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greenyes-d Digest Volume 98 : Issue 4

Today's Topics:
[GreenYes Digest] [GreenYes] New York Ci [ "RecycleWorlds" <anderson@msn.fullf ]
[GreenYes Digest] [GreenYes] Paper [ bnordman@dante.lbl.gov (Bruce Nordm ]
[GreenYes Digest] [GreenYes] Yard waste [ John Kerekes <kerekes@erols.com> ]
[GreenYes Digest] [GreenYes] RELEASE: 8t [ "Bill Sheehan" <zerowaste@grrn.org> ]
Re: [GreenYes] Plastic shopping bags [ Infinrecy@aol.com ]
[GreenYes Digest] [GreenYes] Recycling p [ "John Reindl" <reindl@co.dane.wi.us ]
[GreenYes Digest] [GreenYes] Coke and wa [ chelsea center for recycling and ec ]
[GreenYes Digest] [GreenYes] Yard waste [ Bill Carter <WCARTER@tnrcc.state.tx ]
[GreenYes Digest] Re[2]: [GreenYes] Plas [ "Brown, Rebecca" <rebecca.brown@ci. ]

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Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 09:53:51 -0600
From: "RecycleWorlds" <anderson@msn.fullfeed.com>
To: "GreenYes" <greenyes@ucsd.edu>
Subject: [GreenYes Digest] [GreenYes] New York City Garbage
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fyi

Whitman opposes NYC garbage plan
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Gov. Christie Whitman had this to say about New York
City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's new plan to barge thousands of tons of
garbage to New Jersey every day: "Whitman to New York's Garbage Plan: Drop
Dead." Whitman called the plan "an environmental disaster waiting to
happen," but New York City officials said the mayor's plan is
environmentally sound. The proposal, unveiled by the Republican mayor
Wednesday, was not made public to Whitman, also a Republican, until that
morning. The plan is designed to find a future home for the 13,000 tons of
trash dumped each day at a Staten Island landfill. See full story
____________________________________
Peter Anderson
RecycleWorlds Consulting
4513 Vernon Blvd. Ste. 15
Madison, WI 53705-4964
Phone:(608) 231-1100/Fax: (608) 233-0011
E-mail:recycle@msn.fullfeed.com

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Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 16:43:49 -0500
From: bnordman@dante.lbl.gov (Bruce Nordman) (by way of Shay Mitchell
<shay@earthsystems.org>)
To: greenyes@earthsystems.org
Subject: [GreenYes Digest] [GreenYes] Paper
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Do you want to reduce the use of office paper in your organization
but need some further information? If so, try "Cutting Paper" at:

http://eetd.LBL.gov/Paper

The site provides both ideas and practical information about office
paper source reduction. If you have comments or information to
add to the site, please let me know. I also encourage you to
put the URL in any newsletters you publish or contribute to,
or add it to relevant web sites. Thanks!

(and on the plastic bags, I suspect that most of the bags people
dropped off were in good condition for reuse -- that would be
a much better choice environmentally than any recycling).

Bruce Nordman
BNordman@LBL.gov
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
510-486-7089; fax: 510-486-4673

http://www.lbl.gov/~bnordman

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Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 22:09:18 -0500
From: John Kerekes <kerekes@erols.com>
To: Grassroots Recycling Network <greenyes@earthsystems.org>
Subject: [GreenYes Digest] [GreenYes] Yard waste curbside collection programs in
the US
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Would ANYONE please name cities and/or counties in the US providing
curbside pickup of yard waste contained in 30-gallon kraft paper bags?

Many cities/counties have public composting facilities, and pick up
leaves/grass. Kraft bags are my interest, because a fee per bag (using
stickers) is often charged to encourage grasscycycling. Fee and free
pickup is "my bag".

Original request was sent to Greg, but all help would be greatly
appreciated. US EPA has gaps in their data.

Thanks again.

JOHN KEREKES
Germantown, MD
<kerekes@erols.com>

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Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 17:06:05 -0500
From: "Bill Sheehan" <zerowaste@grrn.org>
To: "GreenYes" <greenyes@earthsystems.org>
Subject: [GreenYes Digest] [GreenYes] RELEASE: 8th Anniversary of Coke's Broken
Promise
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[The following news release was issued at a
press conference at the National Press Club
in Washington DC on Dec. 3rd, on the eve of the
eighth anniversary of Coke and Pepsi's broken
promises to use recycled plastic in their
soda bottles.]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contacts: Bill Sheehan (706) 613-7121
Lance King (703) 241-0019

ENVIRONMENT AND RECYCLING LOSE AS
COCA-COLA USES MORE NON-RECYCLED
PLASTIC BOTTLES

"Coke - Take It Back!" Say Groups Demanding
Company Make New Bottles With Recycled Plastic
As Promised

WASHINGTON, D.C. (December 3, 1998) - Coca-
Cola is shifting away from recycled aluminum and
glass to non-recycled plastic, a move which is
depressing recycling rates for plastic soda bottles
according to the GrassRoots Recycling Network.

"Coke's use of non-recycled plastic damages the
environment by wasting billions of bottles that could
be recycled each year and by generating toxic
waste in production of new plastics," Rick Best,
chair of the GrassRoots Recycling Network said
today in a 12:30 news conference at the National
Press Club.

"Some things don't go better with Coke, things like
plastics recycling. Recycling rates for plastic soda
bottles have dropped 3 years in a row from a peak
of 50 percent in 1995 to 36 percent in 1997," Best
said.

The GrassRoots Recycling Network is leading a
national protest campaign called "Coke - Take It
Back!" calling upon Coca-Cola Chairman M.
Douglas Ivester to live up to the 1990 promise to
make new bottles with recycled plastic.

"Consumers are sending Coke a message by
mailing empty bottles back to Coca- Cola," GRRN
Network Coordinator Bill Sheehan said. "All you
have to do is address it to Chairman and CEO M.
Douglas Ivester at One Coca-Cola Plaza, Atlanta,
GA 30313. Just put a mailing label on the bottle
and add a 55 cent stamp on a 20 ounce or 2 liter
bottle. Rinse out the bottle and put the cap back on
before mailing."

The Coke - Take It Back! campaign is growing
rapidly, with support from 81 organizations and
leaders in 26 states. Environmental, consumer,
recycling and student groups launched the
campaign in mid-September and have experienced
a 4 fold increase in endorsements since then.

"Our campaign is about manufacturer
responsibility. Recycling works only if
manufacturers like Coke use the materials
consumers recycle," Larry Bohlen, director of
health and environment for Friends of the Earth in
Washington, DC, said today.

- More - GRRN News Release: Coke - Take It
Back! 12/3/98 Page 2 0f 2

"This is a decentralized, grassroots campaign"
GRRN Campaign Consultant Lance King said.
"More than a dozen protest events were held the
week of November 10 to November 17 in
connection with the second annual America
Recycles Day."

"One local government sparked interest in the mail
back campaign. In San Luis Obispo County,
California, elected officials on the solid waste
authority launched a radio and newspaper ad
campaign almost a year ago calling on consumers
to send back their empty plastic Coke bottles," Rick
Best, policy director for Californians Against Waste
and chair of the GRRN Steering Committee said
today in Sacramento, California.

Coca-Cola sells an estimated 20 million sodas
every day in the United States in plastic bottles. In
a year's time more than 8 billion plastic Coke
bottles made from more than 600 million pounds of
virgin plastic are discarded.

"As quickly as those bottles are tossed away, the
plastics industry extracts more non-renewable
resources and spews more hazardous emissions to
churn out millions of new bottles," Dr. Bill Sheehan,
GRRN Network Coordinator said from the
organization's national headquarters in Athens,
Georgia.

"While certain industries incorporate used plastic
soda bottles into a host of products, 64 percent of
all used soda bottles became waste or litter in 1997
- largely because Coke refuses to 'close the loop'
by taking them back and using them again,"
GRRN's chair Rick Best said.

"Soft drinks packaged in plastic, particularly in the
recently introduced 20 ounce bottles, are adding to
the waste stream 10 times faster than the growth in
recycling of soda bottles. We're targeting Coke as
the industry leader with 44 percent of the market,"
King said.

"Cost-effective technologies approved by the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration are available to
Coke. It would cost about one tenth of one penny to
use 25 percent recycled plastic in a 20 ounce
bottle, according to one industry source," King said.

"The next time you say the words 'Coca-Cola', just
remember that in the one second it takes to say
those words 200 plastic Coke bottles were dumped
in a landfill somewhere in the United states - 200
every second, 700,000 every hour, more than 20
million a day, more than 6 billion last year alone -
all at taxpayers expense," Container Recycling
Institute Executive Director Pat Franklin said.

Coca-Cola uses recycled plastic in Coke bottles
sold in a number of other countries, where
government mandates require it. If Coke refuses to
take the "buy recycled" pledged voluntarily, then
calls for government to adopt legislation will grow
according to GRRN.

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Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 07:36:57 EST
From: Infinrecy@aol.com
To: greenyes@earthsystems.org
Subject: Re: [GreenYes] Plastic shopping bags
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Hi all,

Obviously, if we're striving for ZeroWaste, reuseable bags is the answer. I
wish more stores would reward people for doing it, at least by charging for
the use of the store's bags.

Ford

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Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 08:47:28 -0600
From: "John Reindl" <reindl@co.dane.wi.us>
To: recycle@envirolink.org, GreenYes@earthsystems.org
Subject: [GreenYes Digest] [GreenYes] Recycling position in Wisconsin
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Winnebago County, Wisconsin (the Oshkosh area) is seeking a person
as a recycling specialist. Paying approximately $27,000 a year
(negotiable), this position provides technical and administrative
assistance to the recycling manage, local communities and
businesses. Winnebago County has a mandatory recycling program and
operates its own MRF.

For more information about this position, including a detailed job
description, contact Jim Pennau, Winnebago Recycling Manager, at
(920)232-1850.

reindl@co.dane.wi.us
(608)267-1533 - fax
(608)267-8815 - phone

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Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 09:51:56 -0500
From: chelsea center for recycling and economic development
<amyp@chelseacenter.org>
To: greenyes@earthsystems.org
Subject: [GreenYes Digest] [GreenYes] Coke and water
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I read recently that coke coming out with a line of spring water-- also
presumably in PET plastic bottles.

Amy Perlmutter
Executive Director
Chelsea Center for Recycling and
Economic Development
180 Second Street
Chelsea, MA 02150
617-887-2300/fax 617-887-0399
visit our web site at www.chelseacenter.org

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Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 09:13:53 -0600
From: Bill Carter <WCARTER@tnrcc.state.tx.us>
To: greenyes@earthsystems.org, kerekes@erols.com
Subject: [GreenYes Digest] [GreenYes] Yard waste curbside collection programs in
the US
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Texas has an extensive annual survey of cities regarding recycling and
composting activities, but we do not ask them to specify kraft vs. other
kinds of bags they accept. I suspect we are typical of other states. I
don't know of any national survey that would have an adequate
response rate to give you a complete list of city composting programs
that are kraft bag users.

Your most direct route to the data you seek might be to canvass the
manufacturers of kraft lawn/leaf bags and ask them for references to
the cities that have contracted for bulk purchases.

Bill Carter, Program Specialist
Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission
Recycling Section, Office of Pollution Prevention & Recycling
MC114 P.O. Box 13087, Austin, TX 78711-3087 USA
(512) 239-6771

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Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 08:44:00 -0800
From: "Brown, Rebecca" <rebecca.brown@ci.woodland.ca.us>
To: Infinrecy@aol.com, "greenyes" <greenyes@earthsystems.org>,
"multiple recipients of" <greenyes@earthsystems.org>
Subject: [GreenYes Digest] Re[2]: [GreenYes] Plastic shopping bags
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Hi Ford,

All stores do charge for the use of their bags - we just don't see that added
as
a separate line item on our receipts. And unfortunately, they don't advertise
the fact that using our own bags will get us a nickel/bag back.

Rebecca Brown
Woodland,CA

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Subject: Re: [GreenYes] Plastic shopping bags
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Date: 12/7/98 4:36 AM

From: Infinrecy@aol.com
Date: Mon, Dec 7, 1998 4:36 AM
Subject: Re: [GreenYes] Plastic shopping bags
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Hi all,

Obviously, if we're striving for ZeroWaste, reuseable bags is the answer. I
wish more stores would reward people for doing it, at least by charging for
the use of the store's bags.

Ford

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