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• Pizza boxes. The oil from pizza can contaminate the cardboard making it impossible to process them into clean paper.
• Napkins and paper towels. It’s not the paper goods themselves that present a problem, but the fact that they’re typically used to wipe up food, cleaning products, and other “hazardous waste.”
• Sticky notes. Their size, color, and the adhesive strip make them a better bet for the trash bin.
• Plastic caps. Curbside programs won’t recycle them.
• Wet paper. Paper fibers that have been exposed to water are shorter and therefore less valuable to paper mills, making it unprofitable to collect and recycle.

Just wanted to put a question out to get some feedback…..at what age are still reading the newspaper? And what is the reason for reading with all the media channels available?

November 5th, a day of reflection on history. History made about 24 hours ago here in the midwest electing Barack Obama to the 44th President of the United States of America. Now that we have a new Commander in Chief, we have a new leader to direct us within the realm of energy independence. But this platform shouldn’t be entirely politically initiated. This needs to start now. This needs to start with us. Gov’t is only going to enforce regulations. Its up to the to the people that claim Red, White, and Blue to save this planet. So many resources are taken for granted. And not enough businesses follow social responsibility.

I enjoy seeing the IBM commercials where they realize how much money is spent on energy costs then you see talking comical animals. Not how I exactly envision going green, but hey, it made me laugh.

President Elect Obama has said in his energy platform that he wants to add 5 million ‘green’ jobs, and I’m assuming that some of these jobs will be created from the development of the 1 million electric cars he wants to get on the road. Which is a great idea. I fully support and will endorse electric cars when they get up to 150 miles in travel per charge. Right now 40 miles per charge isn’t bad, but the increase in distance-to-charge will make these cars more appealing to energy conscience individuals.

These are all great ideas, right? They are when put into motion, so lets do our part and endorse a green living!

I’m not sure if it’s coincidence or what, but my local Journal is now only delivering on subscriptions only! This is great! This means people will only get the paper because they want it, not because the Journal wants to pump out subscriptions to increase volume for ad revenue. Even if this service didn’t force the Journal to stop delivering free papers, I’m happy that the Journal decided to make the effort to only print what is needed and to be more environmentally friendly.

Who needs a print paper anyway. I understand generations are different and the baby boomers and generation Xers probably read the paper. But now-a-days there is so many channels to get news; computer, TV, phones, radio. Which are a easier on the environment and don’t kill unnecessary trees. In fact, the Journal has an RSS feed so I don’t even have to step away from my computer to get the content from the paper, its sent to my RSS feed and I can browse through the headlines and open the articles I find interesting.

I’m not sure if it is coincidence or what, but my local Journal is now only delivering on subscriptions only! This is great! This means people will only get the paper because they want it, not because the Journal wants to pump out subsciptions to increase volume for ad revenue. Even if this service didn’t force the Journal to stop delivering free papers, I’m happy that the Journal decided to make the effort to only print what is needed and to be more enviornmentally friendly.

Who needs a print paper anyway. I understand generations are different and the baby boomers and generation Xers probably read the paper. But now-a-days there is so many channels to get news; computer, TV, phones, radio. Which are a easier on the environment and don’t kill uncessessary trees. In fact, the Journal has an RSS feed so I don’t even have to step away from my computer to get the content from the paper, its sent to my RSS feed and I can browse through the headlines and open the articles I find interesting.