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...York State law requiring stores to pay refunds on returned bottles and cans has taken away some of R2B2's business, but the facility, which will earn . nearly $3 million in revenues this year, cannot begin to meet the demand for such materials as plastic and glass. Similar trash-taming plants have gone up in numerous cities, including Newark, Miami and Philadelphia...
...something about the situation, Maraniss returned to Austin, where she serves as regional director of the Washington-based Center for Marine Conservation, and organized the first Texas Coastal Cleanup. It has since become an annual event; last fall more than 8,000 people bagged 158 tons of trash. And 24 other states now hold their own cleanups...
...world's biggest per capita garbage producer, the U.S. has the greatest potential for recycling. The good news: all over the country, local communities and states have passed laws requiring separation of various types of trash for community recycling. New York City, whose estimated 27,000 tons of municipal solid waste per day might seem an intractable problem, launched a program last year. The goal is to recycle 25% of the city's trash within five years...
...sampler of the worldwide whirl planned for the big day. The committed and the merely curious will be gathering at sites from Toulouse to Tokyo. There's something for everyone: a quiet read or a marathon rock concert, a bike ride or a mountain climb, some tree planting or trash sculpting...
Tokyo happening. Visitors to the Earth Day festival at Yume-no-shima (Dream Island), a park built on what was once a trash dump, can take in a concert or play, watch milk cartons being turned into postcards and cooking oil into soap, or tour two nearby garbage-processing centers...