 Stories About: green living AND InterActivist AND interview AND recycling
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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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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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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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Call Collect
Seth Heine of CollectiveGood answers readers' questions |
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15 Jul 2005 |
InterActivist |
| Seth Heine, CollectiveGood. So I know what bands you like and the ages of your children, but I still have no idea what actually happens to old cell phones when they are properly disposed of. Inquiring minds want to know! -- Wendy James, Burbank, Calif. About half of the phones we collect go into reuse after testing and refurbishment processes. The other half (and all of the accessories) go through materials recla ... |
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Revenge of the Seth
Seth Heine of CollectiveGood answers Grist's questions |
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11 Jul 2005 |
InterActivist |
| Seth Heine. With what environmental organizations are you affiliated? I'm the president of CollectiveGood and RIPMobile.com -- mobile phone recyclers. What do your organizations do? What, in a perfect world, would constitute "mission accomplished"? CollectiveGood recycles mobile devices (phones, pagers, PDAs) and all of their related accessories, usually in partnerships with charities, companies, and ... |
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