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Re-Bay eBay joins tech companies to launch electronics recycling program		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 ...
Topics: business, green living, recycling, toxics, United States (all these topics)

They've Been Working on the Railroad Recycled plastic railroad ties making inroads		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 ...
Topics: business, green living, placemaking, recycling, United States (all these topics)

Self-Destructive Behavior		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 ...
Topics: business, green living, pollution and waste, recycling, United States (all these topics)

Give a Hoot		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 ...
Topics: business, Canada, globalization, green living, health, Mexico, North America, pollution and waste, recycling, United States (all these topics)

99 Bottles of Beer in a Dumpster		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 ...
Topics: business, green living, recycling, United States (all these topics)

Bad Company		10 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
Bad Company Commercial recycling is hit or miss in the U.S. -- in some cases, for example, companies assume that recycling is occurring, but their cleaning companies are actually mixing recycling with garbage and throwing everything out as trash. From 35 to 45 percent of waste produced in the U.S. in 1999 was commercial, according to the U.S. EPA. Unlike in Europe, however, t ...
Topics: business, green living, pollution and waste, recycling, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Data Dump		23 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Data Dump State officials in the Pacific Northwest are searching for ways to reduce the amount of high-tech waste ending up in landfills. The waste in Oregon has more than doubled since 1998, and it can be nasty stuff -- computer monitors and televisions contain four to eight pounds of lead each. The officials are considering a "bottle bill&q ...
Topics: business, green living, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, pollution and waste, recycling, toxics, United States (all these topics)

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