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No plastic bag ban from Wal-Mart

Much to the relief of the chemical and plastic manufacturing community , the big box retailer giant Wal-Mart opts to reduce, reuse and recycle instead of implementing plastic shopping bag bans. Yesterday, Wal-Mart announced its goal to reduce its global plastic shopping bag waste by an average of 33...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-26-2008
Zero waste in Japan

While working on another article about the Japanese green movement, I came across this interview from BBC News about a small town in Japan called Kamitkatsu, where its mayor implemented a zero waste policy since 2003. There is no garbage collector in this neighborhood and all residents have to compost...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-11-2008
Garbage war in Pennsylvania

Disposing trash must be really getting costlier if a hauler has to sue its municipal garbage authority for landfill discrimination. Lebanon Farms Disposal, a hauler from Schaefferstown, Pennsylvania, was fined in 2003 for violating Lebanon County's disposal regulation by transporting their refuse...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-14-2008

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