Huffington Post:
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Confronted with an ever-growing pile of old newspapers, Taiwanese fashion designer Colin Lin came up with the idea of using them to make shoes and tote bags for her environmentally friendly footwear company.Lin, 50, says they are now hot items in Taiwan as well as markets from the United States to Europe, f (Read More)
New York Times:
A southeast Texas industrial disposal facility has suspended its plan to import and incinerate up to 20,000 tons of hazardous waste from Mexico, a company official said. The company, Veolia Environmental Services, dropped its request to the Environmental Protection Agency for a permit to import polychlorinated byphenyls fro (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - Maryland:
The Upper Marlboro man whose body was found at a Laurel recycling facility Tuesday was homeless and sleeping in a dumpster when he was picked up and compacted by a cardboard recycling truck, authorities said Thursday.
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washingtonpost.com - Metro:
The Upper Marlboro man whose body was found at a Laurel recycling facility Tuesday was homeless and sleeping in a dumpster when he was picked up and compacted by a cardboard recycling truck, authorities said Thursday.
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MSNBC.com: Stocks & economy:
If you want to win the stimulus sweepstakes, it helps to have one of the planet's nastiest toxic waste sites in your back yard.
Environment - Recycling - Business - Waste management - Waste. (Read More)
New York Times:
The start-up company makes board cores that are 60 percent to 65 percent recycled waste, reducing the production of a material.
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Wall Street Journal:
China Metal Recycling has asked its auditor to review its earnings after its former chief financial officer alleged he was denied proper access to the firm's financial information and subsequently resigned. (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
WASHINGTON — A solid majority of Americans recognize the need to help the environment, although there are some things – like buying a hybrid car or taking mass transit – that people often talk about, but don't necessarily act on.That's shown in a survey of more than 1,000 adults that sought to gauge attitudes about the envi (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - Maryland:
An Upper Marlboro man was found dead in the compactor at a recycling facility in the Laurel area Tuesday, and police are remaining mum on why and how he got there.
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National Review Online:
I will echo what Andy McCarthy and others have been saying on this site: The Obama administration’s decision to give Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other 9/11 plotters a civilian trial in New York is both alarming and depressing. We sometimes speak of “the 9/10 mentality”: and this is a perfect expression of that mentality. Geo (Read More)
Huffington Post:
NEW YORK (Associated Press) - Jeremiah Miller calls the time Barack Obama spent in New York "the lost years," because that period from 1981 to 1985 is not as well-known as his roots in Hawaii or his recent years in Chicago. To fill in the gap, Miller offers a tour of Upper Manhattan called "Obama's New York."The two-hour $2 (Read More)