Title: [GreenYes] Re: throw-away society
You should be able to find the answers from watching "The Story of
Stuff" a 20 min 2008 award winning presentation by Anne Leonard, an
expert in international sustainability and environmental health issues
at following link:
http://www.storyofstuff.com/
Nancy
http://greenbeingnancy.blogspot.com
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 8:13 AM, Bill Sheehan <bill@no.address> wrote:
>
> Does this work?:
>
> 1 = Percent of the total North American materials flow that ends up in, and
> is still being used within, products six months after their sale.
>
> Item #4 from the GRRN Zero Waste Briefing Kit, Facts and Figures at
> http://www.grrn.org/zerowaste/kit/briefing/facts1.pdf
>
> Source: Natural Capitalism, p 81
> In Chapter 3, downloadable at http://www.natcap.org/sitepages/pid58.php
>
> /Bill Sheehan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: GreenYes@no.address [mailto:GreenYes@no.address] On Behalf
> Of Helen Spiegelman
> Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 7:39 PM
> To: GreenYes@no.address
> Subject: [GreenYes] throw-away society
>
> Hi all ~
>
> Someone recently threw out a factoid about the products we buy ~ something
> to the effect that X percent of the products we use become waste in less
> than X minutes/hours/days....
>
> Anyone remember seeing this?
>
> Helen.
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> >
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