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31 Aug 00 - videos; publishers; carpet; printing companies; tires ** WASTE PREVENTION FORUM ** -- A project of the National Waste Prevention Coalition -------- Forum archive: http://www.reuses.com/nwpcarchive -------------------- Excerpted from message from John Sutherlin, Urban Waste Management & Research Center, University of New Orleans, and from information on the center's website: The University of New Orleans' Urban Waste Management & Research Center is offering, for a fee, its 8-part video series on solid waste management called, "Our Urban Environment: The Solid Waste Video Series." This series features issues such as recycling, composting and waste minimization. It includes interviews with state regulators, waste haulers, public and elected officials, waste experts and private citizens from across Louisiana. The series was funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and has been used by cities throughout the U.S., as well as by environmental organizations and universities. Also, more than 10 foreign states have adopted the series for outreach and education. Videos can be purchased individually or as an entire set. The subject of one of the videos is "Business Waste Reduction." For more information, visit this website, where you can also watch a small portion of the series: http://www.uno.edu/~engr/civil/uwmrc/video.html If you have questions, you can also call (504) 280-6189 or send e-mail to: uwmrc ( AT ) uno ( DOT ) edu ------------------- >From Julie Rhodes, Reuse Development Organization, Indianapolis, IN, responding to the 8/28/00 posting from Carol Tanzi, seeking ideas for publishers to send a book proposal on reuse: An obvious choice is Nikki & David Goldbeck's company, Ceres Press, P.O. Box 87, Dept. CTRB, Woodstock, NY, 12498. Phone/fax: 914/679-5573. They have published "Choose to Reuse," "Clean & Green," and "The Smart Kitchen," among others. Another possible idea is Redleaf Press, 450 North Syndicate, Suite 5, St. Paul, MN, 55104-4125. Phone: 800/423-8309. Marketing Manager: Dan Verdick. They published "Learn and Play the Recycle Way, Homemade Toys That Teach," by Rhonda Redleaf and Audrey Robertson. Lastly, Interface's Ray C. Anderson's book, "Toward a Sustainable Enterprise: The Interface Model - Mid-Course Correction," was published by Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 205 Gates-Briggs Building, P.O. Box 428, White River Junction, VT, 05001. Phone: 800/639-4099. Paul Hawken's "Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability" is published by Harper/Collins, HarperBusiness, so it's probably not the best fit. Good luck. E-mail: jlrhodes (AT) in (DOT) net ------------------ Excerpted from an 8/7/00 message from Tom Eggert, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR), Madison, WI (forwarded from other listservs by Scot Case and Kinley Deller): Interest in carpet reuse and recycling has been growing throughout the country. A small group of state agencies - Wisconsin DNR, Minnesota Office of Environmental Assistance (OEA) and Iowa Department of Natural Resources - has been meeting with representatives from the carpet industry to explore alternatives to landfilling used and scrap carpet. This effort has led to a preliminary recommendation for the carpet industry to look into creating a non-profit or for-profit entity that would be responsible for creating the necessary incentives to divert an agreed-upon percentage of carpet from the waste stream. This agreed-upon percentage would gradually increase over time. The legal entity responsible for this program could be patterned after the private company that was created in Germany to take back all packaging materials (the green dot program) or the Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation in this country. The carpet industry has not yet committed to this idea. It would appear that state governments would need to create proper incentives to make the proposal more desirable. We are just starting to explore what those incentives might look like. The states (with the support and backing of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency) are interested in soliciting interest from other states who might be interested in participating in (or learning more about) this effort. Please reply to: - Garth Hickle, Minnesota OEA, at: garth (D O T) hickle (A T) moea (D O T) state (D O T) mn (D O T) us - John Leigh, U.S. EPA, at: Leigh [ D O T ] John [ A T ] epamail [ D O T ] epa [ D O T ] gov - or Tom Eggert, Wisconsin DNR, at: eggert [ A T ] dnr [ D O T ] state [ D O T ] wi [ D O T ] us Thanks. ------------------- Link to the web page for the Great Printers Project in Minnesota (referred by Julia Wolfe): http://www.pimn.org/env_great.htm The objective of this project is "to make pollution prevention and waste reduction a standard practice at printing companies." ------------------ Excerpted from an article by Keith Bradsher in the 8/27/00 New York Times: About 270 million tires are scrapped each year in the United States. A typical tire on a family vehicle has the energy content of seven gallons of oil, partly because of the extensive use these days of synthetic rubber, an oil-based substance. Of the 270 million scrapped each year, about 114 million tires are mixed with coal and used as fuel, according to the Scrap Tire Management Council, a tire industry group. The big recall of Firestone tires this year is expected to total 6.5 million tires. - end -