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25. The figure that “75% of municipal solid waste is products” is calculated by weight. This comes from a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency data series going back to 1960, called Characterization of Municipal Solid Waste (epa.gov/osw//nonhaz/municipal/msw99.htm).
26. Helen Spiegelman and Bill Sheehan, Unintended Consequences: Municipal Solid Waste Management and the Throwaway Society, Product Policy Institute, 2005, p. 8.
27. Julie Scelfo, “Appliance Anxiety: Replace It or Fix It?” The New York Times, May 27, 2009 (nytimes.com/2009/05/28/garden/28repair.html).
28. “Industry Statistics for 2008,” PSA Update, newsletter of the Professional Service Association newsletter, April 2009 (psaworld.com/ASN_Update_04-09.pdf).
29. Shoe Service Institute of America website: ssia.info/about.asp.
30. Gena Terlizzi, “Shoe Repair Shops Boom During Tough Economic Times,” KTKA, February 16, 2009 (ktka.com/news/2009/feb/16/shoe_repair_shops_
boom_during_tough_economic_times/).
31. Vance Packard, The Waste Makers (New York: David McKay, 1960), p. 119.
32. John Roach, “Plastic-Bag Bans Gaining Momentum Around the World,” National Geographic News, April 4, 2008 (nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080404-plastic-bags.html).
33. “Irish Bag Tax Hailed as Success,” BBC News, August 20, 2002 (news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/2205419.stm).
34. Daniel Imhoff, Paper or Plastic (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 2005), p. 139.
35. “The Decline of Refillable Beverage Bottles in the U.S.,” Container Recycling Institute (container-recycling.org/facts/glass/decline.htm).
36. Beverage Containers: US Industry Forecasts for 2012 and 2017, summary, Freedonia Group, November 2008 (reportbuyer.com/industry_manufacturing/
chemicals_industry/beverage_containers.html).
37. “Bottle Bill Resource Guide,” Container Recycling Institute (bottlebill.org/about/whatis.htm).
38. “H.R. 2046—Bottle Recycling Climate Protection Act of 2009,” OpenCongress (opencongress.org/bill/111-h2046/show).
39. “Bottle Bill Opponents,” Container Recycling Institute (bottlebill.org/about/opponents.htm).
40. “Bottle Bill Toolkit,” Container Recycling Institute (toolkit.bottlebill.org/opposition/opponents.htm).
41. “Keep America Beautiful: A History,” Container Recycling Institute (toolkit.bottle bill.org/opposition/KABhistory.htm).
42. Chadd De Las Casas, “Playing Indian: The Iron Eyes Cody Story,” Associated Content, October 15, 2007 (associatedcontent.com/article/404817/
playing_indian_the_iron_eyes_
cody_story_pg2.html?cat=38).
43. Ted Williams, “The Metamorphosis of Keep America Beautiful,” Audubon, March 1990.
44. “Key Vote for National Recycling Coalition,” BioCycle, vol. 50, no. 7, July 2009, p. 6.
45. Bette K. Fishbein, Germany, Garbage and the Green Dot: Challenging a Throwaway Society (Philadelphia: Diane Publishing, 1996), p. 46.
46. Ibid., p. 36.
47. Extended Producer Responsibility, Clean Production Action, 2003, p. 28 (cleanproduction.org/library/EPRtoolkitFINAL.pdf).
48. Deanne Toto, “Green with Envy: Germany’s Green Dot program continues generating good collection numbers,” Recycling Today, October 2004 (thefreelibrary.com/Green+with+envy%3a+Germany’s+Green+Dot+program+continues+generating...-a0123753975).
49. “Summary of Germany’s packaging take-back law,” Clean Production Action, September 2003, p. 3 (cleanproduction.org/library/EPR_dvd/Duales
SystemDeutsch _REVISEDoverview.pdf).
50. Garth T. Hickle, “The Producer Is Responsible for Packaging in the European Union,” Package Design Magazine, 2006 (packagedesignmag.com/issues/2006.11/
special.producer.shtml).
51. Spiegelman and Sheehan, Unintended Consequences, p. 5.
52. “History of Waste,” Product Policy Institute (productpolicy.org/content/history-waste).
53. Spiegelman and Sheehan, Unintended Consequences, p. 2.
54. “Fees,” Product Policy Institute (productpolicy.org/content/fees).
55. Construction Materials Recycling Association website: cdrecycling.org.
56. “Mission