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America Recycles Day - ACTION ALERT
End Welfare for Wasting MEDIA OPPORTUNITY
Nov 98 San Diego Earth Times now online
Send it Back Campaign
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Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 08:20:46 -0800 (PST)
From: Pat Franklin <cri@igc.org>
Subject: America Recycles Day - ACTION ALERT
SORRY FOR CROSS POSTINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Are you appalled that the America Recycles Day
website (americarecyclesday.org) is sponsored by
and linked to The National Soft Drink Association
website, where Coke's trade association attempts to
discredit the most successful recycling program in
the nation -- beverage container deposit systems?
If you are, then take these two actions:
1. Sign on to the letter below to ARD executive
committee members (who should know better).
Email me at cri@igc.org with your title, organization
and contact information.
2. Email those same ARD executive committee
members directly:
- US Environmental Protection Agency (sponsor)
Ms. Fran McPoland, Federal Environmental
Executive:
mcpoland.fran@epamail.epa.gov
- Environmental Defense Fund (exec comm)
Dr. Richard Denison, Senior Scientist:
richard@edf.org
- National Recycling Coalition (exec comm)
Mr. Will Ferretti, Executive Director:
willf@nrc-recycle.org
SIGN-ON LETTER:
We, the undersigned, join the Container Recycling
Institute in strongly objecting to linking the America
Recycles Day (ARD) website to The National Soft
Drink Association's (NSDA) website. We call on
the executive committee and organizers of America
Recycles Day to take immediate action to
disconnect the link to NSDA's website.
NSDA is the trade association for the two largest
users of rigid plastic containers in the nation,
neither of which uses recycled content in the
estimated 15 billion PET soda bottles they sell each
year. It is ludicrous that they would be sponsoring
the America Recycles Day website when the theme
of ARD is 'buy recycled' and the message to the
public is "If you're not buying recycled, you're not
really recycling." Coke and Pepsi are not giving
their customers the opportunity to buy recycled
PET bottles.
What is even more ludicrous is the fact that the
NSDA site discredits one of the most successful
recycling infrastructures in existence today --
beverage container deposit systems. And they are
doing it, it would seem, with the blessing of
The Office of the Federal Environmental Executive,
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, The
Environmental Defense Fund, The National Recycling
Coalition and everyone else who directly or
indirectly supports America Recycles Day.
The deposit/return system for beverage containers,
has proven to be an extremely effective waste
reduction, reuse and recycling measure. Without it,
the recycling rates for aluminum, glass, and PET
beverage containers would be far below the current
rates. And if NSDA is successful in its aggressive
attempts to repeal existing deposit laws, we will find
out just how far down the rates can go.
The misinformation, distorted statistics and outright
lies about beverage container recycling in general and
beverage container deposit systems in particular are
inappropriately linked to the America Recycles Day
website. Again, we strongly request that you take
action to ensure that the link to The National Soft
Drink Association's website is disconnected.
Sincerely,
[Your name and organization]
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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/
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: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 23:38:13 -0500
From: "Bill Sheehan" <zerowaste@grrn.org>
Subject: End Welfare for Wasting MEDIA OPPORTUNITY
Want to do something to end welfare for waste? Time Magazine
last week ran a dynamite special story on corporate welfare. Seems
they missed forest subsidies, but it is a major story nonetheless,
and a major opportunity to spur public discussion. Be good to let
Time know that virgin materials are fundamentally in competition
with used materials, and that subsidies for the former undermine
recycling -- both community programs and tens of thousands of
small recycling and reuse businesses. Please share your letter with
this list. Thanks in advance!
The GrassRoots Recycling Network's report, End Welfare for Waste,
is back on the production line. We will be in touch again regarding
the release (in the new year).
--Bill Sheehan
The alert below comes from the Zero Cut campaign.
===== A message from the 'nocutnews' discussion list =====
Friends,
A GREAT MEDIA OPPORTUNITY!!
In the recent issue of TIME is a feature, "What Corporate Welfare Costs You"
It is mostly well written, but fails to mention the corporate welfare
associated with logging our national forests.
If we could get 15-20 letters into TIME, I'm sure they would print a few.
Please take 10 minutes and write a short letter to TIME praising them for
their corporate welfare coverage but reminding them of the worst of all
corporate welfare--the federal logging program on national forests.
My letter is below for reference. Please let me know when you send TIME
your letter. LET'S NOT LET THIS PASS US BY!!!!!
Send Letters to:
email: letters@time.com
Mail: Time Magazine Letters
Time and Life Building
Rockefeller Center
New York, NY 10020
fax: 212-522-8949
(Include Full name, Address and Home Phone number)
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Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 10:32:06 -0800
From: Carolyn Chase <cdchase@znet.com>
Subject: Nov 98 San Diego Earth Times now online
In This Issue
Election '98
Ballot Box Realities by Carolyn Chase
How did environmental endorsements fare
at the ballot box? It could have been worse.
Victory for the environment in key national races - League of
Consevation Voters
Polling data shows that the environment
rates as a top issue in targeted races.
Activism
New book profiles "ordinary" environmental crusaders
What transforms ordinary citizens - farmers and
housewives, teachers and soccer moms - into environmental
crusaders?
Rolex recognizes scientist for seahorse conservation work
Canadian researcher enables local fishermen in the central
Philippines to conserve seahorse population and to develop
alternative means of livelihood.
National Issues
Zero cut policy: what if it really happened?
A reader takes a look at forest management practices
and proposes a middle ground to help make the U.S. Forest
Service more sustainable
Global Ecology
A more practical way to save tigers
A new range-wide plan for conserving tigers in the wild.
CMC blasts WTO sea turtle decision
World Trade Organization rules against U.S. law that
requires the banning of shrimp imports from countries
whose fishing fleets do not use turtle excluder devices
on their shrimp nets.
Another pesticide surprise
Investigations into worldwide frog population deformities
and declines uncovers new pesticide toxin hazards.
Rapid population growth is still a problem
A population expert sorts through statistics and demographic
peculiarities to clarify population concerns.
In Your Garden
Put those perennials to bed for the winter
A little care now will ensure spring blooms.
Professor working on natural pesticides
Two natural compounds from flax and cassava plants
kill several common and costly insect pests.
Diet & Health
Natural vitamin E supplements could save millions in U.S. health costs
Simple vitamin supplement offers major reduction in
nonfatal heart attacks.
Meditation found to help chronic pain sufferers
Energy
Researchers develop clean-burning synthetic diesel fuel
New twist on an old process to convert natural gas to diesel
fuel promises economy and reduced emissions.
Observations from the Edge
Basking in the afterglow
Out resident eco-radical reviews the election outcome.
San Diego EarthWorks
Wanted: Earth Day 1999/2000 logo/design
Carolyn Chase, Editor, San Diego Earth Times, http://www.sdearthtimes.com
Please visit ;-)
Tel: (619)272-7423 (SDET)
FAX: (619)272-2933
email: cdchase@znet.com
P.O. Box 9827 / San Diego CA 92169
"Our ignorance is not so vast as
our failure to use what we know."
M.K. Hubbert
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Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 15:52:36 -0800
From: "Bill Worrell" <bworrell@iwma.com>
Subject: Send it Back Campaign
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Thanks for all the work that you and the grassroots recycling network =
have put into the Coke take it back campaign. The San Luis Obispo =
County Integrated Waste Management Authority will be conducting an =
advertising blitz on November 15 to encourage our residents to send =
their plastic Coke bottles back to Coke.=20
With this latest series of advertising we will have come a full circle =
in that we started the campaign last year on America Recycles Day. =
During our second year we will be encouraging our citizens to send their =
Coke bottles not to Coke but back to our elected officials. =20
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