Unplugged: Canada should follow Europe's lead on e-waste.
EXTENDED producer responsibility requires producers--not taxpayers or the government--to safely manage their products from the cradle to the grave (or from cradle to cradle). Because it allows product waste to be managed separately from the municipal waste stream, extended producer responsibility (EPR) saves municipal and taxpayer dollars. ...

Luntiang Pilipinas Movement: Eight years of re-greening the country.
"GREEN Philippines Highway" was successfully launched a few weeks ago. In one day, more than half-a-million saplings of trees were planted by our people from Northern Luzon to Mindanao. It has a laudable goal - to re-green the Philippines and make it lush with trees and vegetation. ...

RP makes significant progress in achieving the millennium development goals.
WHEN leaders and officials from close to 200 countries met for the Millennium Summit four years ago, they pledged to pursue a global poverty-fighting agenda embodied in a set of eight Millennium Development Goals (MDG) to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger by 2015, to make education available to all...

Law.
Where a Court of Equity, State Law, and Zoning Decisions Talk Past Each Other in Michigan. G. M. Ross, 10561 36th SE, Lowell, MI 49331 By statute the final decision in a zoning question rests with the zoning Board of Appeals of a local government. Beyond lies...

The importance of recycling computers: an update on electronics toxicity. (EH Update).
Desktop computers are built with materials that contain toxic chemicals and are regarded as hazardous waste. Color monitors routinely fail toxicity characteristic leachate procedure (TCLP) tests, and testing in progress for other electronics indicates that CPUs, servers, and cell phones are unlikely to pass TCLP tests. Under...

Flying clean: airline recycling is a hit-and-miss proposition. (Currents).
Call it a fly-by-night operation. A flight attendant zips down the aisle, grabs an empty soda can from an airline passenger, mumbles any old answer when asked if it will be recycled, and stuffs the can in a trash bag. There's really no way of knowing if the soda...

Los Angeles Mayor. (Brief).
Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn has taken steps to block the expansion of the Sunshine Canyon Landfill in Granada Hills. Hahn directed the city's Environmental Affairs Department not to forward Browning Ferris Industries' (BFI) application for landfill expansion to the California Integrated Waste Management Board, even though the application...

Challenging the EPA fertilizer rule. (Safe Food and Fertilizer).
Most consumers would never even stop to wonder what's in their fertilizer. Why should they? Fertilizer is benign, right? Wrong. Industrial waste from steel mills, mines, foundries, aluminum manufacturers, tire incinerators, coal-fired power plants, and film processing plants often makes it way into commercial fertilizers under the auspices of...

Environmental crime and pollution: wasteful reflections (1).
The history of men is reflected in the history of sewers.... Crime, intelligence, social protest, freedom of conscience, thought, theft, all that human laws prosecuted or have prosecuted was hidden in this pit. -- Victor Hugo, Les Miserables Introduction IN THE 1970s, A NEW MENACE...

What is pollution prevention?
BACKGROUND Reducing the amount of waste (air, water, solid and hazardous) produced at the source is the only permanent and practical solution to the myriad of problems caused by environmental pollutants. Additionally, pollution prevention and designing for the environment makes economic sense; today's generators are tomorrow's potentially responsible parties...