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Headline	Author	Published	Section
I'm the Train Wreck They Call the City of New Orleans New Orleans debris heads to the landfill, isn't reused or recycled		14 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
I'm the Train Wreck They Call the City of New Orleans New Orleans debris heads to the landfill, isn't reused or recycled New Orleans is taking great pains to recycle the waste left by Hurricane Katrina. Wait, you believed that? We're totally lying. Debris from the pummeled city is being dumped in the landfill by the truckload, including heaps of potentially reusable building materials such as ...
Topics: green living, Louisiana, news, pollution and waste, recycling (all these topics)

An Offer: They Can't Dump E-Refuse NYC considers tough e-waste bill		26 May 2005	Daily Grist
An Offer: They Can't Dump E-Refuse NYC considers tough e-waste bill One of the toughest electronic-waste bills in the U.S. was introduced in the New York City Council yesterday. It would require producers of electronic equipment like computers and televisions to collect and recycle those devices -- that is, if they want to maintain selling rights within the city. City officials like council me ...
Topics: green living, New York, news, pollution and waste, recycling (all these topics)

The Apple Dumping Gang Enviros say Apple's iPod isn't green		09 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
The Apple Dumping Gang Enviros say Apple's iPod isn't green New legislation introduced in the House of Representatives last week would establish a consumer fee on computer and television purchases to fund a national electronics recycling program. But activists say the real answer to the "e-waste" problem is increased responsibility from manufacturers, and many are focusing their ire on Apple, maker o ...
Topics: green living, pollution and waste, recycling (all these topics)

Design of the Times Electronics manufacturers hop on the cradle-to-cradle bandwagon		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. ...
Topics: business, green living, pollution and waste, recycling (all these topics)

I Like Mike New York City mayor signs long-term recycling contract		15 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
I Like Mike New York City mayor signs long-term recycling contract The debate over whether recycling is economically "worth it" continues, but one famously tight-fisted municipal leader has made up his mind. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) announced that the city will sign a 20-year contract with one of the nation's largest recycling companies, Hugo Neu Corp., which will build a ...
Topics: green living, New York, pollution and waste, recycling (all these topics)

Watching Their Waste California Passes Cutting-Edge E-Waste Law		26 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Watching Their Waste California Passes Cutting-Edge E-Waste Law Consistent with its habit of pushing the environmental envelope, California has adopted the nation's most comprehensive law governing the manufacture and disposal of electronics. The law has three main purposes: to speed the recycling of discarded computers and televisions (some 6 million of which await disposal across the ...
Topics: California, green living, politics, pollution and waste, recycling (all these topics)

Working on the Chain Gang California Cancels Use of Prison Labor to Recycle Electronics		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 ...
Topics: business, California, green living, health, pollution and waste, recycling (all these topics)

Let the Games Be Green Enviros Accuse 2004 Athens Olympic Organizers of Green Failings		06 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Let the Games Be Green Enviros Accuse 2004 Athens Olympic Organizers of Green Failings Organizers of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens are already getting poor scores from environmentalists, who say the Greeks have missed numerous opportunities to make the games more eco-friendly. Greece won its bid to host the games in part by pledging to protect vulnerable natural and cultural areas an ...
Topics: Greece, green living, placemaking, pollution and waste, recycling (all these topics)

Bottleneck		28 May 2003	Daily Grist
Bottleneck Evian, Perrier, Poland Spring -- bottled water has become ubiquitous in the U.S., and the resultant plastic containers are posing an increasingly serious problem by clogging landfills and contributing to air pollution. In California, where bottled water is particularly popular, the state Department of Conservation is unveiling a campaign this week to convince consumers to recycle rather ...
Topics: California, green living, pollution and waste, recycling (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)

Too Cool, from School		20 May 2003	Daily Grist
Too Cool, from School Pennsylvania State University has undertaken a massive new recycling program -- not for paper or plastics or food waste, but for the mammoth piles of stuff that students leave behind at the end of every school year, from sneakers to TVs to sofas. The end-of-term junk problem grew into a major headache on U.S. campuses during the 1990s, as ...
Topics: green living, Pennsylvania, pollution and waste, recycling, solid waste treatment and disposal (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)

The Reformer in the Dell		20 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
The Reformer in the Dell Beginning on March 25, owners of outdated Dell personal computers will be able to treat them like glass, aluminum, plastic, and paper -- by leaving them on the curb for recycling. For $15, Dell will haul away up to 50 pounds worth of discarded computer components (monitors, hard drives, laptops, and the like) for recycling or donation to other users. The plan is an improvement on a recy ...
Topics: green living, pollution and waste, recycling (all these topics)

The Motherboard of Invention		28 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
The Motherboard of Invention As Grist reported Monday, discarded electronic equipment poses a serious environmental and health hazard in the developing world, where obsolete computers and other products are stripped and recycled. Now, we have some good news to add; 16 electronics recyclers in the U.S. and Canada have committed to keeping monitors, cables, and motherboards out of the hands of impoverish ...
Topics: green living, health, pollution and waste, recycling (all these topics)

Drag Your Computer to the Recycle Bin		05 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Drag Your Computer to the Recycle Bin In an abrupt departure from past policy, high-tech giant Hewlett-Packard has announced that it will support California legislation requiring computer manufacturers to pay for safe disposal of electronic waste. In October, HP used its considerable clout as the world's largest maker of personal com ...
Topics: California, China, commercial and industry organizations, green living, health, pollution and waste, recycling, toxics (all these topics)

Put a Radioactive Fork in It		17 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Put a Radioactive Fork in It A proposal by the U.S. Department of Energy to recycle radioactive steel did not go over well with environmentalists and other concerned citizens in Minneapolis yesterday. The DOE is considering a plan to recycle slightly contaminated scrap metal from its research and weapons facilities. The recycled steel would then be used in consumer goods from snow shovels ...
Topics: Department of Energy, green living, pollution and waste, recycling (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)

Getting the Munchies		31 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Getting the Munchies Over the next few months, a Mobile Muncher bus will visit every large town in Spain to help the country reach its goal of recycling 100 tons of mobile phones within a year. The country developed the Mobile Muncher mascot as a way to increase public support for the campaign and inform people of the danger of throwing out their old phones; ...
Topics: green living, pollution and waste, recycling, solid waste treatment and disposal, Spain, toxics (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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