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...obsession with sexuality. "You should be ashamed," said a very powerful entertainment executive who has made millions of dollars producing smutty, antisocial television and movies. "Howard Stern is a pornographer!" another prominent diner screeched. Still another predicted Stern's book would be a flop, since nobody but semiliterate white trash listens...
...action will not solve the paper-trash glut, which makes up 40% of the nation's solid waste. But Uncle Sam buys nearly 300,000 tons of paper a year (2% of U.S. sales) and may have the clout to change the industry's economics. Up to now, demand for recycled paper has not persuaded paper companies to make the huge investments in plant and equipment needed for recycling. So limited supply has kept prices high, which in turn has hurt demand. Clinton hopes government purchases will stimulate a much bigger supply, eventually cutting prices and making born-again stationery...
Mansfield's comments, and the predictably venomous trash that last week spewed from the lips of arbiters of morality like Peninsulite Rob Wasinger, are less dangerous. The attacks that Mansfield and Wasinger have leveled against homosexuality are not sophisticated, and don't pretend to be efforts to make life easier for gay men and lesbians. Their comments, instead, are recycled mantras of hate and intolerance: Mansfield calls gay love "imperfect and stunted and frustrated," while Wasinger agrees and adds "vile and detestable" to the list...
...moment too soon. In spite of highly visible and rapidly spreading collection programs, and the surprising willingness of Americans to sort their trash, the national recycling effort is deeply troubled. With comprehensive recycling programs in 40 states, and the number of communities offering such programs jumping from 50 to over 4,000 in the past three years, cities and municipalities now collect far more of some items than the recycling industry can handle -- materials such as high-grade white paper, computer paper, green glass and plastics. That means that the bottles, milk jugs and catalogs that are diligently separated into...
...example, has landfill for 100 years, even without recycling. Modern incinerators, though hardly without their critics, offer a tidier alternative for waste disposal. The 1980s saw a binge in new incinerator construction, and cities across the country, from Long Beach, California, to Fairfax, Virginia, now burn some of their trash, turning a portion of it into energy in the process...