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Result 1: Based on a study of the recycling bins in our entryways, unread copies of the Gazette constitute precisely 91.8 percent of recycled newsprint at Harvard...
Like abortion, environmentalism cuts across party lines. A national recycling bill is winding its way through Congress. California and Connecticut have recently passed laws requiring the use of recycled newsprint, and similar legislation has been proposed in at least a dozen other states. In New York the environment may be one of the few areas where Democrat Mario Cuomo proves vulnerable: activists consider him indifferent to the issue and specifically fault him for favoring trash incineration over recycling. Yet Cuomo too has proposed an environmental bond issue, mostly to acquire land in the Adirondacks. The $1.9 billion issue would...
...staff editorial by The Harvard Crimson ("Justified, but Insensitive," Feb. 8) reminded me of this destructive editorializing act--reminding me that, as a gay man, I had better remember my assigned rank and file on the battlefield of newsprint because my social position was tenuous and dependent, and therefore subject to attack...
...been terrific," Wolmer says. "The first week we found a lot of other garbage in the bins, but by the second week, everyone seemed to understand how to separate trash." Wolmer hopes to include newspapers; at the moment, however, most recycling plants in New York City cannot handle more newsprint. Magazines pose a different problem. In printing TIME, we cannot currently use stock that contains more than 7% recycled paper; anything more and our high-speed printers would shred the magazine to pieces. However, as recycling technology improves, we aim to increase that percentage...
Last year, after fire destroyed their home outside Canton, Miss., Willie Anderson and seven of her children moved into a rented shack. The place was a horror, with no electricity or running water, rotting walls papered with newsprint, and gaping holes in the tin roof that allowed the rain to pour through. "Once a snake came up under the stove, and we got big rats in there all the time," recalled Anderson, 47, a big, strapping woman in a flowered blouse. "I couldn't wait to get away...