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BREDL Zero Waste Campaign
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Waste is Big Climate Problem, New Report Finds
A zero waste approach revealed as a top climate
protection strategy: Winston-Salem, NC June 5, 2008 –
Today the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League joined with
environmental groups across the United States to release the new
report, Stop Trashing the Climate. This timely
report, on United Nations World Environment Day and with North
Carolina in the midst of a major early June heat wave, points the
way for North Carolina to move forward to reduce waste and
simultaneously to cut the state’s greenhouse gas emissions. BREDL Press
Release and link to Report
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Boone, NC Town Council passes Resolution creating a Zero Waste Plan
October 25, 2006: Boone, NC Town Council passes Resolution creating a Zero Waste Plan in order to eliminate waste and pollution in the
manufacture, use, storage and recycling of materials.. Read October 23, 2006 Watauga Democrat article | View Resolution passed by Boone on October 19, 2006.
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Article on Packaging PVC Clamshells
Feb. 16, 2006: A recent article in Purchasing
Magazine reports on packaging PVC clamshells. In
the Feb. 16 article "The battle rages over
use of PVC clamshells", Microsoft attorney,
Joan Krajewski, "estimates its replacement
of PVC packaging with corrugated cardboard and
recyclable plastic packaging will remove more
than 800,000 lbs from landfills annually."
Jay Watts, senior manager of the Microsoft
package engineering management team, says
"as part of the project, we were able to
eliminate clamshells altogether-not just the PVC
but the clamshell itself-from 60-70% of our
packaging, so no substitution was needed at
all." Those clamshells made of plastic still
in use now are made of polyethylene terephthalate
(PET), he says, "and 25% of that resin is
recycled material."
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