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This month the Greenpeace environmental group and Britain's Cooperative Bank created the world's first biodegradable credit card. Made of a naturally occurring plastic, the card takes only a few weeks to disintegrate in ordinary compost. Trade-named Biopol, the plastic is extracted from a microorganism. Monsanto, which makes Biopol, is developing ways of inserting the microorganism's metabolic process into plants through biotechnology...
...perfectly respectable garden can be had virtually for free. The price is paid in muscle and devotion, applied to a few packages of seeds, some cuttings from a neighbor, a pile of compost distilled from last fall's leaves. To the purists, paying someone extravagant sums to install an instant garden is like hiring someone to have great...
...statement that "Nobody has any use for old orange rinds and apple cores" shows complete ignorance of a recycling alternative known as "composting." Rapidly biodegrading materials such as food and leaves can be put in a compost pile which uses a self heating process to turn this otherwise "garbage" into fertile soil...
...quipped that "Baker can't walk on water, but he knows where the rocks are." A highly organized and disciplined manager, Baker is expected to quickly shape up the White House and campaign staffs, which have piled up "counselors to the President" and "senior strategists" like layers on a compost heap. He is taking his own core staff of four seasoned political operatives from the State Department, and he will hack through tangled lines of authority by working with such trusted, longtime allies as campaign chairman Robert Teeter and Budget Director Richard Darman...
...industry. The average homeowner uses more pesticide and chemical fertilizer per acre of lawn than farmers do on the same amount of land. Cut back on these potent pollutants as well as nonbiodegradable detergents, cleansers and solvents. An attractive alternative to buying chemical fertilizer is to compost fallen leaves and lawn clippings, which now constitute 18% of all municipal solid waste...