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09 Apr 01 - Dana Meadows memorials; zero waste; junk mail; electronics; Earth Day ** WASTE PREVENTION FORUM ** -- A project of the National Waste Prevention Coalition -------- Forum archive: http://www.reuses.com/nwpcarchive -------------------- Links to information on Earth Day weekend memorials planned for Dana Meadows, a leader in the sustainability and simplicity movements, who died on Feb. 20 (forwarded by Marcia Rutan): San Francisco memorial, Saturday, April 21: http://www.simpleliving.net/DanaMeadowsSFMemorial/ Memorials in Washington, D.C., Cambridge, MA, and Hanover, NH, all on Sunday, April 22: http://www.simpleliving.net/DanaMeadowsSFMemorial/memorials.asp -------------------- Link to the on-line Zero Waste Community Activity Kit, from the Grassroots Recycling Network and Eco-Cycle, a non-profit recycling organization based in Boulder, CO (first seen in the Association of Oregon Recyclers newsletter): http://www.grrn.org/zerowaste/kit/event/zw_kit.html The kit includes public service announcements, model local government resolutions, contests, promotional materials and more. -------------------- The next two items are in response to the 4/5/01 posting about the new U.S. federal law requiring financial companies to send their customers an "opt-out" form by July 1, 2001. Sending in this form can reduce unwanted mail. -------------------- From Brian McVay, Eugene, OR: With regards to junk mail reduction, I recently heard a story of a U.S. postal worker, on their day off and while attending a recycling presentation, express how utilizing the Direct Marketing Association's "Do Not Mail" list diminishes the U.S. Postal Service's income, because junk mail is such a big portion of it. I need to hear stories like this to put things into perspective. With all due respect to the internal waste reduction efforts of the Postal Service, I say, give them Saturday off, I'm going to opt out wherever possible. E-mail: bmcvay [ AT ] worldnet [ DOT ] att [ DOT ] net -------------------- Link to a fact sheet from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) on the new opt-out law: http://www.fdic.gov/consumers/consumer/news/cnwin0001/NewRights.html -------------------- Link to a 4/8/01 article by Tom Long in the Detroit News on junk mail: http://detnews.com/2001/homelife/0104/08/a01-209223.htm This article describes how five Detroit-area households were asked to save their junk mail during the month of March, to see how much they received. Six pounds of unwanted mail per household was the overall average for the five households. One family accumulated nine pounds of unwanted mail. -------------------- Link to information on the fourth Electronics Product Recovery and Recycling (EPR2) Conference and Electronics Recycling Summit, April 17-20, 2001, in Arlington, VA (from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's WasteWise listserv): http://www.nsc.org/ehc/epr2/flyer.htm For conference details, including the list of speakers, click on "Registration Brochure" for the complete conference flyer, in Adobe Acrobat Personal Document Format. -------------------- Link to the Earth Day Network website, with information on Earth Day (April 22, 2001) events around the world: http://www.earthday.net - end -