by Mark Lennon | May 17, 2010 | Recycling
The humanitarian crisis caused by the Haiti earthquake has fallen out of the evening news. But that doesn’t mean the crisis is in any way diminished. At this point, four months after Haiti’s earthquake, the situation has been stabilized in terms of the most urgent...
by Mark Lennon | May 14, 2010 | Recycling
Company C in Concord, NH makes and sells high-quality bedding, furniture, and fabrics. Its products are made in more than 20 countries and sold to customers in twice that many. Company C’s warehouse is a buzz-saw. Trailers and containers from U.S. and international...
by Mark Lennon | May 13, 2010 | Recycling
Electronics Amnesties are a different take on Weird Waste. Used electronics are a liability. They contain information you don’t want to escape. They contain hazardous substances. Many of them, particularly CRT and flat-screen monitors, TVs, laptops, and anything with...
by Mark Lennon | May 13, 2010 | Recycling
There is nothing we throw away that is not a resource. Paper – To make paper we kill trees, hurt the land, and damage ecosystems. Almost 100% of paper can be recycled. The small fraction that can’t be recycled can be composted or burned to create energy – renewable,...
by Mark Lennon | May 13, 2010 | Recycling
For over 100 years into the 1970s the H.W. Carter overall factory was a cornerstone of the community in Lebanon, NH. Sitting just off the town green, it was also a centerpiece of the landscape. But as in thousands of other communities, times changed, the Carter...
