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16 Apr 01 - fish totes; hospitals; MERGE software; job; pay-as-you-throw; environmental listings ** WASTE PREVENTION FORUM ** -- A project of the National Waste Prevention Coalition -------- Forum archive: http://www.reuses.com/nwpcarchive -------------------- From Heidi Siegelbaum, O'Neill and Siegelbaum, Seattle, WA: Does anyone have information on fish transport packaging? I'm interested in reusable fish totes for deliveries. If anyone has any leads on this, please let me know. Thanks very much. E-mail: wastenot [ A T ] speakeasy [ D O T ] org -------------------- Link to the website for Sustainable Hospitals, a project of the Lowell Center for Sustainable Production at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell: http://www.sustainablehospitals.org This website includes detailed listings of where to find environmentally preferable products for hospitals, and a great variety of other useful information. -------------------- Link to the website for MERGE, the Alliance for Environmental Innovation's software tool for environmental product and packaging design: http://www.environmentaldefense.org/Alliance/Merge/merge.htm MERGE stands for "Managing Environmental Resources Guidance and Evaluation." -------------------- Link to a job posting, from the Center for Ecological Technology, for a manager for their new non-profit store in Springfield, Massachusetts, selling used home improvement materials (forwarded by Steve Long): http://www.cetonline.org/AboutCET/jobopenings.htm#RESTORE -------------------- Link to a new report, from the Cornell University Waste Management Institute, on "pay-as-you-throw" volume-based garbage collection rate systems for large municipalities: http://www.cfe.cornell.edu/wmi/PAYTreport.pdf The report is in Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format. -------------------- Link to "For My World," a new website from Environmental Defense and the National Wildlife Federation, which provides localized recycling and reuse listings, and other localized environmental information (first seen in Jim DiPeso's Pacific Northwest Pollution Prevention Resource Center bulletin): http://www.formyworld.com To check out the localized information, just enter your zip code. The recycling and reuse listings are from the "Earth's 911" program. - end -