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- More communities OK plastic bag bans
- Alcoa releases 2011 sustainability report, aims to increase can recycling rate
- Publix Super Markets hits more than 2 billion bags saved
- California task force foils more illegal recycling
- Waste Management bulks up CNG fleet in own back yard
- Rhode Island Senate passes landfill air monitoring bill
- Massachusetts recycling company installs solar panels
- $17.8 million solar farm atop closed New Jersey landfill online
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Veolia executives deny that a buyer has been selected
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More than a dozen speakers testified in front of the U.S. International Trade Commission about... Read more
California elementary students petition Crayola to recycle markers
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Hey, Crayola: Some California elementary school students want you to listen to them. Read more
Transfer stations in New York City face local opposition
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Editor's Opinion
Editorial: Is there a recycling paradox?Then-doctoral-students Jesse R. Catlin and Yitong Wang set up an interesting experiment: They sat undergrads in a room, one at a time, and told them they would be testing scissors. They gave each of them the same task of cutting out shapes. They placed a ream of paper on the table.
Half the students were in a room with only a trash can. The other half were in a room with a trash can and a recycling bin.
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