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Toyota Story		10 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Toyota Story Toyota is racing to make its cars at least as recyclable as those of its European rivals, Volkswagen and DaimlerChrysler. The Japanese automaker announced yesterday that the vehicles it produces in Japan and Europe should be at least 85 percent recyclable by 2006 and 95 percent recyclable by 2016, up from 83 percent today. The move will help Toyota expand its market share in Europe, where ...
Topics: European Union, green living, placemaking, recycling (all these topics)

Muggles Get It Right, for Once		09 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Muggles Get It Right, for Once The Canadian edition of "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" -- to be released later this month as the fifth book in J.K. Rowlings' phenomenally popular series -- has been printed on chlorine-free, 100 percent post-consumer recycled paper. With a first print run of 935,000 copies, this is by far the largest recycled printing in Canadian history. Rowlings endorsed the move with ...
Topics: Canada, green living, 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)

Dairy Godmother On milk cartons	Umbra Fisk	15 May 2003	Ask Umbra
Hi Umbra, I don't know if the same thing has happened in the U.S, but here in Canada the milk industry has undergone a massive shift to using different containers. Once, you could get plastic jugs or cardboard cartons with fold-back lids or plastic bags. But now, the most commonly available container is a revised carton. It has a plastic spout, as if pouring with the other kind were too hard. Can you tell me which of the containers has th ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, food and agriculture, green living, recycling (all these topics)

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 ...
Topics: business, green living, New York, NRDC, recycling (all these topics)

Paper Promises		14 May 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: business, green living, placemaking, recycling (all these topics)

Can You Recycle Me Now?		12 May 2003	Daily Grist
Can You Recycle Me Now? Cell phone users now have a way to recycle their old phones and support the Sierra Club in the process. About a million mobile phones are tossed out each week in the U.S. as consumers upgrade or switch to different phone service providers, and those old phones leak a bunch of toxic substances, including mercury, lead, and arsenic, into the environment. CollectiveGood, a recycling ...
Topics: green living, recycling, Sierra Club, United States (all these topics)

Nice Day for a Green Wedding		08 May 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: green living, recycling (all these topics)

Europe Paean		21 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Europe Paean Major American corporations may be getting off easy on environmental regulations in the U.S. these days, but they're being forced to toe the line in Europe. Rules adopted this year will require all electronics manufacturers doing business in European Union countries to eliminate use of lead, mercury, and other heavy metals from their products, ...
Topics: European Union, globalization, green living, politics, recycling, toxics, United States, waste (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)

Bamboo Ado On wood floors and solid waste	Umbra Fisk	27 Feb 2003	Ask Umbra
Oh Wise Umbra, We'll be replacing our carpeting with wood flooring, probably from one of the major home stores (Home Depot or Lowe's). Are wood floors a really bad environmental choice if they are made from unsustainably harvested wood? Would I be better off going with a (probably petroleum-based) fake wood floor? Also, is there any environmentally responsible way to dispose of my old carpet? If the nice garbage collectors pick ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green building, green living, green products, placemaking, recycling, waste (all these topics)

End-of-Life Plans for Cell Phones	Suzy Becker	24 Feb 2003	Ha.

Topics: green living, recycling, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

Catalog of Thrills	Suzy Becker	03 Feb 2003	Ha.

Topics: green living, recycling (all these topics)

Bottlestar Galactica		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 ...
Topics: business, green living, Michigan, recycling, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

Water Conservation in the New Year	Suzy Becker	06 Jan 2003	Ha.

Topics: green living, recycling (all these topics)

Turning Japanese		16 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Turning Japanese An Eco-Products exhibition held recently in Tokyo, Japan, attracted more than 100,000 visitors and no shortage of unusual inventions. The big-ticket item was, of course, Toyota's fuel-cell car, which has just been leased to the Japanese government, but there were plenty of other forms of green ingenuity on display as well. These ranged from the mundane (energy-saving domestic appliances and ...
Topics: green living, Japan, recycling, water pollution (all these topics)

Cell-ebrate		13 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Cell-ebrate Every year, hundreds of millions of new cell phones come into the world -- and now, thanks to a deal brokered by the United Nations Environment Programme, when they leave the world, they may do so in a relatively eco-friendly fashion. Yesterday, the giants of the electronics industry (including market leaders Nokia, Motorola, Philips, and Samsung) promised to work with UNEP to pilot programs ensuring tha ...
Topics: green living, recycling, United Nations (all these topics)

Wrapture On wrapping paper	Umbra Fisk	10 Dec 2002	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, Any suggestions on where to find recycled wrapping paper? I know the real environmental choice is to reuse stuff I have around the house, but sometimes newspaper, etc., just doesn't have the right look. Any ideas where I can find recycled/tree-free wrapping paper for the holiday season? I've been looking around (both online and off) but all I can find is rolls of brown packing paper. I want something a little more festive. Thanks, ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green living, holiday, recycling (all these topics)

Lifestyles of the Rich, Famous, and Recycled		06 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Lifestyles of the Rich, Famous, and Recycled Having dispensed with the good news, we can now move on to the goofy news: Danny Seo, the young fashion guru who has been featured in Grist's pages before as the Martha Stewart of the environmental movement, is packing up his New York life and moving to Los Angeles to position himself as an "environmental lifestyle consultant" to the stars. In that unlike ...
Topics: California, green living, New York, 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)

Americans' Waste Lines Expanding		04 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Americans' Waste Lines Expanding One mantra of the environmental movement in the U.S. has been "reduce, reuse, recycle," but consumption patterns in the country reveal a nearly opposite trend: buy, use, discard. Disposable culture is on the rise across the country, and has been ever since single-use razors and disposable diapers hit the shelves in the 1960s. Now disposable cameras and disposable cell phones (the recently i ...
Topics: green living, recycling (all these topics)

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