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<font size=3><b>Dear Editors,<br>
Please read below. I wanted to bring this issue of the <i>Working Group
Recycling Committee</i>'s newsletter to your attention because in the
"letter from the editor" section (1st page, left side bar) I
mention conversations with Kyle Rohm,
</font><font size=3 color="#262424">Manager of Custodial Services, and
his request to the community that we reduce all publication volume by
10%:<br><br>
</b><i>"Imagine how much waste we could avoid if MIT editors,
publishers, offices, and organizations reduced their publication volume
by 10%", wrote Kyle Rohm, Manager of Custodial Services. Kyle sees
firsthand how many boxes upon boxes of MIT publications get recycled
instead of read or even opened each year. If we as individuals and as a
community can take small steps and adopt just one greener habit today, or
this week, or this shopping trip, we can gradually decrease the amount of
trash headed for the incinerator or the landfill."<br><br>
</i></font>Please let me know your thoughts on this matter and reply if
you would like to be added to the e-mailing list for The Monthly
Bale.<br>
Please follow the link below to the newsletter for more info. on reducing
waste@ MIT.<br><br>
Thanks,<br>
Amy Donovan<br>
<font size=2><b>Editor, The Monthly Bale
</b><a href="http://web.mit.edu/wgrecycling/monthly_bale.shtml" eudora="autourl">http://web.mit.edu/wgrecycling/monthly_bale.shtml</a><br><br>
</font><font size=3><b>~~~~~<br><br>
<a href="http://web.mit.edu/wgrecycling/monthly_bale.shtml">The Monthly
Bale<br><br>
</a></b>(Bale=A compacted and bound cube of recycled material.)<br>
<b><i>An informative and inspirational newsletter from the Working Group
Recycling Committee to MIT Recycling Ambassadors, colleagues, and the MIT
community.<br><br>
</i></b>Volume 2, No. 2<br>
</font><font size=3 color="#0000FF"><a href="http://web.mit.edu/wgrecycling/docs/monthly_bale/monthly_bale_040505.pdf">April/May
2005<br><br>
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<a href="http://web.mit.edu/wgrecycling/">The Working Group Recycling
Committee</a> invites you to read the <i>reducing waste</i> issue of The
Monthly Bale, now posted on our website at:
<a href="http://web.mit.edu/wgrecycling/docs/monthly_bale/monthly_bale_040505.pdf" eudora="autourl">http://web.mit.edu/wgrecycling/docs/monthly_bale/monthly_bale_040505.pdf</a><br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>As we
"go to press", the UN celebrates World Water Day.
</font><font size=3 color="#262424">Imagine how much water, energy, and
resources it takes to fashion virgin copy paper from a tree in the
forest. This process includes logging, trucking the logs, watering down
the log piles in the lumberyard daily, pulping, bleaching, manufacturing,
and distribution. Reducing the amount of goods we purchase, and therefore
manufacture, as well as purchasing products made from recycled materials,
saves not only natural resources but also water, environmental
degradation, erosion, pollution of our water supply, and landfill space.
<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><b>A
commitment to buy more products made with recycled materials is a perfect
Earth Day resolution. In line with Earth Day, buying green, and MIT's
purchasing initiative, we present an article in which Tyler Elm, Office
Depot's Director of Environmental Affairs, discusses Office Depot's green
initiatives and recycled content products. These green offerings are
helping MIT to do our part for the Earth; including
</font><font size=3 color="#262424">the estimated environmental benefits
of MIT’s use of recycled content paper during 2004:
</font><font size=3>conservation of 1,837 fully grown
trees.</font><font size=3 color="#262424"> <br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>The
Working Group Recycling Committee invites you to celebrate the Earth and
MIT’s many environmental options at our Earth Day Celebration at the
Stata Center Amphitheater on Thursday April 28. See page 3 of the Monthly
Bale for more information. </font><font size=3>In this issue we also
offer <i>MIT-specific</i> tips for reducing the amount of waste we send
to the landfill. <br><br>
</b>The Monthly Bale is posted on our website for on-line reading, or for
printing out. Please reduce waste by printing double-sided on
recycled paper.<br>
To read current or archived issues of The Monthly Bale, please visit:
<a href="http://web.mit.edu/wgrecycling/monthly_bale.shtml" eudora="autourl">http://web.mit.edu/wgrecycling/monthly_bale.shtml</a><br><br>
Download our April e-calendar featuring environmental lectures, WGR
meeting dates, and green purchasing tips from this month's sponsor,
Office Depot!
<a href="http://web.mit.edu/wgrecycling/calendars.shtml" eudora="autourl">http://web.mit.edu/wgrecycling/calendars.shtml</a><br><br>
Please forward this email to your friends and coworkers!<br>
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</font><font size=3><b>The mission of the MIT Working Group Recycling
Committee is to develop and deliver programs that educate administrative
and support staff about recycling, reducing and reusing goods. Efforts
include identifying/addressing gaps in staff understanding about
recycling as well as gaps in recycling resources and creating ways to
increase recycling at MIT. </b>For more information about the
Working Group Recycling Committee, please visit:
</font><a href="http://web.mit.edu/wgrecycling/index.shtml" eudora="autourl"><font size=3 color="#0000FF">http://web.mit.edu/wgrecycling/index.shtml</a><br>
</font><font size=3>For more information about the Recycling Ambassadors
Plus Program, please visit:
</font><a href="http://web.mit.edu/wgrecycling/ambassadors_plus.shtml" eudora="autourl"><font size=3 color="#0000FF">http://web.mit.edu/wgrecycling/ambassadors_plus.shtml</a>
<br><br>
</font><font size=3><b>Amy Donovan<br>
</font><font size=2>Co-Chair, Working Group Recycling Committee
</b><a href="http://web.mit.edu/wgrecycling/" eudora="autourl">http://web.mit.edu/wgrecycling/</a>
<br>
a subcommittee of WGSSI:
<a href="http://web.mit.edu/committees/wgssi/" eudora="autourl">http://web.mit.edu/committees/wgssi/</a>
<br>
<b>Editor, The Monthly Bale </b><a href="http://web.mit.edu/wgrecycling/monthly_bale.shtml" eudora="autourl">http://web.mit.edu/wgrecycling/monthly_bale.shtml</a><br>
</font><font size=2 color="#0000FF"><b><u>adonovan@mit.edu<br>
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