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During a recent phone interview about the Lyons Township Recycling Club, club co-sponsor Will Meuer was temporarily distracted by a school P.A. announcement, ironically enough, mentioning the LT Recycling Club. The timely interruption served as proof positive that the burgeoning club is “making news” in its inaugural year at LT.
Read the full story in the Martinsville (VA) Bulletin.
A Patrick Henry Elementary School third-grader proposed a project to recycle paper that has caught on with her classmates.
Read the full story in the Berkshire (MA) Eagle.
In the world of energy consumption, schools and colleges are the guerillas of change: changing light bulbs, supplementing power with solar panels, adding recycling bins, posting real-time power usage on school Web sites, switching to hybrid vehicles and sprouting new ideas for sustainable campus living.
And at some institutions, the efforts have been infused with an interscholastic twist: competition.
The Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation (RBRC), a nonprofit, public service organization dedicated to recycling used rechargeable batteries, today announced the recipients of its seventh annual “Recycling Leadership Awards.” This year’s participants recognized for their exceptional recycling efforts with RBRC’s Call2Recycle(TM) program include: the City of Los Angeles; COGERNO (New Brunswick, Canada); Hennepin County (Minnesota); Montgomery County (Maryland); the City of Austin (Texas); and Marine Corp Base Camp Lejeune (North Carolina).
Academic publisher Taylor & Francis, UK, has announced that it will publish the journal Environmental Technology with effect from Volume 29, 2008. A monthly publication, the journal is seen as a key title in applied environmental research, covering environmental biotechnology, environmental and sanitary engineering, industrial waste management and hazardous waste disposal, air and water pollution control, solid waste management, industrial hygiene and associated technologies.
Read the full story in the Newport News Daily Press.
When you think of polluters, dentists aren’t typically the first thing that comes to mind.
“The amount of waste generated from the dental industry is minuscule. I mean, minuscule,” said Dr. Jennifer Howard, D.D.S. “But everything helps. Anything you can do to make some sort of an impact is always good.”
Howard tried to cut down on pollutants and build an environmentally friendly office when she opened her dental practice, Isle of Wight Family and Cosmetic Dentistry, on Gumwood Drive in Smithfield in 2007.
Read the full story in the Seattle Times.
King County Executive Ron Sims plans to introduce legislation that would allow the county to reject or modify development projects because of their effect on global warming.
Read the full story in the New York Times.
The entire fleet of roughly 10,000 limousines that are used by businesses would be required to meet fuel-efficiency standards, attainable only with hybrid vehicles.
