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Paper Promises		14 May 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: business, green living, placemaking, 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)

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)

A Catalog of Ills		14 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
A Catalog of Ills Of the 17 billion catalogs mailed every year to American consumers (that's 59 catalogs for each and every one of us!), a surprising few contain recycled materials. An Environmental Defense survey released yesterday found that only six of 42 major catalog companies are using significant amounts of recycled paper, and most don't use any. Nary a sing ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, Environmental Defense Fund, green living, recycling (all these topics)

Staples Gunned		13 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Staples Gunned In a milestone victory for trees and forest advocates, the office-supply giant Staples announced yesterday that it would phase out paper goods made from threatened forests and increase the average amount of recycled material in its paper products to 30 percent, up from the current average of less than 10 percent. No timetable has been se ...
Topics: California, commercial and industry organizations, green living, Massachusetts, recycling, wilderness (all these topics)

Time for a Change		12 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Time for a Change No need to throw the dirty diapers out with the bathwater! Santa Clarita, Calif., a suburb of Los Angeles, is the first municipality in the United States to institute a diaper-recycling program, which will transform the soiled, disposable sacks of goodies into oil filters, roof shingles, and vinyl siding. Some 20 billion diapers are buried in U.S. landfills per year ...
Topics: California, green living, recycling, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

No Screen Savior		01 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
No Screen Savior California Gov. Gray Davis (D) vetoed legislation yesterday that would have created a program to recycle electronic products and keep their hazardous components out of landfills. The high-tech industry strongly opposed the legislation, which would have levied a $10 recycling fee per new computer or television sold. Environmentalists, who say the veto reflects the political clout of Silicon Va ...
Topics: California, green living, politics, recycling (all these topics)

Beer Goggles		19 Jul 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: green living, recycling (all these topics)

Re-tired		17 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Re-tired In other news about trash, the U.S. is making significant strides in the reuse and recycling of rubber tires. Last year, Americans got rid of about 281 million tires -- some 5.7 million tons worth. In 1990, just one out of every 10 discarded tires was reused; now, that number has risen to nearly eight in 10. Some are burned to generate electricity; some are mixed with asphalt to pave roads; some are made int ...
Topics: green living, recycling, United States (all these topics)

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