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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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Yes, Virgin, there is a green festival
Virgin Festival 'near-zero waste' for first time |
Sarah van Schagen |
25 Jul 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: carbon offsets, climate, green living, music, 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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| Topics: business, green living, InterActivist, interview, recycling (all these topics) |
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Bangers and Gnash
Brits raise a fuss over less-frequent rubbish collection |
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17 Jul 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Bangers and Gnash Brits raise a fuss over less-frequent rubbish collection Baffled Brits are raising a stink over a policy that's become popular with local councils in their country: collecting trash every two weeks instead of weekly. Enacted by about 40 percent of councils, the practice -- which alternates the pick-up of trash and recyclables -- aims to encourage recycling and meet an E.U. goa ... |
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| Topics: consumerism, England, green living, news, recycling, waste (all these topics) |
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Well, tickle my magic wand
Harry Potter goes green, but what about the rest of the industry? |
Kate Sheppard |
11 Jul 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: books, green living, recycling (all these topics) |
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Whence It Came
On biodegradable products |
Umbra Fisk |
11 Jul 2007 |
Ask Umbra |
| Dearest Umbra, With biodegradable corn-plastic products like clothes hangers, credit cards, and trash bags, we are led to believe there are good alternatives to plastic that can be thrown out guilt-free. But doesn't all trash get put in landfills that are then hermetically sealed to prevent the bad contaminants from leaching out, but hold in the things that would have been composting otherwise? I thought that was the reason to co ... |
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| Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, energy, green living, oil, recycling, shopping (all these topics) |
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Bonnaroo crowds (and trash) arrive
Look out! |
Sarah van Schagen |
15 Jun 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: Bonnaroo, green living, music, recycling, waste (all these topics) |
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The Trouble With Dribbles
On seltzer bottles |
Umbra Fisk |
04 Jun 2007 |
Ask Umbra |
| Dear Umbra, I love drinking fizzy water, especially in the summer, but I am appalled to learn that the plastic bottles use petroleum in their production. Plus, hauling them home from the supermarket burns gas. I've been looking at seltzer bottles, also known as soda siphons, the original source of carbonated water, and also much fun in Marx Brothers movies. Once I bought the siphon, the only cost would be the charging capsule ... |
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| Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, food, recycling, shopping (all these topics) |
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Depositive Thinking
On returnable bottles |
Umbra Fisk |
30 May 2007 |
Ask Umbra |
| Hi Umbra, I've been wondering lately what happened to the returnable bottles that were so common up until some point in the '70s. Why did the legislation go away? Does reusing bottles use less energy? It seems like it would, but I haven't found info on advocating for bottle reuse in any of the green action plans floating around. Anne Speck Lafayette, Colo. Dearest Anne, In days of yore, portable beverages came in glass bottles, ... |
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| Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, food, recycling (all these topics) |
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How not to do it: A case study
They're not happy until you're happy |
JMG |
12 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: recycling, green living (all these topics) |
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Rebooting campus computing
UC system greens electronics program |
Kate Sheppard |
09 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: California, campus activism, green living, recycling (all these topics) |
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Pedro the recycling otter
Seriously |
David Roberts |
22 Feb 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: waste, recycling, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Kids these days
Two yoot-based eco-vids |
Sarah van Schagen |
26 Jan 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: education, green living, innovation, recycling (all these topics) |
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Dude, You're Gettin' a Conscience
PC honcho Michael Dell announces new green initiatives |
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10 Jan 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Dude, You're Gettin' a Conscience PC honcho Michael Dell announces new green initiatives Amidst the energy-sucking glitz of Las Vegas, PC magnate Michael Dell announced that his eponymous company is greening up, and encouraged others to follow suit. Dell addressed two green-itiatives at an International Consumer Electronics Show speech yesterday. The first, a new partnership with carbon-offset provider Ca ... |
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| Topics: business, climate, green living, news, recycling (all these topics) |
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The chain gangs of the Information Age
E-waste recycling in U.S. prisons |
Kate Sheppard |
22 Dec 2006 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: e-waste, recycling, waste (all these topics) |
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Wrapper's Delight
On wrapping creatively |
Umbra Fisk |
18 Dec 2006 |
Ask Umbra |
| Dear Umbra, Due to my procrastinating nature, I once again find myself in the position of having to wrap what seems like hundreds of gifts in wasteful wrapping paper, only to have it torn apart and thrown away the very next day. I'm a proponent of the "reduce, reuse, recycle" philosophy, but during the holidays, wrapping my gifts in the Sunday comics doesn't say "mindful conservationist" so much as it says &q ... |
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| Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green living, holiday, recycling (all these topics) |
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License Plates Never Looked So Good
Inmates exposed to toxins in e-waste recycling program, says report |
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23 Oct 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| License Plates Never Looked So Good Inmates exposed to toxins in e-waste recycling program, says report A federal recycling program that uses cheap prison labor to recycle computers and other electronics exposes inmates to unsafe conditions, says a report released by activist and environmental groups last week. Prisoners paid from 23 cents to $1.15 an hour by government-owned Federal Prison Industries, Inc., also kno ... |
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| Topics: green living, news, recycling, toxics (all these topics) |
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Consumption Unction, What's Your Function?
On reducing consumption |
Umbra Fisk |
02 Oct 2006 |
Ask Umbra |
| Dear Umbra, If recycling requires energy to turn one's discarded waste into usable products, and "climate solutions take precedence over garbage-production concerns," as you wrote in June, why are we so focused on recycling and not on reducing our initial consumption? Surely this should be at the forefront of the individual consumer's attempts to help the environment, shouldn't it? Consumed wit ... |
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| Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green living, recycling, waste (all these topics) |
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Wireless Is More
Green communications technology heading to developing countries |
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31 Aug 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Wireless Is More Green communications technology heading to developing countries Solar-powered internet and recycled cell phones are coming to a developing country near you. Internet access is widely heralded as a tool with the potential to transform the lives of low-income people, but construction of a wired network to remote villages is often prohibitively expensive. Enter the Green Wi-Fi p ... |
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| Topics: business, globalization, news, recycling, solar voltaic power (all these topics) |
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Counter Measures
On countertops |
Umbra Fisk |
24 Jul 2006 |
Ask Umbra |
| With the home remodeling boom, we keep wondering: what is the best countertop choice? We've gone through a couple homes since getting married, and are now considering building our own. Laminate, Formica, butcher block, concrete, granite, plastic, composite, tile ... they all have their own durability merits and drawbacks, but from creation to home health, which is the friendliest? Leonie Mowat and Greg Overley North Las Vegas, Nev. Dear ... |
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| Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green living, green products, recycling (all these topics) |
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MP3's Company
On CDs and MP3s |
Umbra Fisk |
19 Jul 2006 |
Ask Umbra |
| Dear Umbra, As I was carrying a stack of CDs from the car into my home, my sister laughed and showed me the size of her MP3 player, which contains well over 100 times the music at a fraction of the size. Environmentally, which causes less of an impact? I hear that all these (non-recyclable) portable devices are terrible for the environment, and I've had some of my CDs going on (gasp!) 15 years. Downloading seems like it produces less waste, ... |
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| Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, e-waste, green living, recycling, toxics (all these topics) |
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Tape of Good Hope
On recycling tapes and videos |
Umbra Fisk |
17 Jul 2006 |
Ask Umbra |
| Dear Umbra, What to do? I'm a child of the late '70s, and one of the last to remember what it was like to exchange a mix tape at age 15. Now I'm hitting my 30s, and realize I still have that Color Me Badd tape. I really want to chuck it, but don't have the heart to put it in the trash. What's a girl to do? Where can I send my shamefully-bad-taste-in-music tapes? Patricia O. North Plainfield, N.J. Dearest Patricia, Hey, s ... |
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| Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green living, recycling (all these topics) |
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All Up in Your Grill
On recycling foil |
Umbra Fisk |
12 Jul 2006 |
Ask Umbra |
| Dear Umbra, Summertime grilling is in full swing at our house, but I am wondering what the ecological cost is of all that aluminum foil we're using in place of our regular pots and pans. Sure makes for great clean up, but it is not recyclable as aluminum cans are. Sandra Liebe Paris, Ill. Dearest Sandra, I hate to be the one to point this out, but it's a little rude to say you're barbecuing all the time and not invite me. I'm use ... |
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| Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green living, recycling (all these topics) |
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Textile Messaging
On old clothes |
Umbra Fisk |
05 Jul 2006 |
Ask Umbra |
| Dear Umbra, I promise that I searched the archives before emailing you, so hopefully you haven't already answered this question. I'm wondering about the best way to dispose of old clothes and shoes -- the tired, well-loved, and much-worn items that thrift shops really don't want. I wear my clothes until the bitter end, and then I just don't know what to do with them. Old T-shirts make great rags, but then what? Carrie Doring Seattle, W ... |
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| Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, fashion, green living, recycling (all these topics) |
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A Random Act of Mindfulness
Random House to bump up use of recycled paper |
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18 May 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| A Random Act of Mindfulness Random House to bump up use of recycled paper For you fogies who still read books made of ... what do they call it? ... "paper," here's some good news: Leading U.S. publishing company Random House announced this week that it plans to increase the recycled-paper content of its books to 30 percent by 2010. It's an ambitious goal, as only about 3 percent of paper currently used in ... |
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| Topics: business, green living, news, recycling (all these topics) |
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