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05 Dec 01 - bottle bills; job; charities; e-cards; gifts; health care purchasing ** WASTE PREVENTION FORUM ** -- A project of the National Waste Prevention Coalition -------- Forum archive: http://www.reuses.com/nwpcarchive -------------------- Link to information on beverage container deposit systems, or "bottle bills," in nine European countries, from the website of the Container Recycling Institute, Arlington, VA: http://www.bottlebill.org/Worldwide/Worldwide.htm All nine of the deposit systems that are described - in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland - encourage the use of refillable bottles. This website also gives the percentage of market share for refillable bottles in each of these countries. -------------------- Link to a job listing for executive director for Protected Harvest, a new non-profit organization: http://www.protectedharvest.org/career.htm Protected Harvest works to reduce the levels of toxic pesticides in food production, primarily through a certification system for produce. -------------------- Link to articles that rank various charities, written by Reshma Memon Yaqub, in the December, 2001, Worth Magazine (forwarded by Susan Salterberg): http://www.worth.com/content_articles/articles.cfm?id=4872 Three charities that are active in the reuse field are listed among the best human services charities: Goodwill, Habitat for Humanity, and America's Second Harvest. -------------------- Excerpted from an article by Winda Benedetti in the 12/4/01 Seattle Post-Intelligencer: ELECTRONIC GREETING CARDS Although electronic greeting cards, or e-cards, have become increasingly popular in recent years, the paper greeting card business is still huge. Hallmark alone sells 3 billion paper greeting cards annually in the United States. For those who want to conserve resources by sending e-cards, there is an increasing number of options, including: - http://www.e-cards.com - http://www.care2.com/send/categories - http://free.bluemountain.com (only the ones on the left are free) - http://www.beatgreets.com/ --------------------- Link to a web page for Alternative Gifts International, a non-profit based in Lucerne Valley, CA, which offers humanitarian alternatives to traditional gift-giving (forwarded by Frances Ambrose and Marcia Rutan): http://www.altgifts.org/contents.htm --------------------- Link to the website for the Health Care Environmental Purchasing Tool, a joint project of several agencies and organizations in the Midwest U.S. (first seen in Jim Schrock's "Delete This Newsletter"): http://www.ahrmm.org/HCEPT/ This website was developed through a grant from the Great Lakes Protection Fund. The objective of the project was to develop a means of reducing the amounts of mercury and dioxin in the Great Lakes. - end -