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74. Interview with Dara O’Rourke, June 2009.
75. “Environmental Responsibility,” Dell (content.dell.com/us/en/corp/dell-earth.aspx).
76. “Soesterberg Principles Electronic Sustainability Commitment,” Clean Production Action (cleanproduction.org/Electronics.Green.php).
77. “Life Cycle Studies: Aluminum Cans,” World Watch, vol. 19, no. 3, May/June 2006 (worldwatch.org/node/4062).
78. Alan Thein Durning and John C. Ryan, Stuff: The Secret Lives of Everyday Things (Washington, D.C.: World Future Society, 1998), pp. 62–63.
79. Pearce, Confessions of an Eco-Sinner, p. 146.
80. Durning and Ryan, Stuff, p. 63.
81. Pearce, Confessions of an Eco-Sinner, p. 148.
82. Durning and Ryan, Stuff, pp. 63–64.
83. Personal communication with Juan Rosario, July 2009.
84. “Life Cycle Studies: Aluminum Cans.”
85. Jennifer Gitliz, The Role of the Consumer in Reducing Primary Aluminum Demand, a report by the Container Recycling Institute for the International Strategic Roundtable on the Aluminum Industry, São Luís, Brazil, October 16–18, 2003, p. 2.
86. Pearce, Confessions of an Eco-Sinner, p. 149.
87. Gitliz, The Role of the Consumer in Reducing Primary Aluminum Demand, p. 4.
88. Ibid.
89. “The Aluminum Can’s Dirty Little Secret: On-going Environmental Harm Outpaces the Metal’s ‘Green’ Benefits,” press release from the Container Recycling Institute and International Rivers Network, May 17, 2006 (container-recycling.org/media/newsrelease/aluminum/2006–5-AlumDirty.htm).
90. “Calculating the Aluminum Can Recycling Rate,” Container Recycling Institute (container-recycling.org/facts/aluminum/data/UBCcalculate.htm).
91. Gitliz, The Role of the Consumer in Reducing Primary Aluminum Demand, p. 18.
92. Ibid., p. 13.
93. Ibid., p. 14.
94. Elizabeth Royte, Garbageland: On the Secret Trail of Trash (New York: Little, Brown & Co., 2005), p. 155.
95. “Life Cycle Studies: Aluminum Cans.”
96. Ibid.
97. Michael Belliveau and Stephen Lester, PVC—Bad News Comes in Threes: The Poison Plastic, Health Hazards and the Looming Waste Crisis, The Environmental Health Strategy Center and the Center for Health, Environment and Justice, 2004, pp. 16–18 (chej.org/BESAFE/pvc/pvcreports.htm).
98. Ibid., p. 18.
99. Ibid., pp. 19–20.
100. Stephen Lester, Michael Schade, and Caitlin Weigand, “Volatile Vinyl: the New Shower Curtain’s Chemical Smell,” Center for Health, Environment and Justice, June 12, 2008 (cela.ca/publications/volatile-vinyl-new-shower-curtains-chemical-smell-0).
101. Belliveau and Lester, “PVC,” pp. 1, 35.
102. Ibid., p. 2.
103. Ibid., p. 13.
104. Ibid., p. 21.
105. Beverley Thorpe, “Closing the Product Loop: How Europe Is Grappling with Waste,” Clean Production Action, February 11, 2003 (ecologycenter.org/recycling/beyond50
percent/closingtheloop.ppt).
106. “PVC Governmental Policies Around the World,” Center for Health, Environment and Justice (besafenet.com/pvc/government.htm).
107. Ibid.
108. Payal Sampat and Gary Gardner, Mind Over Matter: Recasting the Role of Materials in Our Lives, Worldwatch Institute, December 1998 (worldwatch.org/node/846).
109. Personal correspondence with Ted Schettler, July 2009.
110. “Lead, Cadmium, and Other Harmful Chemicals Found in Popular Children’s Toys,” press release from the Washington Toxics Coalition, December 12, 2007 (watoxics.org/pressroom/press-releases/popular-holiday-toys-contaminated-with-high-levels-of-toxic-chemicals/).
111. David Duncan, Experimental Man (Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2009), p. 159.
112. Michael Hawthorne, “Pregnant women get new mercury warning,” Chicago Tribune, February 7, 2004 (ewg.org/node/22671).
113. Duncan, Experimental Man, p. 129.
114. “Mercury in the Environment,” U.S. Geological Survey (usgs.gov/themes/factsheet/146–00/).
115. Duncan, Experimental Man, p. 159.
116. “Historic Treaty to Tackle Toxic Heavy Metal Mercury Gets Green Light,” press release from the United Nations Environment Programme, February 20, 2009 (unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=562&ArticleID=6090&l=en/).
117. Ibid.
118. Ibid.
119. Stacy Malkan,