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23 Aug 99 - eco-parks; slide wheels; cleaners; packing cushions; green bullets ** WASTE PREVENTION FORUM ** -- A project of the National Waste Prevention Coalition -------- Forum archive: http://www.reuses.com/nwpcarchive ------------------- >From Alex Cuyler, City of Eugene Solid Waste and Recycling Program, Eugene, OR: The City of Eugene is attempting to broach the subject of sustainability with its City Council in September. We are developing a paper for Council but need more information on "eco-industrial parks", specifically those that are geared towards collaboration in the field of waste reduction. Examples we are looking for include businesses that site near each other or within an industrial park to take advantage of their neighbors' waste streams. Please send responses to: alex [ D O T ] d [ D O T ] cuyler [ A T ] ci [ D O T ] eugene [ D O T ] or [ D O T ] us Thanks very much in advance for any knowledge shared. ------------------ >From Jesse White, Resource Management Group, Sarasota, FL, responding to Sally Fisher's 8/20/99 query asking whether anyone has developed an informational slide wheel for alternatives in the yard and garden: You might try Jim Goss at EHMI (Environmental Hazards Management Institute): (603) 868-1496 or (800) 558-3464. This company has many "wheels" available. ----------------- >From Eric Nelson, King County Environmental Purchasing Program, Seattle, WA, responding to Freda Tepfer's 8/20/99 suggestion that local governments could specify "green cleaners" when awarding contracts for dry cleaning for uniforms for police officers, fire departments and other employees: Pursuing the "Green Cleaners" thoughts, I checked around in King County, and no agencies currently maintain dry cleaning contracts. Apparently the police, jail, etc., do this (when they do) by giving the employees an allowance and letting them take care of it themselves. Even when this is the case, recycling coordinators could still furnish agencies with a list of Green Cleaners in the area, and agencies could provide the list to the appropriate employees. E-mail: eric [D O T] nelson [A T] metrokc [D O T] gov -------------------- >From Heidi Siegelbaum, O'Neill and Siegelbaum, Seattle, WA: People may be interested in this website, for air-filled packing cushions that are reusable and made from 100 percent recycled plastic: http://www.airflopac.com/menu.html ------------------- Excerpted from an article by Ed Offley in the 8/23/99 Seattle Post-Intelligencer: The U.S. Army has designed new small-arms ammunition that replaces lead with the inert heavy metal tungsten, and has begun mass production of this so-called "green bullet," according to Jim Arnold, chief of the pollution prevention and environmental technology division of the Army Environmental Center, Aberdeen, MD. Army officials and scientists say the two most likely health hazards from lead-based ammunition occur at indoor rifle ranges, where inadequate ventilation may expose soldiers to minute particles of lead in the air, and at outdoor ranges and impact areas that lie over freshwater aquifers that are the source of drinking water. U.S. Army soldiers fire about 400 million rifle rounds a year in live-fire training, officials say. These bullets contain an estimated total of more than 900 tons of lead. - end -