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Published June 16, 2008

Business

Reko Announces Third Quarter Results For Fiscal 2008

Reko International Group Inc. today announced results for its third quarter ended April 30, 2008. Founded in 1976, Reko International Group (TSX:REK) is a highly integrated, technology driven engineering and manufacturing firm providing engineered solutions for the plastics segment of the automotive, aerospace and consumer product markets. In its ten production facilities in Ontario, Reko designs and manufactures precision moulds and other related industrial tooling, in addition to its own proprietary line of CNC machining centres. ...Marketwire Canada, 6.12.2008
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Survey Says One In Four Quebecers Still Throws Out Empty Plastic Bags

"Plastic shopping bags are a recoverable, reusable and recyclable resource that can be easily managed based on the 3 R's of sustainable development," said Pierre Dubois, charge d'affaires for the Environment and Plastics Industry Council. But acording to a recent survey conducted for the Canadian Plastics Industry Association, Quebecers are unclear about the environmental benefits of plastic shopping bags. One third of Quebecers (34%) still don't know that plastic bags represent a recoverable resource that can be recycled. ...Marketwire Canada, 6.11.2008
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Businesses See The Money In Being Green

Sustainability initiatives can directly reduce costs on everything from packing material to transportation. But Kansas City businesses don't have to try to go green alone. Several local sources have programs just for them. In November, the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce launched the Climate Protection Partnership. The partnership works with businesses to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase economic competitiveness. The By-Product Synergy Program puts together businesses to reuse their waste products - what's a waste product at one company might be a usable product at another. ...The Kansas City Star, 6.10.2008
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General News

EDITORIAL: Save The Bags! Hoping To Be Left Holding The Bag

In my domestic world view, you can never have too many plastic bags close at hand. If Solana Beach and now Encinitas are true harbingers of San Diego County's future - and I fear they fit that futuristic bill - then my days of copping free poop bags appear to be numbered. Our coastal paladins are on a crusade to banish from the planet the most useful, flexible, sublime - and cheapest - packaging device in human history. Yes, there are those who might call this anti-plastic campaign a responsible reaction to an inconvenient truth about the earth's health. I, on the other hand, call it an atrocity, the mass extermination of a noble species of human invention. ...San Diego Union-Tribune, 6.12.2008
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Bethlehem Will Be First In The Lehigh Valley To Recycle Polystyrene

Hold on before you chuck that empty foam coffee cup, egg carton or take-out container into the trash can. The City of Bethlehem wants them. Starting Friday, Bethlehem will become the first city in the Lehigh Valley to collect the discarded polystyrene foam at its Theis/Cornfeld Recycling Center. The city makes no money on the polystyrene recycling, though it could earn the city a bigger grant from the state Department of Environmental Protection. The amount of material the city recycles helps determine how much it gets for its annual state performance grant. ...The Morning Call, 6.12.2008
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Whitepapers

Titanate & Zirconate Coupling Agent Additives - Making Nano Technology Work

By Salvatore J. Monte, Kenrich Petrochemicals Inc.
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What’s New With Ultra High Melt Viscosity Polymers?

By Frank M. Chapman, Fluoron Inc.
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