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LeSabre Rattling On car disposal	Umbra Fisk	27 Jul 2005	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, My wife and I are making plans to purchase our first hybrid vehicle and need to properly dispose of our current car -- a 1989 Buick LeSabre. My question is, what is the best way to get rid of it? It is old and has a lot of miles on it. I suppose the dealer may take it off our hands for a very small trade-in amount -- at which point, they will probably just send it to the scrap yard. What are the odds of it getting properly re ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, cars, green living, placemaking, recycling (all these topics)

PET Cemetery New recycling plant may help Mexico cope with litter and landfills		19 Jul 2005	Daily Grist
PET Cemetery New recycling plant may help Mexico cope with litter and landfills Mexicans lead the globe in gulping sugary drinks, but recycle only a thin sliver of the 9 billion PET (polyethylene terephthalate) bottles they use every year. Hoping to jump-start a national culture of recycling, Environment Minister Jose Luis Luege attended last week's opening of a new recycling plant near the city of Toluca, which will ...
Topics: green living, Mexico, news, recycling (all these topics)

Slitherin' Scholastic Greens urge boycott of Harry Potter's U.S. publisher		15 Jul 2005	Daily Grist
Slitherin' Scholastic Greens urge boycott of Harry Potter's U.S. publisher J. K. Rowling and a coalition of eco-Muggles are giving props to Canadian publisher Raincoast Books for printing Rowling's hotly anticipated sixth novel -- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, being released tonight -- entirely on recycled paper. Canadian conservation group Markets Initiative estimates that Raincoast's good gre ...
Topics: Canada, green living, news, recycling, wilderness (all these topics)

Call Collect Seth Heine of CollectiveGood answers readers' questions		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 ...
Topics: green living, InterActivist, interview, recycling (all these topics)

Revenge of the Seth Seth Heine of CollectiveGood answers Grist's questions		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 ...
Topics: green living, InterActivist, interview, recycling (all these topics)

Ferry Godfather Architect shows that reusing discarded materials can be chic		03 Jun 2005	Daily Grist
Ferry Godfather Architect shows that reusing discarded materials can be chic Greens have been going on for years about the need to reuse society's refuse. Now, a high-end modernist San Francisco architect named Olle Lundberg is showing that scavenging is not just for the poor and idealistic. The rich can play too! For instance, Lundberg lives on a decommissioned Icelandic auto ferry, retrofitted with materials di ...
Topics: California, green living, news, 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)

A Sorted Affair Japanese municipalities take recycling to a whole new level		13 May 2005	Daily Grist
A Sorted Affair Japanese municipalities take recycling to a whole new level Yokohama, Japan, a city of 3.5 million, recently sent its citizens a 27-page instruction book on how to sort trash for recycling into 10 different categories, detailing how to dispose of more than 500 separate items, from used lipstick tubes to old socks. The city aims to slash the amount of waste being sent to incinerators by 30 percent by 20 ...
Topics: green living, Japan, news, recycling (all these topics)

Message in a Bottle Bill U.S. bottle-recycling rates fall as bottled-water sales rise		02 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Message in a Bottle Bill U.S. bottle-recycling rates fall as bottled-water sales rise Plastic bottle recycling rates in the U.S. have plunged, at least in part because of the boom in sales of bottled water -- from some 3.3 billion bottles in 1997 to 15 billion in 2002. So, what to do? Some environmental activists argue that one of the most effective tools for pushing up recycling rates is a ...
Topics: green living, news, recycling, United States, water pollution (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)

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 ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, education, green living, 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)

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)

Trash Test Dummies Mongo and Found uncover the hidden pleasures of reduce-reuse-recycle	Michelle Nijhuis	07 Dec 2004	Arts and Minds
Mongo, by Ted Botha, Bloomsbury, 288 pgs., 2004. Flo and Channing, a pair of occasionally employed, twentysomething hipsters in lower Manhattan, live well. At least, they eat well. They favor sushi and vegetarian pizza and soy milk and artisan bread, and they also like to indulge in custard pastries, chocolate-covered strawberries, chocolate croissants, and Krispy Kreme dough ...
Topics: green living, recycling (all these topics)

Postmodern Deconstructionism Building recycling on the rise		02 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
Postmodern Deconstructionism Building recycling on the rise The demolition of buildings in the U.S. produces about 124 million tons of debris a year, most of which is carted off to landfills. But that is starting to change: Instead of indiscriminately bashing buildings with wrecking balls, companies are taking a more deliberate approach, dismantling structures and recycling the materials. For instance, PNC Financi ...
Topics: green living, recycling, 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)

Ay, There's the Stub On recycling pencil stubs	Umbra Fisk	27 Sep 2004	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I'm looking for a place that accepts pencil stubs (one to two inches long) to recycle into new pencils. I've found recycled pencils online -- made from denim, plastic, recovered wood, and paper currency. But what can I do with my stubs? Phoenix Covington, Ky. Dearest Phoenix, All the waste-reduction tips tell you to stop using wooden pencils, but that doesn't help with the ones you already have. Plus wooden pen ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green living, recycling, waste (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)

Circuit Boards Roasting on an Open Fire Dumped Electronics Poisoning Poor in Asia		25 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
Circuit Boards Roasting on an Open Fire Dumped Electronics Poisoning Poor in Asia Computers and other electronics discarded in the West frequently end up in poor villages in China and India, where they are stripped for residues of valuable metals in primitive procedures that poison local communities. Enviro activists report that Chinese villagers cook circuit boards over open charcoal burners to s ...
Topics: environmental justice, green living, politics, recycling (all these topics)

Bottle Racket On plastic water bottles	Umbra Fisk	02 Aug 2004	Ask Umbra
Several readers have sent in questions about the dangers of chemical leaching from plastic bottles. A composite version: Dear Umbra, I've read some conflicting things about the risks associated with reusing plastic water bottles. For instance, the generally trustworthy folks at the urban-legends site snopes.com have criticized a widely circulated email that claims regular water bottles are not safe for refilling because the plastic ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green living, recycling, toxics (all these topics)

Girl on Film On recycling videotapes and laser discs	Umbra Fisk	17 Jun 2004	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I'm a dedicated cineaste, and over the last decade I've built up a large library (around 5,000 titles) of classic films on VHS and old-fashioned laser discs. I have been anxious to start adding DVDs to my collection, with all the extra features they offer, but I've held off because I know that any further expansion of my collection will require me to make more space -- i.e., get rid of a bunch of bulky pla ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green living, recycling, waste (all these topics)

Control-Alt-Recycle Tips on greener computing	Pam Lundquist, P.W. McRandle, for the Green Guide	06 Apr 2004	Earthly Possessions
By Pam Lundquist and P.W. McRandle, for the Green Guide 06 Apr 2004 OK computer. U.S. consumers are being cheated out of the chance to buy the greenest possible computers, according to the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition and other environmental groups that have joined forces on the Computer TakeBack Campaign. The campaign's latest report card examined 28 computer manufacturers' practices regarding hazardous materials, worker health and safety, and ...
Topics: green living, recycling, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Jewel-Use Technology On recycling CD jewel cases	Umbra Fisk	25 Mar 2004	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I've been Googling all over to find a place where I can recycle old CD cases, to no avail. I'm moving soon and would really like to find an environmentally safe way to dispose of these things. Do you know of any place they can be dropped off, or any other alternatives? Melissa Edgewater, N.J. Dearest Melissa, Here's an answer not just for you, but for all those readers who write in with insanely specific rec ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green living, recycling (all these topics)

Table of Contents On post-consumer content	Umbra Fisk	25 Mar 2004	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, So I was sitting there at lunch, eating my crackers, when I spied a recycling symbol and was confused. What is "pre-consumer" content? I mean, if the label is true ("carton made from 100 percent recycled paperboard -- minimum 35 percent post-consumer content"), what is the other 65 percent? And what is paperboard? Kevin Laurel, Md. Dearest Kevin, Pre-consumer content is the stuff picked up from ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green living, recycling (all these topics)

Recyclical Market On the market for recycled material	Umbra Fisk	25 Mar 2004	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, In reference to your polystyrene response: The polystyrene I have seen recently appears with a No. 6 recycling triangle on the bottom. But I've heard there is no market for this stuff, even though our local recycling company claims to want us to collect all Nos. 1 through 7. How can this be? Gail San Bruno, Calif. Dearest Gail, It's a trick. Since recycling became the Next Big Thing in the 1980s, town ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green living, recycling (all these topics)

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