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<font size=3><b><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:
<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.
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<x-tab> </x-tab><b>A
commitment to buy more products made with recycled materials is a perfect
Earth Day resolution. Start today by first reading this month's
featured article in which Tyler Elm, Office Depot's Director of
Environmental Affairs, discusses Office Depot's green initiatives and
statistics that highlight how green purchasing is helping MIT to do our
part for the Earth (eg., in 2004, MIT use of recycled content paper
resulted in the </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>
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a subcommittee of WGSSI:
<a href="http://web.mit.edu/committees/wgssi/" eudora="autourl">http://web.mit.edu/committees/wgssi/</a>
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<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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