a year in credits to national ... |
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| Topics: business, green living, news, recycling (all these topics) |
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Between the Sheets
Taking the wrinkles out of paper recycling |
Joel Makower |
31 Jan 2006 |
Toiling Point |
| Recycling paper at your company? How's it going? If you answered "yes" to the first question and "not so good" to the second, you're in fine company. After years of trying, an astonishing number of outfits both large and small are having trouble accomplishing this seemingly simple task. At least, that's my conclusion after talking with companies -- and hearing from Grist readers. Same ... |
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| Topics: business, green living, recycling (all these topics) |
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Tree Enterprise
Nicole Rycroft, recycled-paper pusher, answers readers' questions |
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16 Sep 2005 |
InterActivist |
| Nicole Rycroft, campaigns director for Markets Initiative. Is there a similar organization to Markets Initiative in the U.S.? -- Jerry Broadbent, Bucoda, Wash. There are a number of organizations that work to safeguard endangered forests by shifting U.S. market demand to more sustainable wood and paper products. Green Press Initiative is working with the U.S. book sector and Co-op America with the U. ... |
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| Topics: business, Canada, green living, InterActivist, interview, recycling, wilderness (all these topics) |
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Knob Appeal
On architectural salvage |
Umbra Fisk |
14 Sep 2005 |
Ask Umbra |
| Dear Umbra, We recently replaced the doorknobs in our place, so we have a fistful of old yet working doorknobs I'd hate to just toss. What to do with this and other perfectly good hardware? R.B.M. Arlington, Va. Dearest R.B.M., This answer goes out to you, but also to all your fellow home remodelers out there. One person's old doorknob is another's period-restoration item, as the adage goes. Don't knock it. You can, of course, try t ... |
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| Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, business, green living, recycling (all these topics) |
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Page of Enlightenment
Nicole Rycroft, forest-friendly book publisher, answers Grist's questions |
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12 Sep 2005 |
InterActivist |
| Nicole Rycroft. With what environmental organization are you affiliated? I'm the campaigns director for Markets Initiative. What does your organization do? We work to completely transform heavy paper-consuming industries in Canada (e.g., book, magazine, and newspaper sectors) -- to shift them away from papers originating from ancient or endangered forests and to reduce their overall paper ... |
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| Topics: business, Canada, green living, InterActivist, interview, recycling, wilderness (all these topics) |
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Design of the Times
Electronics manufacturers hop on the cradle-to-cradle bandwagon |
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24 Jan 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Design of the Times Electronics manufacturers hop on the cradle-to-cradle bandwagon Mindful of the growing impact of consumer electronics on the waste stream -- and of the likelihood that government regulations could one day require them to recycle their own wares -- electronics manufacturers like Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and Panasonic are beginning to design products with their full lifecycle in mind. ... |
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| Topics: business, green living, pollution and waste, recycling (all these topics) |
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Re-Bay
eBay joins tech companies to launch electronics recycling program |
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07 Jan 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Re-Bay eBay joins tech companies to launch electronics recycling program Wondering what to do with that old Commodore 64 or Macintosh II gathering dust in your basement? According to an eBay survey, you're not alone -- some 50 percent of American households have unwanted PCs in storage. That's why the online auction giant has launched an electronics recycling program they call Rethink. In a par ... |
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| Topics: business, green living, recycling, toxics, United States (all these topics) |
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They've Been Working on the Railroad
Recycled plastic railroad ties making inroads |
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19 Oct 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| They've Been Working on the Railroad Recycled plastic railroad ties making inroads There are nearly a billion wooden railroad ties holding together the railroads and subways of the U.S. That's a lot of wood, and thus a lot of trees. It's also a lot of creosote, a preservative chemical used on wood and deemed by the U.S. EPA "probably a human carcinogen." The cost of wood coupled ... |
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| Topics: business, green living, placemaking, recycling, United States (all these topics) |
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Working on the Chain Gang
California Cancels Use of Prison Labor to Recycle Electronics |
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07 Aug 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Working on the Chain Gang California Cancels Use of Prison Labor to Recycle Electronics California will no longer use underpaid federal prisoners to recycle the tons of potentially dangerous electronics discarded by state workers. The decision to stop shipping e-waste to prisons came in response to pressure from environmental and labor activists, who also successfully protested ... |
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| Topics: business, California, green living, health, pollution and waste, recycling (all these topics) |
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Self-Destructive Behavior
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23 May 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Self-Destructive Behavior It sounds like a bad movie. Wait, it IS a bad movie. A bad DVD, to be precise -- at least from an environmental standpoint. A division of Walt Disney this August will begin selling DVDs that self-destruct after 48 hours, dubbed EZ-Ds. After an EZ-D's plastic packaging is opened and it's exposed to oxygen, the disk plays perfectly for 48 hours; then a chemical ... |
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| Topics: business, green living, pollution and waste, recycling, United States (all these topics) |
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Paper Promises
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14 May 2003 |
Daily Grist |
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| Topics: business, green living, placemaking, recycling (all these topics) |
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Paper Promises
A review of Bronx Ecology and Tilting at Mills |
William Shutkin |
14 May 2003 |
Arts and Minds |
| These are tough times for environmentalists, what with the Bush administration's frontal assault on environmental policy, drastic funding cuts and layoffs in state environmental programs, and the aftermath of a war in Iraq fought, in the opinion of many, over our nation's undying addiction to oil. It's thus fitting, if somewhat disheartening, that along come two books whose central message is that it's n ... |
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| Topics: business, green living, New York, NRDC, recycling (all these topics) |
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Give a Hoot
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17 Apr 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Give a Hoot Pollution in North America decreased by 5 percent between 1995 and 2000, according to a report released today by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, established under the North American Free Trade Agreement. In 2000, the U.S., Canada, and Mexico released 3.6 million tons of pollution. Of that, 1.5 million ... |
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| Topics: business, Canada, globalization, green living, health, Mexico, North America, pollution and waste, recycling, United States (all these topics) |
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Bottlestar Galactica
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27 Jan 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Bottlestar Galactica If Michigan environmentalists get their way, the state will dramatically expand its bottle law to cover 750 million additional beverage containers per year, including juice, water, and tea bottles that currently wind up as litter or in landfills. The state's 1976 bottle law, which quickly cleaned up roadside litter, is both popular and successful. Every ... |
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| Topics: business, green living, Michigan, recycling, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics) |
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99 Bottles of Beer in a Dumpster
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11 Jul 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| 99 Bottles of Beer in a Dumpster For the first time in at least a decade, Congress is considering a national bottle bill, thanks to the efforts of Sen. James Jeffords (I-Vt.), head of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. Jeffords, who has battled for such a bottle bill for nearly 30 years, introduced a measure today that would shift the burden of recycling from states, cities, and consumer ... |
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| Topics: business, green living, recycling, United States (all these topics) |
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