[Editors] The Monthly Bale and reducing your publications by 10%

[Amy B. Donovan]

Dear Editors,
Please read below. I wanted to bring this issue of the Working Group 
Recycling Committee's newsletter to your attention because in the "letter 
from the editor" section (1st page, left side bar) I mention conversations 
with Kyle Rohm, Manager of Custodial Services, and his request to the 
community that we reduce all publication volume by 10%:

"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."

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.
Please follow the link below to the newsletter for more info. on reducing 
waste@ MIT.

Thanks,
Amy Donovan
Editor, The Monthly Bale http://web.mit.edu/wgrecycling/monthly_bale.shtml

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<http://web.mit.edu/wgrecycling/monthly_bale.shtml>The Monthly Bale

(Bale=A compacted and bound cube of recycled material.)
An informative and inspirational newsletter from the Working Group 
Recycling Committee to MIT Recycling Ambassadors, colleagues, and the MIT 
community.

Volume 2, No. 2
<http://web.mit.edu/wgrecycling/docs/monthly_bale/monthly_bale_040505.pdf>April/May 
2005

             <http://web.mit.edu/wgrecycling/>The Working Group Recycling 
Committee invites you to read the reducing waste issue of The Monthly Bale, 
now posted on our website at: 
http://web.mit.edu/wgrecycling/docs/monthly_bale/monthly_bale_040505.pdf
         As we "go to press", the UN celebrates World Water Day.  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.
         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 the estimated 
environmental benefits of MIT's use of recycled content paper during 2004: 
conservation of 1,837 fully grown trees.
         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. In this issue we also offer MIT-specific 
tips for reducing the amount of waste we send to the landfill.

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.
To read current or archived issues of The Monthly Bale, please visit: 
http://web.mit.edu/wgrecycling/monthly_bale.shtml

Download our April e-calendar featuring environmental lectures, WGR meeting 
dates, and green purchasing tips from this month's sponsor, Office Depot! 
http://web.mit.edu/wgrecycling/calendars.shtml

Please forward this email to your friends and coworkers!

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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.  For more information about the Working Group Recycling Committee, 
please visit: http://web.mit.edu/wgrecycling/index.shtml
For more information about the Recycling Ambassadors Plus Program, please 
visit: http://web.mit.edu/wgrecycling/ambassadors_plus.shtml

Amy Donovan
Co-Chair, Working Group Recycling Committee http://web.mit.edu/wgrecycling/
a subcommittee of WGSSI: http://web.mit.edu/committees/wgssi/
Editor, The Monthly Bale http://web.mit.edu/wgrecycling/monthly_bale.shtml
adonovan at mit.edu
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