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Plastics Recycling - PET Handles
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Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 19:08:31 +1100
From: "Jennifer Kent" <jennykent@bigpond.com>
Subject: 'Green cleaning'
I am working on a project to promote the use of less toxic/ hazardous
materials in the home. Has anyone been involved in a dedicated education/
communication program on green cleaning. Most of the materials I have seen
are ad-ons to existing waste avoidance/ waste minimisation campaigns. I
would really appreciate any contacts/ leads.
Thanks
Jenny Kent
Mob: 0417 455 644
E-mail: jennykent@bigpond.com.au
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Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 18:13:05 EST
From: BEgger1883@aol.com
Subject: address change
I would like to unsusbcribe from one email address to another - please drop my
address at ncegger@ucdavis.edu, and please add my address ncegger@aol.com.
Thank you! - Nicole Egger
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Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 15:24:10 -0800 (PST)
From: Pat Franklin <cri@igc.org>
Subject: coke bottles
Donna,
YES INDEED the "Coke Take It Back" initiative applies to you!!!!!!! Even
though 85 percent or more of Maine's plastic soda bottles (like those in
other bottle bill states) are recycled into carpets, clothing and other new
products, they ARE NOT made into new bottles.
Thanks for asking,
Pat Franklin
Exec Dir
CRI
At 03:51 PM 11/16/98 -0500, Marcus, Donna wrote:
>I live in Maine and recycle all of my bottles. Does the "Coke Take It Back"
>initiative apply to me?
>
>
Pat Franklin, Executive Director
Container Recycling Institute
1911 Ft Myer Drive, Ste 900
Arlington, VA 22209
tel: 703/276-9800 fax: 276-9587 email: cri@igc.org
on the web at www.igc.apc.org/cri/
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Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 14:23:38 -0600
From: "RecycleWorlds" <anderson@msn.fullfeed.com>
Subject: European Plastics Conference
According to 11/16/98 Plastics News (p. 8), "Recycling Meeting Set for
Belgium"
"Organizations representing Europe's plastics processors and recyclers
plan to air issues surrounding recycling regulation and technologies at a
conference scheduled for December in Brussels.
" ...
"For registration information, contact Julie Chaminade at EuPC in
Brussels at .. eupc.julie@skynet.be."
____________________________________
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: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 15:23:20 EST
From: JudiGregry@aol.com
Subject: Fwd: Bay Area Groups Join 'Coke Take It Back! Campaign:...
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Bay Area Groups Join 'Coke Take It Back! Campaign: National Consumer Protest
Targets Waste From Plastic Coke Bottles
Coca-Cola Chairman M. Douglas Ivester Challenged to 'Buy Recycled'
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- A growing national alliance
including 81 environmental, consumer, recycling and student organizations and
leaders is challenging Coca-Cola Chairman M. Douglas Ivester to make new
plastic Coke bottles with recycled plastic. Endorsements of the "Coke -- Take
It Back!" consumer protest will be announced at news conference this morning
in San Francisco and this afternoon in Oakland.
"Coke's plastic bottles are a symbol of wasteful packaging. Coca-Cola
sells an estimate 20 million sodas every day in the United States in plastic
bottle, without using any recycled plastic," Rick Best, policy director for
the Sacramento-based Californians Against Waste and chair of the national
steering committee of the GrassRoots Recycling Network.
WHAT: News conferences announcing endorsements and consumer protest.
Bay area and northern California groups endorsing "Coke -- Take It
Back!" are:
Group City Type & Scope
Earth Island Institute San Francisco National environmental
Californians Against Waste Sacramento Statewide environmental
lobby
Berkeley Ecology Center Berkeley Regional environmental
Ecology Action, Inc. Santa Cruz Local environmental
Urban Ore, Inc. Richmond Total recycling business
Garbage Reincarnation Santa Rosa Recycling
Total Recycling Association Oakland Recycling
Plactory Santa Cruz Plastics Recycling business
Northern Cal. Recycling Assoc.Berkeley Professional/recycling
CRRA Sacramento Statewide recycling assoc.
Zero Waste Institute Watsonville Non-profit policy group
WHEN & San Francisco - 9:30 AM at 5th & Bryant, beneath Coke billboard
WHERE:
Oakland - 12:30 PM at 7901 Oakport, in front of Coke's
northern California headquarters & bottling plant
PROTEST: Consumers are being asked to mail empty plastic Coke bottles to
Coca-Cola Chairman M. Douglas Ivester as a protest, with the
simple message "take it back and use it again!" Events are
planned across the nation November 10 to November 15 as a prelude
to America Recycles Day, Sunday, November 15.
WHY: Coke broke its 1990 promise to use recycled plastic to make new
soda bottles sold in the United States. In 1997, Coke sold more
than 8 million sodas in the United States in plastic bottles made
from 600 million pounds of new, so-called virgin resin.
Coke is being targeted because it is the industry leader with 44 percent
of the market share and has a enormous influence on whether the soft drink
industry reduces its plastic packaging waste.
"Coke's waste prompted the San Luis Obispo County waste management
authority to start a radio and newspaper advertising campaign a year ago,
calling on consumers to mail back their empty plastic bottles to Coca-Cola's
Ivester," Bill Sheehan, GRRN's national network coordinator said from the
organization's headquarters in Athens, Georgia.
"We believe this simple, direct action sends a powerful message that
manufacturer's must take responsibility for their own product and packaging
waste and launched this campaign in September 1998," Sheehan said.
Coke -- Take It Back! is a project of the non-profit GrassRoots Recycling
Network, which advocates policies and practices to achieve zero waste, end
corporate welfare for waste and create sustainable jobs.
SOURCE GrassRoots Recycling Network
CO: Coca-Cola; GrassRoots Recycling Network
ST: Georgia, California
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Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 15:16:24 EST
From: JudiGregry@aol.com
Subject: Fwd: Beyond.com Celebrates 'America Recycles Day'; Electronic...
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over the wires for America Recycles Day and the Coke "Take It Back Campaign"
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Beyond.com Celebrates 'America Recycles Day'; Electronic Software Distribution
Provides Clean, Green Fuel for Computer Users
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 13, 1998--What will those wacky,
green Californians think of next?
Employees of leading Internet software reseller Beyond.com(tm)
(Nasdaq:BYND) will gather at 11 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 13, for a 60-second, all-
employee raucous cheer in honor of customers who buy software electronically,
using 100 percent recycled electrons.
The roaring customer tribute is in observation of California Celebrates
America Recycles Day, a state-wide tribute to recycling scheduled for Sunday,
Nov. 15.
"In the past four years, Beyond.com customers have electronically
downloaded enough software to create a cardboard tower of software packaging
121,641 feet high, or four times the height of Mount Everest," said John
Pettitt, chief technology officer and environmentalist-in-residence at
Beyond.com. Mount Everest stands 29,028 feet tall or approximately five miles
high.
By downloading more than 800,000 software products over the Internet,
Beyond.com customers have saved the equivalent of 23 million floppy disks.
"With two-thirds of the American population now actively pro-environment,
electronic software distribution provides a clean, green fuel for computer
users into the next millennium," Pettitt said.
Beyond.com (http://www.beyond.com) has enabled customers to
electronically download software since November of 1994, often for lower cost
than boxed software titles.
Reducing and recycling waste has become standard practice for many
Americans, and their employers, since the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970.
Californians alone recycled 17 million tons of commercial and residential
solid waste in 1997, up from 8.5 million tons in 1990, according to the
Integrated Waste Management Board, a Sacramento-based government agency that
oversees waste in California.
Downloading software over the Internet straight to their personal
computers is one more way Americans can reduce the amount of waste they create
and discard.
"Downloading software electronically is extremely popular with the U.S.
government, which continues to be a leader in electronic software
distribution," said Pettitt. "While the U.S. government accounts for about 25
percent of our business, nearly all of that software is delivered
electronically, which is great news for the environment." In the third quarter
of 1998, approximately 25 percent of Beyond.com's corporate and consumer sales
were ESD.
A 1998 study by Wirthlin Worldwide, an international public opinion
organization, found that "two-thirds of Americans consider themselves actively
pro-environment ... while only 4 percent were found to be 'unsympathetic' to
environmental concerns."
About Beyond.com
Beyond.com is a leading, online reseller of commercial, off-the-shelf
software to the government enterprise, corporate and consumer markets,
offering its customers a better way to buy software. Visitors to the company's
online store (http://www.beyond.com) enjoy a comprehensive selection of
software backed by customer service and competitive pricing. Approximately
30,000 software stock-keeping units (SKUs) are available for online purchase
with more than 3,300 SKUs available for immediate, electronic delivery,
including software from such major publishers as Adobe, Lotus, Microsoft, Sun
Microsystems and Symantec. The company has established strategic marketing
alliances with America Online, Inc., Excite, Inc. and Netscape Communications
Corporation. Beyond.com is incorporated in Delaware as software.net
Corporation. Software.net Corporation has applied for federal registration of
the marks BEYOND.COM and SOFTWARE.NET. Beyond.com trades on the Nasdaq under
the symbol ("BYND").
To the extent that this news release discusses expectations about
software.net (Beyond.com's) ESD business in the third quarter of 1998 and
beyond, or plans to grow the business through ESD, these statements are
forward-looking within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of
1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended, and are subject to substantial risks and uncertainties. Actual
results for the fourth quarter of 1998 and subsequent quarters could differ
materially from any future performance suggested above. Among the factors that
could affect subsequent periods include: Reductions in or cancellations of
customer orders, changes in relationships with software suppliers, changes in
relationships with strategic partners, changes in the product mix sold by the
company, competition from other online software resellers or publishers and
other factors described in the company's prospectus dated June 17, 1998, as
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC").
CONTACT:
Beyond.com
Lise Olson, 408/616-4256 (PR)
Laura Dayton, 408/616-4328 (IR)
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Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 15:12:22 -0600
From: "RecycleWorlds" <anderson@msn.fullfeed.com>
Subject: Plastics Recycling - PET Handles
According to the November 1998 issue of Plastics News, "PET bottle with
integral handle goes commercial" --
"A 2 liter 79-g bottle of cooking oil hitting store shelves in New
Zealand is said to be the first commercial application of a PET bottle with
an integral handle. The bottle is molded at Carter Holt Harvey Plastic
Products, Hamilton NZ, and filled by the customer, Liquimaid Products Ltd.,
in Wellington."
This new technique (integral handles) that uses normal PET in current
injection stretch PET molds is of importance to design for recyclability
principles because previous molding of handled PET bottles required the use
of a PET variant, PETG (for glycol), which, while not a contaminant in
minor proportions limited, e.g., to few >gallon size PET bottles, would be
a major headache if adopted for 2 liter soda bottles which are ubiquitous
in the PET stream. (NOTE: Coke suggested last spring that it was
considering adding handles to its 2 liter soft drink bottles to pump up
sales.)
____________________________________
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: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 19:05:04 +1100
From: "Jennifer Kent" <jennykent@bigpond.com>
Subject: Recycling in high-rise/ multifamily dwellings
I am working on a project looking at recycling systems & strategies for
high rise and other multi-family dwellings. There is a bit in the
literature but I would love to hear of any recent projects that might
assist me in my research.
Thanks in advance
Jenny Kent
Mob: 0417 455 644
E-mail: jennykent@bigpond.com.au
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Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 18:19:12 -0600
From: "John Reindl" <reindl@co.dane.wi.us>
Subject: Self Adhesive postage stamps
Does anyone have any information on how many self-adhesive postage
stamps are sold per year by the US Postal Service?
Thanks,
John Reindl, Recycling Manager
Dane County, WI
reindl@co.dane.wi.us
(608)267-1533 - fax
(608)267-8815 - phone
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Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 18:41:59 -0800
From: "Frederick P. Bradford" <avpower@hooked.net>
Subject: Self Adhesive postage stamps
John Reindl wrote:
>
> Does anyone have any information on how many self-adhesive postage
> stamps are sold per year by the US Postal Service?
>
>
I don't understand the purpose of the question. (Nor do I know the answer.)
I like them. I use them. I'm sure that's not P.C.
But as a stamp collector, I hate them because I can not "soak" them in water to
remove cancelled stamps from envelope.
Anyone know how to remove the stamps without destroying them??
-Fred Bradford
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Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 18:41:59 -0800
From: "Frederick P. Bradford" <avpower@hooked.net>
Subject: Self Adhesive postage stamps
John Reindl wrote:
>
> Does anyone have any information on how many self-adhesive postage
> stamps are sold per year by the US Postal Service?
>
>
I don't understand the purpose of the question. (Nor do I know the answer.)
I like them. I use them. I'm sure that's not P.C.
But as a stamp collector, I hate them because I can not "soak" them in water to
remove cancelled stamps from envelope.
Anyone know how to remove the stamps without destroying them??
-Fred Bradford
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