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Body Shop's 300 products derive mainly from plants and are not tested on animals. They come in simple plastic bottles that can be taken back to any one of its 464 stores, most of them franchises, for a discount on the next purchase. The shops boast distinctive wood decoration, but endangered tropical hardwoods are banned. Store-window displays protest the slaughter of whales and the dumping of wastes in the North Sea, and leaflets urge customers to help save the ozone layer. Roddick insists that her stores use recycled paper for everything from stationery to toilet tissue...
...York State law requiring stores to pay refunds on returned bottles and cans has taken away some of R2B2's business, but the facility, which will earn . nearly $3 million in revenues this year, cannot begin to meet the demand for such materials as plastic and glass. Similar trash-taming plants have gone up in numerous cities, including Newark, Miami and Philadelphia...
...year the European Community and the U.S. tentatively agreed to push for a complete ban by the end of the century. The task now is to translate that understanding into a formal treaty, which should include all nations, especially the Soviet Union and East European countries. In the meantime, plastic-foam manufacturers in the U.S. say they will stop using CFCs in their products, and Vermont has decreed that the chemicals must be eliminated from auto air-conditioners in new cars sold in the state after 1993. Major CFC suppliers like Du Pont are developing substitutes that are much less...
...damage that beach litter does to marine life, promotes her cause at churches, schools, clubs and conferences. Her message seems to be getting through. At least one oil company has banned Styrofoam cups on its drilling rigs in the Gulf. And next year Texas will require codes on plastic bottles to identify the type of material they are made of, a measure that will make recycling easier...
...lunchtime at Thomasville High School in North Carolina, and most students are thinking about the food piling up on their trays. Not Brian Styers, a 16- year-old honors student. He is thinking about the trays themselves -- and the nondegradable plastic used to make them. Bothered by the fact that school- issued Styrofoam trays, plates and cups were choking the local landfill, Styers and a dozen or so like-minded students began marching through the cafeteria earlier this year carrying reusable dishes brought from home. They were branded "tree huggers" and "crazy," but Styers and his friends persisted. They...