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118. Tony Carnie, “Poison concerns for Inanda Dam,” The Mercury [South Africa], October 15, 2008.
119. Advising and Monitoring the Clean Up and Disposal of Mercury Waste in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa: The Case of Thor Chemicals, groundWork, May 2005 (Zeromercury.org/projects/Proposal_EEB_
Thor_Chemicals_Final_revised
_new_webvs.pdf).
120. James Ridgeway with Gaelle Drevet, “How Thousands of Tons of Philadelphia’s Toxic Waste Ended Up on a Haitian Beach and What the City of New York Is Doing About It,” The Village Voice, January 13, 1998 (ban.org/ban_news/dumping_on_Haiti.html).
121. Personal correspondence with Senior Litigation Counsel Howard Stewart, of the U.S. Department of Justice, Environmental Crimes Section, June 1989.
122. Website of the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal: basel.int/.
123. “Milestones in the Convention’s History,” Basel Convention (basel.int/convention/basics.html).
124. Heather Rogers, Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage (New York: New Press, 2005), p. 170.
125. Neil Seldman, “The New Recycling Movement, Part 1: Recycling Changes to Meet New Challenges,” Institute for Local Self-Reliance, October 2003 (ilsr.org/recycling/newmovement1.html).
126. Municipal Solid Waste in the United States 2007 Facts and Figures, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, p. 1.
127. Ibid., p. 16.
128. “Recycling Means Business,” Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ilsr.org/recycling/recyclingmeansbusiness.html).
129. “Mobil Chemical Corporation,” abstract, World Resources Institute Sustainable Enterprise Program, 1992 (pdf.wri.org/bell/abstracts/case_1–56973–155–1_abstract_version_english.pdf). Another Mobil spokesperson said, “[Degradable bags] are not an answer to landfill crowding or littering... Degradability is just a marketing tool... We’re talking out of both sides of our mouths because we want to sell bags. I don’t think the average consumer even knows what degradability means. Customers don’t care if it solves the solid-waste problem. It makes them feel good.” Quoted in Carl Deal, The Greenpeace Guide to Anti-Environmental Organizations (Berkeley: Odonian Press, 1993), p. 9.
130. “Mobil, FTC to settle ‘environmental’ claims for its Hefty trash bags,” Boston Globe, July 28, 1992. Also see Keith Schneider, “Guides on Environmental Ad Claims,” New York Times, July 29, 1992.
131. Rogers, Gone Tomorrow, p. 174.
132. Personal correspondence with Paul Connett, June 2008.
133. Anne Underwood, “10 Fixes for the Planet,” Newsweek, April 14, 2008 (newsweek.com/id/130625?tid=relatedcl%20).
134. “What Is Zero Waste?” Grass Roots Recycling Network (grrn.org/zerowaste/zerowaste_faq.html).
135. Personal correspondence with Monica Wilson, international co-coordinator for Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives/Global Anti-Incinerator Alliance, August 2009.
136. Brenda Platt, David Ciplet, Kate M. Bailey, and Eric Lombardi, Stop Trashing the Climate, Institute for Local-Self Reliance, the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives/Global Anti-Incinerator Alliance, and Eco-Cycle, June 2008, p. 2 (stoptrashingtheclimate.org/fullreport_
stoptrashingtheclimate.pdf).
137. “Milestones on the Zero Waste Journey,” Zero Waste New Zealand Trust (zerowaste.co.nz/default,724.sm).
138. John Coté, “S.F. OKs toughest recycling law in U.S.,” San Francisco Chronicle, June 10, 2009 (sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/10/MN09183NV8.DTL).
139. Ibid.
140. Zero Waste Kovalam website: zerowastekovalam.org.
141. From a speech by Jayakumar Chelaton at a meeting of international waste activists in Penang, Malaysia, in 2003.
Epilogue: Writing the New Story
1. Robert Putnam, Bowling Alone (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), p. 20.
2. Ibid., p. 21.
3. Colin Beavan, post from the No Impact Man blog on March 21, 2008 (noimpactman.typepad.com/blog/2008/03/like-falling-of.html). See his book for more: Colin Beavan, No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet,