Press Archive

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INFORM in the News [Archive - Sample Coverage]:

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The Kansas City Star - March 29, 2005

Electronic Garbage Gets Dumped
By SCOTT CANON

Your computer monitor isn't a flat screen? How do you manage with a cell phone that can't shoot video? And you don't seriously think you'll be packing that same iPod six months from now, do you?

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Oil & Gas Journal - March 9, 2005

Hashing Prices Over Hash
By PAULA DITTRICK

The older guy who frequents the neighborhood breakfast joint have been grousing about gasoline prices. They know that I work at OGJ, so they ask me to explain it to them.

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The Philadelphia Inquirer - April 19, 2005

Burlco's Recycling Project is Garbage in, Gas Out
By TOM AVRIL

At the Burlington County landfill, some entrepreneurs have discovered a way to cut the costs of garbage collection, lessen reliance on foreign oil, reduce global warming, and make money all at the same time.

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Waste News - March 28, 2005

Physician, Heal Thyself: More Look to Producers for Waste Solutions
By ALLAN GERLAT

It all begins with a product. Most of the waste and pollution in the world generates from a company making a product. So what should the role of that company when the product's usefulness end?

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Waste News - March 28, 2005

Green by Design - Drawing Board Now Often Ignores Enviro Impact
By ALLAN GERLAT

It all begins with a product. And the product begins with its design. "That's the goal of product stewardship, to design for its end–of–life impact" sand Scott Cassell, director of the Product Stewardship Institute.

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GreenBiz.com - March 10, 2005

Survey: Rechargeable Battery Recycling Program Low on Juice
By GREENBIZ

The recycling efforts of the Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation (RBRC) are falling well short of the mark, according o a new survey by INFORM, Inc., a national environmental research organization.

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Boulder Weekly - Boulder, CO., February 24, 2005

Mercury Rising: Decades After the Risks of This Toxic Metal Became Clear, Pollution From Mercury Continues to Increase
By AMY BROUILLETTE

In 1956, panic rippled through the tiny fishing village of Minamata, Japan. Villagers began suffering numbness in their limbs, blurring vision and dementia. Birds fell from the sky, and thousands of fish went belly up in the nearby bay.

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The Christian Science Monitor - Boston, MA., February 9, 2005

Environmentalists push for a "Greener" iPod.
By SAMAR FARAH

First, Apple made iPod. Wondrously white and smooth and with a navigational Click Wheel so touch sensitive, it granted music lovers a sense of magical powers untold. Then environmentalists broke the spell.

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The Washington Times - Washington DC, January 26, 2005

Analysis: US Ready for OPEC's Next Move
By HIL ANDERSON

The United States appeared Wednesday to have increased its oil supply into adequate shape as OPEC moved nearer a decision on whether to change its export quotas for the coming months.

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Washington Post- Washington, DC, January 12, 2005

Transportation and Alternative Fuel
Transcript of online chat with INFORM founder and president, Joanna D. Underwood

With the cost of gas rising and hybrid cars becoming a realistic option for more Americans, it would seem alternative energy is gaining mainstream acceptance.

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Seattle Post Intelligencer - Seattle, WA, January 3, 2005

Plenty of Uses for Your Old Cellphone
By ASSOCIATED PRESS

There may be plenty of life left in that old cell phone cluttering the junk drawer of your kitchen.

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The Kansas City Star - Kansas, MO, January 2, 2005

Old Phones, New Uses
By JAY MACDONALD

If you passed on buying the whole family cellphones as holiday gifts because of the hefty prices, consider the preowned market.

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Waste News - New York, NY, December 22, 2004

Office Depot to offer free recycling of cellphones
By WASTE NEWS

Office Depot Inc. has started recycling wireless phones and rechargeable batteries free of charge at all of its North American locations.

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Boston Globe - Boston, MA, December 6, 2004

Coping With E-trash Pile Up
By ASSOCIATED PRESS

When Office Depot Inc. stores ran an electronic recycling drive last summer that accepted everything from cellphones to televisions, some stores were overwhelmed by the amount of e-trash they received.

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Science News - Washington, DC, November 6, 2004

Electronic Detox – Lead Free Material for Ecofriendly Gadgetry
By ALEXANDRA GOHO

Scientists in Japan have created a new material that could someday replace toxic components in many electronic devices.

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Wall Street Journal - New York, NY, October 12, 2004

One Word of Advice: Now it's Corn.
By THADDEUS HERRICK

When Dow Chemical Co. and agriculture giant Cargill Inc. began a major push two years ago to market a plastic made from corn instead of oil, they thought they were tapping into consumers' growing worries about the environment.

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Wall Street Journal - New York, NY, September 23, 2004

Old Cellphones Pile Up by the Millions
By JESSE DRUCKNER

As more consumers get new cell phones with fancy features like cameras and color screens they are tossing away millions of old ones—creating a mounting disposal problem with environmental ramifications.

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Times Union - Albany, NY, August 25, 2004

Toxic threat prompts move to ban a bathroom fixture
By RICK KARLIN

Legislation would prevent use of wafers that control urinal odor in schools in New York.

They've been around for decades and are as common as paper towel or soap dispensers, but now the ubiquitous wafers used to control urinal odor are about to be banished from New York's schools.

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The Plain Dealer - Cleveland, OH, August 20, 2004

Sierra Club plans to sit out drive for Metroparks tax issue
By JOHN KUEHNER

The Northeast Ohio Sierra Club will neither endorse nor oppose the Cleveland Metroparks tax issue on the Nov. 2 ballot.

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Bankrate.com - Palm Beach, FL, August 8, 2004

Recycled cell phones save money (and the planet)
By JAY MACDONALD

Want to equip the whole family with cell phones without going into debt?

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Rochester Business Journal - Rochester, NY, July 30, 2004

His focus is on creating a green machine
By WILL ASTOR

It can seem incongruous to hear Jack Azar enthuse over sustainable development as he sits in his office in the middle of Xerox Corp.'s 5–million–square–foot Webster manufacturing complex...

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The Oregonian - Portland, OR, July 27, 2004

After the Last Call
By JULIE TRIPP

Stretch 500 million cell phones end to end and the chain wouldn't just circle the Earth once.
It would circle the globe twice.

That's how many old cell phones could enter what recyclers call the "waste stream" by next year, according to a study by Inform, Inc.

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Waste News - New York, NY, June 29, 2004

INFORM Inc. publishes first data on fluorescent lamp mercury content

Inform Inc., a non profit research organization, has released the first data on the mercury content of fluorescent bulbs, highlighting the health and environmental impacts of mercury released from broken and discarded lamps.

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