WasteCap
of Lincoln’s Recycling E-Newsletter
December
2002
Happy
Holidays from WasteCap Staff! In
the spirit of the holidays, we have compiled articles about the
holidays, everything from where to shop for
“environmentally friendly” presents, to the answers to the
everlasting real vs. fake Christmas tree debates.
Mark
your calendars!
WasteCap of Lincoln has already announced several of its events
for next year – for listing of topics and dates, check out this
month’s newsletter! Check
out our website at www.wastecaplnk.org
for an updated member list as well as an easy-to-use version of the
recently published A Guidebook of Local & Regional
Environmental Service Providers.
Included are direct links to commodity-specific research and
local service providers. What’s
New for December 2002:(Click
on a headline below to jump to the topic and use your browser's BACK
button to return to this index)
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2002
WasteCap Member Summary ¨
New
“User Friendly” Web Version of Service Provider Guidebook ¨
CP
Recovery MOU Available for WasteCap Members ¨
Upcoming
Events for WasteCap of Lincoln ¨
Free
E-Newsletters Available from Recycling Today Magazine ¨
Retrofit
Recycling Pick-Up Dates ¨
Live
vs. Fake Christmas Trees: Environmental
Impacts ¨
Holiday
Shopping at “Green Businesses” ¨
Disposable
DVDs and Video Cameras Hit Market ¨
Guide
to a Low-Waste Holiday Season New
Member Profiles
WasteCap
of Lincoln is pleased to announce that our membership is growing and now
includes some of the service providers that our current members are
using. We are happy to
welcome them into our membership. 2002
WasteCap Member Summary
With the establishment of a new, three-tired membership structure to better serve our members, this year has been an exciting one for WasteCap of Lincoln. Since this E-newsletter is the first since May to not have a new member to highlight, we decided to provide an overview of all the new members we have received this year to date. Opening up our membership to service providers and vendor recruitment for the P2 Training & Vendor Show helped boost our membership numbers this year. In 2002, WasteCap added the following 12 members: · CP Recovery · Electronic Recyclers · Environmental Compliance Enterprises · Firstar Fiber · Gabilan Manufacturing · Li-Cor, Inc. · Lincoln Plating · Midland Recycling · Recycling Enterprises · Retrofit Recycling · Roberts Recycling · Shred All Thanks again to all of the businesses who have continued to support WasteCap of Lincoln. We look forward to working with all of you in 2003 – thank you for the successful year!
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Reminder
that INFORM Members using Midland Recycling are paid $20 under the
reported price for loose cardboard (OCC) and $5 under the reported price
for baled cardboard in bales weighing over 1,000 pounds.
Material abbreviations:
OCC-
Old Corrugated Cardboard
SOP–
Sorted Office Paper
Purchasing
a live Christmas tree can raise concerns about cutting a beautiful,
living tree. However,
cutting the tree actually helps fulfill its destiny.
Dennis
Adams, extension forester, says that most live Christmas trees are grown
and cultured in plantations with the specific purpose of harvest at a
certain size or age. It
takes an average of seven years to grow a six to seven foot pine
Christmas tree. When these
trees are harvested, most growers replant with seedlings the following
spring to begin the cycle again.
The
replanting of Christmas trees makes them renewable resources.
When a live Christmas tree is bought, a renewable resource is
used rather than depleting the unrenewable resources used in
manufacturing artificial Christmas trees.
Live
Christmas trees also are beneficial because they help clean the air,
control soil erosion and provide habitat for wildlife while they are
growing. Live Christmas
trees also may be a way of arousing an appreciation of the beauty and
usefulness of trees in the minds of children.
A keen appreciation of trees is an important step toward the will
to plant and care for them.
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Reprinted with permission of the University of Nebraska Cooperative
Extension in the Lancaster County The Nebline
In
the world of marketing and finance it’s often called “green
business.” It refers to
an ever-growing trend of marketing environmentally friendly products to
consumers. Often these
businesses are small, home-based, and rely primarily on the Internet for
their customers. They cater
to an enlightened consume increasingly concerned about finite resources,
pollution, and landfill disposal issues.
The
environmentally friendly products offered by these businesses include
organically grown items or items produced and packaged using recycled
products. The following
websites provide hundreds of links to green businesses.
You can find everything from hemp dog collars and organic crib
sheets to more practical items like recycled paper and environmentally
safe detergents. So point
and click you way into some guilt free holiday shopping today….
Sure,
everyone has heard of, and has appreciated using, disposable diapers,
razors, pens, etc. But have
you heard about the latest addition to America’s “Disposable
Society”? Now available
on the markets are disposable cell phones, also known as “talk and
toss” mobiles and one-time use DVDs and video cameras.
Learn more about how our spending habits are following a “buy,
use, discard” mentality, rather than the “reduce, reuse, recycle”
mantra of the environmental movement.
For
the complete story, click here:
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/disposable021204.html
According
to 1997 data, 5 million extra tons of trash is produced between
Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day in the US each year.
Last year, Bill McKibben’s book “Hundred Dollar Holiday”
became a big hit: proposing that we spend less money, create less waste,
and instead spend more time, enjoying a simpler, more relaxed holiday.
If this idea appeals to you, these websites may be of interest as
you start thinking about the upcoming holidays.
For
the complete story, click here:
http://www.newdream.org/holiday/mckibbenchat.html
- Transcript of Chat with Bill McKibben
http://www.buynothingchristmas.org/index.html
- Buy Nothing Christmas