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Over in the cereal aisle two students toss each other bottles of gatorade. In the doorway, a balding man scratches at his lotto ticket, breath held in suspended anticipation. Robert places a black, plastic bucket upside down in front of one of the registers. It reads, "CLOSED," scrawled in black and orange ink across its belly (Halloween colors). The lines have disappered: the store grows suddenly quiet. Robert and Bonnie relax. Their shift only half-over, they wait casually for the next rush...
...front of the gaudy, gilt Buddhist temple we stopped, and approached a crowd of people, children mostly, who were squatting around a circular, white, plastic tub. Many small hands swirled in the tub's water. Each hand held a round, metal loop that had white filter paper stretched across its diameter. Hand and metal-paper extension followed swarms of multi-sized goldfish darting around the tub. Each hand and its loop was eager to win a fish by successfully scooping it out of the tub with the water-weakened paper net. Wise hands targeted the large schools of pinky-sized...
...felt my heart and stomach lurch and fall with the fish as it escaped an imminent confinement in plastic...
...waste-management expert at Eco-Institute, an environmental watchdog organization. "Ecological awareness in Germany is very high." He says DSD executives gave guarantees they knew could not be met. "They knew they did not have the technology in place." Wolny and others want to compel producers to cut plastic packaging by up to 50%. And the Greens, meanwhile, feel the Green Dot gives their party a bad name. They would like to banish the misleading symbol altogether...
...simple economics: too much supply (used material) and not enough demand (for recycled products). When that happens, prices drop. And have they! The average value of a ton of household waste fell from $100 in 1988 to $44 in 1992. Glass bottles rise in shiny mounds in Seattle; plastic containers fill warehouses in Johnsonville, South Carolina...