NORTH AMERICA

USA (World's largest producer of waste):

Campaigns and related articles: Information urging the industry to really recycle plastic.

Grass Roots Recycling Network Plastic Beverage Container Campaign: An important campaign urging Coke, Pepsi and other barons of plastic waste to really recycle their bottles.

COKE is Urged to Recycle their Plastic Bottles!

COKE: Shareholders Press Beverage Industry to Increase Recycling: Coke Commits, Pepsi Snubs - Container and Packaging Recycling UPDATE Summer/Fall 2001

Pepsi Drops Recycled Plastic in Gatorade  -  Plastics Recycling Update Oct01

Pepsi 'Broke Recycling Promise' -  Grassroots Recycling Network 27apr01

Plastic Container recycling under 25%, by Peter Anderson

Packaging Action Plan - Packaging Task Force--Washington State Department of Ecology  Jan91

MAINE: Environmental groups seek ban on chemical used in soft vinyl toys Dec 02

ZERO WASTE:

Campaign of the Grass Roots Recycling Network www.grrn.org

National (US) Beverage Producer Responsibility Act, Campaign of the Grass Roots Recycling Network

ELECTRONIC WASTE:

Please Take Back My Computer,

Ask the US EPA to improve electronic waste policy: EPA's proposed CRT rule for Hazardous Electronics Waste management falls far short of stated goals and will likely increase e-waste export and dirty recycling and dumping of pollutants in Asian countries. Further, it fails to address improper e-waste disposal by individual consumers.

Dell Shareholders Urged to Examine All Aspects of Company's Performance Groups question environmental policy, responsibility for growing problem of electronic waste May 1, 2002

Shareholders, environmentalists, workers pressure Dell Computer to match company performance with environmental leadership
US consumers deserve same service offered in European, Japanese markets July 18, 2002

SPECIFIC NEWS:

Volume of Plastic Bottles going to Landfills increased 15 percent in 1998  - Container Recycling Institute June 1999

Recyclers, Already Facing Losses, Fear New Plastics  -  Wall Street Journal Nov 99

Beverage Container Waste Sets Record in 1998, Recycling Declines  - Container and Packaging Recycling UPDATE  Fall 2000

MBA Reopens: Innovative Plastics Plant Returns After Fire -  SF Chronicle 11jun01

Retailers Looking for Plastic Bag Recycling Solutions as Recycling Plants Close  -  South Bend Tribune 6jul01

Abysmal recycling rates prompt 'edgy' $10 million campaign Jennifer Kerr / AP 24may01

Californians trashing recyclable bottles Jane Kay / SF Chronicle 25may01

PLASTIC DOWNSTREAM: Waste in our Oceans

Plastic Outnumbers Plankton in N. Pacific: Tiny Bits of Plastic Harm Oceangoing Birds and Wildlife  - Orange County Register April 01.

A Comparison of Plastic and Plankton in the North Pacific Central Gyre. - Algalita Marine Research Foundation

BANS AND ORDINANCES:

Suffolk County (NY) Ban of Plastic Grocery Bags and other Plastic Food Containers

Suffolk County, NY, Bans Plastic Food Containers -- First In Nation  RACHEL'S ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH WEEKLY #76 9may88

Plastic Wrapping Banned in Suffolk Factory Packaging is Exempt Law Takes Effect in '89 Philip S Gutis / Special to New York Times p.1 30apr88

Wisconsin Prohibits Retail Plastic Container with less than 10% post consumer waste in 2002, 20% in 2004, and 25% in 2006 -

CANADA:

STOP Hazardous Waste Incinerator in Canada! We write to seek your urgent support to defeat the proposal of Bennett Environmental Inc. to site a hazardous waste incinerator in a residential area in Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada. Your immediate action will help foil the plan to turn the Temiskaming district into a toxic dumping and burning ground of dioxin-contaminated materials. According to company sources, 90% of the waste will come from outside Canada. Please act immediately – before 1 July 2002. The proposal is scheduled to be passed within the next few weeks.