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Expansion of bottle deposit uncertain this year

Westchester Journal News
June 12, 2007 - DAN WIESSNERALBANY BUREAU ALBANY - With two weeks remaining in this year's legislative session, advocates are pushing a measure that would expand the state's nickel-deposit recycling program. The state Department of Environmental Conservation said New York has seen a 74 percent rate of return on the bottles and cans, which advocates say has led to "tremendous" reductions in litter. Advocates are lobbying the Legislature to approve a bottle bill before the session ends June 21. ...
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Concern for land nets national award

Honolulu Advertiser
June 12, 2007 - The students collected cans and bottles at lunchtime from late October until mid-May, and enlisted their families to help get the containers to recycling centers on weekends, Sackrider said. ...
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Stamford seeks input on garbage pickup changes

The Stamford Advocate
June 12, 2007 - ...to recycle since 1991, though they are not required to pick up bottles, cans and other items curbside.The state Department of Environmental Protection estimates about 30 percent of municipal solid waste statewide is recycled."We really need to do a better job, but when you are making it easier to throw away stuff, and harder to recycle it, you are really defeating the purpose," said Judy Belaval, an environmental analyst in the DEP's Bureau of Materials Management and......
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Bomb squad detonates suspicious briefcase at courthouse

Westchester Journal News
June 12, 2007 - A member of the squad, clad in a protective gear, exploded the black carry-on bag at about 11 a.m., seconds after county police Lt. ...
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San Jose Mercury News, Calif., Spaces and Places column: Spaces and places: City closes cash gap to build apartments above Original Joe's

San Jose Mercury News
June 12, 2007 - ...recycling asphalt and concrete to meet rising demand for aggregates -- rock, sand and gravel -- that are building blocks for construction.Raisch has been recycling these building materials from demolition projects since 1985. The company has manufactured and recycled about 12 million tons of rock and debris for use in roads, bridges and buildings.In a report released in February, the California Department of Conservation issued a warning to local planners that the supply......
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Building power into new home

Plain Dealer, Cleveland
June 12, 2007 - Under law, CEI must accept the power the house is sending back - and credit the homeowner penny for penny until the net bill is zero. Combine those efficiencies with solar output and you get electric bills that should be about half what the neighbors in similar homes are paying, he said. ...
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More Letters to the Editor

Seattle Post-Intelligencer
June 12, 2007 - Now he wants to repush his amnesty immigration bill again. Lynn Woolsey, D-Calif., has introduced a bill in the U.S. Congress called, The Balancing Act - HR2392. I'm grumbling that it doesn't have two bags. ...
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Cubans go to street to augment rations

Rocky Mountain News
June 12, 2007 - A teenage boy at a weathered wooden cart asks 2 pesos for "granizados," small plastic cups of ice drizzled with strawberry-flavored syrup. Another vendor sells homemade popcorn in plastic bags for 3 pesos. ...
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Event's environmental impact being assessed by KU auditors

Journal-World
June 12, 2007 - ...recycled, but that didn't include glass, which can be difficult to transport and doesn't fetch a good price in Kansas. This year, glass is in the mix of what's being recycled, but as of Monday it was too early to estimate how much total waste would be recycled, said Rylan Ortiz, who runs the Recycalusa program at the festival.The plastic New Belgium beer cups used at the festival, made of high-density polyethylene, will be taken to Concordia and sold for use in making picnic tables,......
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Police link 2 bodies at recycle centers

Buffalo News
June 12, 2007 - Louis Post-Dispatch that workers at the Snowflake plant found the body in a large container used to collect material rejected in the paper recycling process. The body of Jansen's wife, Susan, 48, was found May 24 on a conveyor belt at a recycling center in north St. Police believe both of the Jansens, who had recently become homeless, had gone to sleep in a recycling container in south St. ...
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