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24 Apr 03 - catering; exchange; junk mail; phone books; building codes; pesticides ** WASTE PREVENTION FORUM ** -- A project of the National Waste Prevention Coalition -------- Forum archive: http://www.reuses.com/nwpcarchive -------------------- From Beth Shuck, City of Portland Business Assistance Program, Portland, OR: SEEKING INFORMATION ON SUSTAINABLE CATERERS I work with the City of Portland on their Business Assistance Program, which provides businesses with recycling and waste reduction assistance. Currently, we are working with large office environments and have discovered that these businesses have a lot of waste generated through catered events. We are developing a resource for these business which would include a list of sustainable caterers in the region (i.e., they use local ingredients, reusable serving platters, etc). We would also like to include verbiage for businesses to use when contacting caterers that would reduce the amount of waste generated. (For example, verbiage would include asking whether the caterer can put sandwiches on a tray rather than individual boxes.) I am wondering if anyone out there has developed a resource of this sort or has ideas for things to include as a piece of the resource. Thanks! E-mail: bethshuck [ A T ] yahoo [ D O T ] com Phone: (503) 725-8456 -------------------- Link to Craigslist, free online classified listings in 23 cities (forwarded by Susan Fife-Ferris): http://www.craigslist.org This free, community-oriented, privately-operated (started by a guy named Craig in San Francisco in 1995) service has become a very popular way for people to give away and sell things in major cities. For example, in the listings for Los Angeles recently, there were 4,803 listings in the General for Sale category and 1,769 listings in the Barter/Swap/Free category. In Boston there were 3,986 listings under General for Sale. The opening page shows the listings for the San Francisco Bay area. On the right you can click on the listings for the other cities: Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Dallas/Fort Worth, Denver, Detroit, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis/St. Paul, New York, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, Sacramento, San Diego, Seattle/Tacoma, Toronto, Vancouver, Washington. -------------------- Excerpted from a message from Glenn Krocheski-Meyer, Minnesota Office of Environmental Assistance, St. Paul, MN: ADDRESSES FOR THE DIRECT MARKETING ASSOCIATION'S PREFERENCE SERVICES I know this gets revisited often, but the news isn't catching on everywhere. I'm focusing on the cards mailed directly, since that's the address given out by people like us, and the DMA's online registration is still too confusing to explain, given the $5 optional electronic fee. Here are the current addresses (4/24/03) for the Preference Services of the Direct Marketing Association, to get off some mailing lists, telephone solicitation lists and mass e-mail lists: - Mail Preference Service. PO Box 643, Carmel, NY, 10512. Print full name, full address, and sign. Your address will be kept on file for 5 years. - Telephone Preference Service. PO Box 1559, Carmel, NY, 10512. Print full name, full address, telephone number, and sign. Your address will be kept on file for 5 years. - E-Mail Preference Service. Online only: http://www.e-mps.org Enter up to 3 names. Your e-mail address will be kept on file for 2 years. These addresses are also given in a DMA recorded phone message, at (212) 768-7277 (press 2). Glenn's e-mail: Glenn [D O T] Meyer [A T] state [D O T] mn [D O T] us -------------------- Excerpted from a message from Paul Dunn, City of Omaha Public Works Department, Environmental Quality Division, Omaha, NE: Citizens who are mad about unwanted phone books being dropped off at their homes should contact their state public service commission that regulates the phone companies (but not the independent directory companies). E-mail: pdunn [ AT ] ci [ DOT ] omaha [ DOT ] ne [ DOT ] us -------------------- Link to a 2002 report, "Breaking Down the Barriers: Challenges and Solutions to Code Approval of Green Building" (forwarded by Katie Spataro): http://www.dcat.net/about_dcat/current/Breaking_Down_Barriers.pdf This report, from the Development Center for Appropriate Technology in Tucson, Arizona, was written by David Eisenberg, Robert Done and Loretta Ishida. -------------------- Link to information on "Pesticide Free Zone" signs for yards, a new program of the Washington (state) Toxics Coalition (forwarded by Gerty Coville): http://www.watoxics.org/pages/root.aspx?fromCamMenu=True&pos=0|3 -------------------- Note from Tom: For some odd reason, some of you received two copies of the last edition of the Waste Prevention Forum. Sorry about that! I'm not sure why that happened, but I'm just hoping it was some quirky computer thing and it doesn't happen again. If it does, I'll try to figure out what's going on. - end -