WIRED TO WASTE REDUCTION
		RepairClinic.com sells a wide range of appliance parts and offers a well-designed site containing much information about maintenance, recalls, and fault codes. Jim McKenna, 33, and John Lieberman, 31, a couple of San Francisco-area techies, launched the “NoMoreAOLCDs.com” grassroots campaign to “stop the needless pollution of the environment due to the distribution of unwanted materials.” Their mission: Collect a million of the promotional CDs that America Online (AOL) regularly mails to consumers, and deposit them at the doorstep of AOL Time Warner headquarters. (Knight Ridder News Service article by Allison Kaplan) The Community Waste Prevention Toolkit is a new, interactive, online resource, designed to help users implement cost-effective waste reduction programs. The toolkit was developed by INFORM (New York) and is available at www.informinc.org. (Resource Recycling, January 2002)
		Are you interested in detailed waste prevention information for any of these business sectors? –apartment/condominium complexes –hospitals –construction and demolition –hotels –manufacturers –offices –printers –restaurants –retail stores Tom Watson's National Waste Prevention Forum points us to a very useful Web site that includes comprehensive information on waste prevention and recycling strategies, waste composition graphs for the different business sectors, a “Trends to Watch” section and links to other websites — first seen in Roger Guttentag's "Recycling in Cyberspace" column in Resource Recycling magazine, Wastesaver.com is a privately-owned online service based in New York City that links businesses with recycling and garbage haulers.     return to links page copyright© 2001-2008 BRING Recycling. All rights reserved.