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...Fluff is used as a peat substitute. Bouldin's new landfill project is expected to swing to profitability after it launches its first durable products next year: landscape timber and building blocks made from trash. "A few years down the line, we'll wonder why we ever put this stuff in the ground," says marketing manager Terry Jones...
Some of the push to reuse is more cultural than economic. Hawaii's Pacific Biodiesel opened for business in 1996 with the explicit goal of helping the environment. That company collects used restaurant cooking oil--the stuff used to fry French fries and doughnuts--and converts it to diesel fuel. It's a well-known technology, championed by the likes of country singer Willie Nelson, but it hadn't been cost competitive until recently. Pacific Biodiesel sells a gallon of its French-fry fuel for $2.84 per gal. to $2.91 per gal.--which was about 60¢ cheaper than a gallon...
...calm, reflecting the couple's Japanese heritage and their recently redesigned home. The garage floors are finished in stain-resistant granite, a wall system holds baskets and shelves, there's brushed-aluminum cabinetry--and Cardenas' prized wines are organized in a 2,000-bottle room. "I had so much stuff that I couldn't get in or out," he says. "Now I can navigate the place without killing myself." How many homeowners can make that claim...
...Royal.) An adviser to Strauss-Kahn issues a similar criticism: "What the polls measure is popularity, not competence. Socialists have a furious love of debate, and she's not debating. What does she think about debt, about foreign policy, about economic governance? You've got to talk about this stuff. And you can't talk to party activists like you do to public opinion...
Though wildly successful, the MLM business model has opened supplement companies to a persistent complaint: the stuff doesn't work as claimed. Because independent marketers are not scrutinized by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the business has long been criticized for pushing unwarranted claims through its network of sellers. "While you have the FDA breathing down your neck about what your company can legally say, distributors like Bob and Mary can tell their friends whatever they want," says Dan Hurley, author of the forthcoming exposé Natural Causes. He writes that aside from fish oil, vitamin D and a handful...