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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)

Starbucks tokens	David Roberts	17 Nov 2004	Gristmill

Topics: business, recycling, waste (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

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)

Export Retort On exporting our recycling	Umbra Fisk	09 Mar 2004	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, While we were cleaning out a family member's house, a neighbor stopped by to see what we were up to. I mentioned that we were tossing "real trash" into the large dumpster and compiling recyclable materials for a trip to the recycling center or metal scrap yard. We don't know this person well, but without him knowing our political persuasion, he stated that recycling is just another segment of the "liber ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green living, recycling (all these topics)

Doubt of the Benefit On the benefits of recycling	Umbra Fisk	09 Mar 2004	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, Some time ago, the public radio program This American Life, hosted by Ira Glass, was about recycling. Glass reported, "Experts agree that we have plenty of landfill space for the foreseeable future." He proposed that recycling therefore did little more than make us feel good. The hapless person he interviewed came up with no better response to that than, "Well, what's wrong with feeling good?&q ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green living, recycling, solid waste treatment and disposal, waste (all these topics)

For What Shall It Profit a Man... On recycling profitability	Umbra Fisk	09 Mar 2004	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, My friend has the notion that recycling programs lose money. Where does this come from? I can imagine situations where that could be the case, but in most cities there seems to be plenty of material being recycled to justify the collection infrastructure, etc. And surely there are markets for more recycled content than we currently produce. Why does the myth persist that recycling doesn't make sens ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green living, recycling (all these topics)

Recyclopedia The Skinny on Recycling		09 Mar 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: green living, recycling (all these topics)

Home Green Home Green Home-Building Rising in Popularity		03 Mar 2004	Daily Grist
Home Green Home Green Home-Building Rising in Popularity Eco-minded builders and environmental groups in the U.S. are pushing to simplify and popularize the notion of "green building," which encompasses practices and materials that reduce waste and make homes more efficient. Green building -- ranging from landscaping with native plants to using carpet made of recycled soda bottles to recycling cast-off construction materia ...
Topics: green living, recycling (all these topics)

Burn Me Up, Scotty Super-Hot Trash Zapper May Yield Hydrogen		27 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Burn Me Up, Scotty Super-Hot Trash Zapper May Yield Hydrogen This just in: The future is now. "Plasma torch technology" is gaining acceptance among corporations and governments, and may soon show up at a waste facility near you. Here's how it works: Trash -- anything from municipal garbage to toxic waste to PCBs -- is zapped (at least we think that's the technical term) with a ...
Topics: green living, recycling, solid waste treatment and disposal, toxics (all these topics)

Chips and Peanuts On packaging peanuts	Umbra Fisk	25 Feb 2004	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I was wondering whether you could provide me with advice about packaging materials. You see, I was recently married and my wife and I now find ourselves buried under packaging peanuts, Styrofoam, and other such materials, much as we tried to avoid the fate (of receiving loads of store-bought gifts, that is, not of being hitched). What do you suggest we do with boxes and boxes of this post-nuptial detritus? Chip Giller G ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green living, recycling (all these topics)

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