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01 Feb 02 - tips; AOL; cloth towels; office furniture; Earth Day; deconstruction; P2 ** WASTE PREVENTION FORUM ** -- A project of the National Waste Prevention Coalition -------- Forum archive: http://www.reuses.com/nwpcarchive -------------------- From Polagaya Fine, Snohomish County Solid Waste Division, Everett, WA: We badly need to redo our Waste Prevention Tips brochure. Does anyone have any samples of this kind of brochure you could send me? Thanks. Mailing address: Polagaya Fine, Senior Planner, Snohomish County Solid Waste Division, 2930 Wetmore Ave., Suite 101, Everett, WA, 98201 E-mail: polagaya [ DOT ] fine [ AT ] co [ DOT ] snohomish [ DOT ] wa [ DOT ] us Phone: 425-388-6492 -------------------- From Rick Hlavka, Green Solutions, South Prairie, WA: I just received the latest promotional CD from America Online (AOL), and they are now sending out the CD in a metal case. It reminds me of an Altoids tin on steroids, except that it's thin (about 3/8 of an inch thick). Is this what people have been talking about or is this new? The CD is just rattling around loose inside of it, along with a few slips of paper containing pertinent information. I guess there might be some interesting reuse options for the case, and if nothing else the case and the enclosed paper are more universally recyclable, but it still seems like a significant investment in materials and energy for the latest version of AOL (which I could just download if I was so inclined). I'm tempted to suggest that we should set up a collection program for these things, on the theory that there is a good use for them that we will figure out later, except that smacks of tire piles. I can see it now, people begin to discover large piles of AOL CD cases in rural areas, and the piles continue to grow. E-mail: RickHlavka (A T) aol (D O T) com -------------------- From Blair Pollock, Orange County Solid Waste Management Department, Chapel Hill, NC, responding to the recent postings about hand dryers vs. paper towels: Is there any discussion of the industrial cloth drying towel as an alternative here? We have them in our restroom at the office and they are well-accepted by all. Further, our local botanical garden at the University of North Carolina has incorporated the paper towels from their restrooms into their on-site composting with no apparent problems (that's almost always the only thing in their restroom waste cans). E-mail: bpollock [ AT ] co [ DOT ] orange [ DOT ] nc [ DOT ] us -------------------- Excerpted from the January, 2002, U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) electronic newsletter (forwarded by Theresa Koppang): The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that businesses discard 3 million tons of office furniture each year. New USGBC member Revest Northeast, the re-manufacturing arm of Steelcase, reclaims and re-manufactures abandoned and out-dated Steelcase furniture, diverting it from trash heaps and landfills. Revest negotiates for old furniture and re-manufactures fully-warranted furniture to meet changing office needs, at a fraction of the usual price. Revest, located in Manchester, CT, is also ready to provide documentation for how re-manufactured furniture helps meet LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification (Materials and Resources and Indoor Environmental Quality credits). Note: For more information on Revest Northeast, see their website at: http://www.revestne.com -------------------- Link to information on Earth Day activities and events, on the Earth Day Network website (forwarded by Marcia Rutan): http://www.earthday.net Earth Day is Monday, April 22, 2002. ------------------- Link to information on a free one-day conference, "Rebuilding Communities Through Deconstruction Enterprises," sponsored by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, to be held March 11, 2002, in Hartford, CT: http://www.ilsr.org/recycling/announcement.html ------------------- Link to information on the National Pollution Prevention (P2) Roundtable's Spring conference, to be held April 2-5, 2002, in Portland, OR (forwarded by Patrick Domres): http://www.p2.org/events - end -