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(Fwd) Business Week: Tyvek Insert- 12/22/97 Issue. (2 msgs)
A Caution to Entrepreneurs
Fwd: Remanufacturing Symposium in February
New Milk Bottles
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--- Loop-Detect: GreenYes:98/10 ----------------------------------------------------------------------Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 11:21:42 -0600 From: "John Reindl" <reindl@co.dane.wi.us> Subject: (Fwd) Business Week: Tyvek Insert- 12/22/97 Issue.
Dear List Members -
I thought you might like to see this letter from Business Week about=20 the Tyvek that was in their magazine.
I am seeing a lot of positive come out of this situation. The=20 companies have expressed a lot of regret and have a new sensitivity=20 to avoid putting contaminating material into magazines and=20 newspapers.
I would welcome anyone's comments or suggestions on either the Tyvek=20 situation or how we can work with industry so that potential=20 contamination problems are minimized.
Thanks much!
John Reindl, Recycling Manager Dane County, WI
------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 11:44:48 -0500 From: mtalluto@businessweek.com (Mario Talluto) Subject: Business Week: Tyvek Insert- 12/22/97 Issue. To: reindl@co.dane.wi.us Cc: ghopkins@businessweek.com (Gary Hopkins)
=20 Dear Mr. Reindl: =20 We too are concerned with the recycling issue. To our knowledge, the=20 Tyvek should be removed prior to recycling. We had not thought it=20 would be too great an inconvenience to the subscriber to simply tear=20 out the Tyvek material before recycling, but your letter has prompted= =20 us to focus on, and be more sensitive to, this issue. I hope this is=20 helpful. Your input has certainly been of use to us. =20 Cordially, =20 =20 Mario J. Talluto Business Week- Director, Production =20
reindl@co.dane.wi.us (608)267-1533 - fax (608)267-8815 - phone
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Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 21:21:20 EST From: Jango <Jango@aol.com> Subject: (Fwd) Business Week: Tyvek Insert- 12/22/97 Issue.
John Reindl enclosed text from a response to him from Business Week.
Good job on this John! Interesting response too (you probably wouldn't=20 get this from Forbes I bet...). Seems like the main peoploe who should be=20 taking the lead on educating the publishing and direct marketing=20 industries should be AF&PA and ISRI's Paper Stock Institute.=20
Thanks John.
> =20 > Dear Mr. Reindl: > =20 > We too are concerned with the recycling issue. To our knowledge, the= =20 > Tyvek should be removed prior to recycling. We had not thought it=20 > would be too great an inconvenience to the subscriber to simply tear= =20 > out the Tyvek material before recycling, but your letter has prompted= =20 > us to focus on, and be more sensitive to, this issue. I hope this is= =20 > helpful. Your input has certainly been of use to us. > =20 > Cordially, > =20 > =20 > Mario J. Talluto > Business Week- Director, Production
David Biddle Philadelphia, PA 215-247-2974 (voice and fax)
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Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 10:03:09 -0600 From: "RecycleWorlds" <anderson@msn.fullfeed.com> Subject: A Caution to Entrepreneurs
The 1/14/98 Wall Street Journal has a front page article, "Loosing Faith: Personnel Disorders Sap a Factory Owner of His Early Idealism." It documents tostory of Alan Robbins, an Akron, Ohio, well-intentioned entrepreneur, who set up a plastic lumber factory to convert recycled milk jugs into park benches in the seedy downtown to do good while making money. According to this story, he started out with a very employee friendly, employer supportive, shop, and was the subject of so much abuse by employees he retrenched to as rigid, hierarchal plant as the most insensitive employee.
It reads very much like the story of Earth Care Paper, a recycled card maker, that was very successful and employee democratic, and ultimately, to avoid bankrupcy, was sold for its mailing list.
I'd recommend the article not to discourage a search for new forms of management, but rather to educate future entrepreneurs who want to do better by their employees that simple good intentions are not sufficient. Indeed, these two examples seem to suggest that just good intentions inevitably lead to disillusionment and, if the business survives, to just as hidebound management as the most uncaring employer.
I wonder if anyone has any solid ideas to offer in this vein? ____________________________________ 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: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 16:39:02 EST From: CRRA <CRRA@aol.com> Subject: Fwd: Remanufacturing Symposium in February
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The First Remanufacturing Industries Symposium: Uncovering a Hidden Green Giant will be held February 23, 1998 in Washington, DC. I encourage= interested parties to see more program and registration details at www.remanufacturing.org.
For those who don't know, remanufacturing is a form of recycling which often results in less waste than recycling (See Waste Wise Update, May 1997). Remanufacturing has also been sited as a solution to sustainable development by the President's Council for Sustainable Development.
Those interested in learning more about remanufacturing should contact: Scott D. Parker, President Remanufacturing Industries Council International 703-968-2772 E-Mail - ricimail@aol.com
I hope to see you in February.
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Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 14:19:43 -0600 From: "RecycleWorlds" <anderson@msn.fullfeed.com> Subject: New Milk Bottles
Dean Foods continues to roll out new packaging innovations intended to break into the refreshment single drink beverage market. I just saw in the supermarket a six pack of half pint chocolate milk in a "Chug" bottles (white pigmented plastic with full body brown shrink wrap made of PVC) bundled together with shrink wrap. Price: $2.79. The price of the old fashioned half pint gabled paperboard chocolate milk: 39 cents per container, or $2.34 for six. That is to say, the spiffier package for a single serving adds 8 cents per bottle. I would estimate that the fancier packaging adds 4-6 cents per container, and hence 2-4 cents per half pint serving in additional profit. More important, I can't help but imagine, is the greater sales volumes if the product does take market share among youth from the soda market by leading with the sweetened (chocolate) version of its product.
____________________________________ 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: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 20:53:30 -0300 From: "Gabriel Eduardo =3D?iso-8859-1?Q?Sor=3DE1?=3D"= <dpabche@bariloche.com.ar> Subject: WASTE:=20
Hello, i=B4m writting from Bariloche, Argentine We=B4re interested about waste from "chemical bathrroom" (ba=F1os qu=EDmicos= ) of motorhome and buses. Questions about waste=B4s quality and typical treatment, specially in protected areas and rural land.
thanks
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Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 20:55:04 -0300 From: "Gabriel Eduardo =3D?iso-8859-1?Q?Sor=3DE1?=3D"= <dpabche@bariloche.com.ar> Subject: WASTE: chemical bath
I=B4m interested about waste from chemical bath, and its treatment Thanks
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