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...there's money in trash, entrepreneurs will find it. And in many instances they have. Processors are turning a profit by recycling high-value steel and aluminum cans and, in general, paper cartons and cardboard. A Shearson Lehman analysis concludes that recycling is now attracting "the attention of the solid waste industry investor." In two areas in particular, innovative ideas are cropping...
Critics of recycling in the U.S. claim that it weakens the economy, but Germany, one of the world's strongest economies, is showing that isn't necessarily so. Since last December, manufacturers and retail stores in Germany have been required to take back such transport packing materials as cardboard boxes and Styrofoam. This spring the requirement was extended to "secondary packaging" such as cardboard boxes for toothpaste or deodorants. By next year, consumers will be able to return sales packaging -- from yogurt cups to meat wrappers -- to the point of purchase for disposal. In mid-1995 German manufacturers will...
George, 27 sits on the stoop of the Porcellian Club in Harvard Square with a hand-lettered cardboard sign. "Out of work," it says...
...liberated from a neighboring apartment and balanced atop heavy rusting water pipes in the tiny Moscow abode that he has called home since last December. The room has no electricity and no running water. A dented tin bread box and several empty jars serve as his kitchen, while a cardboard box doubles as chair and closet. The decor is Dickensian: bare, paint-chipped walls, splintering floorboards and windows caked with dirt. Apartments in the old Soviet Union were none too luxurious, but this is a big step down...
...soaring $75 million Alamillo Bridge, part of $10 billion invested in the fair and new transportation facilities, is an inspired architectural monument. But to those who live in El Vacie's shacks, cubist contraptions of plywood and cardboard, it is an affront. After years of delay, the government only last week began to install 36 flimsy prefabricated homes -- far short of the number needed to house the barrio's 100 families, who live without toilets or running water and cook on open fires. "The rats are eating us!" complains Alvarina Roza Jimenez, mother of eight, holding up her daughter...