Make Mine Green
Photo is a planter made out of a recycled something or other. I saw it outside Memphis Tennessee at Gardens Oy Vey. Joel Makower's blog, Two Steps Forward, is about the greening of business. Today's blog entry is about Waste Management , the big trash company, refocusing itself into a materials management company by recycling more trash than it dumps into landfills. Makower points out that we used to hear a lot about reduce, reuse, recycle but that the whole recycling effort has gone so mainstream that it is talked about less now. Even our town of 45,000 has a recycling center that takes plastic, paper, glass, metal, cooking oil, auto oil etc. And it has free woodchips available for pickup. Makower said, "I attended an event last week that reminded me of the growing sophistication of today's waste world. It was a private meeting convened by Waste Management and the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth (and facilitated by my colleagues at GreenOrder ). The event, consi...