In the planet habit; Young people advise being thoughtful about purchases, packaging and recycling.
Byline: Jean Laquidara Hill Marketing gurus trying to entice Nicole M. Sauber of Millbury into buying merchandise will fail miserably, regardless of the item, if they package it in non-recyclable material. The 17-year-old high school senior is looking ahead to when she and her peers...

Paper firm into P100-M expansion.
Byline: Bernie Cahiles-Magkilat Filipino-owned Golden Swan Paper Products Corp. is investing P100 million for the production of test linerboard and corrugating medium using 100 percent local scrap/waste papers. The Board of Investments has approved this labor-intensive project, which falls under R.A. 9003 otherwise known as...

Slobbie Ozzie does detox!
A 20-step programme to help you Kick your global-warming, energy-guzzling habit. Anyone can do it! Even him! Around half of C[O.sub.2] emissions -- the main green house gas -- come from energy use in homes and from personal transport. So what you do can make a big...

Organize your samples--and your reps.
Everybody, it seems, thinks they have too many samples, but you really don't. What you have is too much packaging. If you doubt this, take a good look at the next set of samples that comes into your office. Each unit will probably consist of a big...

A profusion of plastic: most everyone agrees that reducing the amount of plastic we throw away is a good idea.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Against a rising tide of beverage bottles and food containers, state lawmakers, manufacturers, suppliers and trade organizations are coming up with new ways to increase recycling and reduce the amount of plastic packaging used in their states. Americans spent $15 billion on 8...

Recycling & reusing: the act of making a molehill out of a mountain.
Recycling & Reusing The Act of Making a Molehill Out of a Mountain Americans produce 160 million tons of solid waste every year - more than four pounds per person each day. Where does all that trash come from? And where will it all go? ...

Theory versus children.
The Literacy Wars, by Ilana Snyder; Allen & Unwin, 2008, $32.95. Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of human speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and the Bible ... --G.B. Shaw,...

Coty takes home five FiFi Awards: the fragrance industry came out in full force to honor its own last month at the 36th Annual FiFi Awards.
DAISY MARC JACOBS from Coty Prestige won the fragrance of the year in the women's luxe category at the 36th Annual FiFi Awards, which were held May 20 at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City. More than 900 industry executives attended the event, sponsored by...

Mushroom Council partners with Weight Watchers.
The Mushroom Council will partner with Weight Watchers, the world's leading weight management partner, as the official Pick of the Season sponsor from July through September 2008. The Council's Pick of the Season program is designed to support the Treasure Health, Treasure Mushrooms marketing platform by highlighting Weight Watchers'...

Where does one begin to save the Earth? `Here' is a good place.
Byline: GOING GREEN By Susan Palmer The Register-Guard I am wrecking the planet. And so are you, probably. Listen, I have good intentions. I want to recycle every last soup can and dead battery in my possession, drive less and walk more, use my kitchen scraps to...