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TAMOUNG, Cambodia – Nget Loun’s rickety old thatched house is typical of Cambodia’s impoverished countryside, but it holds a surprise inside: a state of the art, environmentally friendly gas stove. Link: http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/11762975.htm

The Lakeland recycling office is collecting out-of-date phone books through March 25. Link to full article

The Lakeland recycling office is collecting out-of-date phone books through March 25. Link: http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050129/NEWS/501290373/1004

Three years after the closing of the mammoth Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island, the Bloomberg administration has drawn up a 20-year plan to deal with the city’s residential waste by shipping the bulk of it elsewhere by barge, officials who have been briefed on the plan said yesterday. Link …

Three years after the closing of the mammoth Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island, the Bloomberg administration has drawn up a 20-year plan to deal with the city’s residential waste by shipping the bulk of it elsewhere by barge, officials who have been briefed on the plan said yesterday. Link: …

MONTREAL — Iogen Corp., a Canadian firm at the forefront of efforts to turn agricultural waste into ethanol, is expected to announce today that it has become the first supplier of such biofuel to the commercial fuel market, Wednesdays Wall Street Journal reported Link: #

The Lakeland recycling office is collecting out-of-date phone books through March 25. Link:

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You would probably imagine that New York City with its dense 8.2 million population and towering apartment blocks would struggle to cope with recycling. So how does it compare to London and its 7.6 million residents? Link:

Highly efficient fluorescent light bulbs are widely touted as environmentally friendly, but they have created a recycling headache for the EPA and local governments. More often than not, their toxic ingredients simply end up in landfills, where the chemicals can leach into soil and water and poison fish and other …