Dear Friends--From the Green Yes mailing list. Tom >The State of the Recycling Industry > >The recycling industry is a sterling example of how grassroot initiatives >can spur the creation of bonafide industries. We've come a long way since >the 1960s, when tiny non-profits drove around in vans collecting >recyclables from prescient individuals who didn't want to throw their >"waste" away. > >In less than 40 years, the U.S. recycling industry has become a backbone >of our economy. In 1968, the fledgling industry pulled in $4.6 billion in >annual sales; today, revenues are roughly $236 billion [National Recycling >Coalition]. The industry provides employment for 1.1 million people, up >from just 79,000 in the late 1960s, and 56,000 public and private >facilities processing recyclables. Our research partners Cannacord Adams >estimate the industry accounts for about 2% of the $12.36 trillion U.S. >gross domestic product as of last year. > >The recycling industry generates more than twice the revenue than the $100 >billion waste management industry [National Solid Wastes Management >Association] even though much more garbage is thrown out than recycled. >That's because recycled materials generate economic value - waste disposal >doesn't. > read more... >http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/progressiveinvestor.sample/id/76/sectionid/325
Tom Shelley 118 E. Court St. Ithaca, NY 14850 607 342-0864 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.myspace.com/99319958 P I thank you for printing this e-mail only if it is necessary "Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." The World Commission on Environment and Development, Gro Harlem Brundtland Our Common Future, Oxford University Press, 1987 MY NOTE: Sustainable development does not mean "sustainable growth" as growth per se is not sustainable. And the term "sustainable" has to mean "for a very long time" (A. Bartlett). "The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives." Sioux proverb _______________________________________________ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
