greenyes-digest"

Blair Pollock (bpollock@town.ci.chapel-hill.nc.us)
Fri, 22 Jan 1999 17:09:59 -0500


>I have found this to be a useful and lively forum.Thought you who don't
have enough reading already would like to know more.

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>GRASSROOTS RECYCLING NETWORK
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>MISSION STATEMENT The Grassroots Recycling Network is dedicated to
>environmental stewardship and achieving a sustainable economy by eliminating
>waste and reusing, recycling and composting resources which will support
>community economic growth, create jobs, save wilderness, reduce pollution and
>conserve natural resources.
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>WHO WE ARE The Grassroots Recycling Network is a coalition of
community-based
>reuse, recycling and composting activists engaged in conserving our human and
>natural resources and giving voice to the conservation ethic that more than
100
>million Americans express daily by recycling.
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>GOALS
>Zero Waste
>Create Jobs Not Waste
>End Corporate Welfare for Waste
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>OBJECTIVES
>? Invest in reduction, reuse, recycling, composting and the manufacture and
>purchase of reused, recycled and composted products.
>? Require manufacturers to design products and packaging for reuse, recycling
>and composting and price them to reflect their full environmental costs.
>? Stop policies and subsidies for wasting resources in landfills and
>incinerators and for mining, harvesting and wasting our natural resources
(such
>as metals, petroleum and timber).
>? Oppose policies and practices that transfer environmental and financial
>liabilities to future generations (such as "dry tomb" landfills).
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>GRN STEERING COMMITTEE
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>Resa Dimino (dimeanor@aol.com) Non-Profit Recyclers Council of the
> National Recycling Coalition; Bronx 2000
>David Kirkpatrick (Dkirkwks@igc.apc.org) Kirkworks
>Brenda Platt (bplatt@igc.apc.org) Institute for Local Self-Reliance
>Neil Seldman (ilsr@igc.apc.org) Institute for Local Self-Reliance
>Rick Anthony (RicAnthony@aol.com) California Resource Recovery Association
>Gary Liss (crra@aol.com) California Resource Recovery Association
>Bill Sheehan (bill.sheehan@sierraclub.org) Sierra Club Zero Waste Task Force
>Lance King Environmental consultant
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