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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Just for fun:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="http://www.theonion.com/content/news/new_eco_friendly_packaging">http://www.theonion.com/content/news/new_eco_friendly_packaging</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>New Eco-Friendly Packaging
Triggers Boom In Guilt-Free Littering<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>The Onion (July 21, 2007)
Issue 43•29 </content/index/4329> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on"><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>ROCKFORD</span></font></st1:City><font size=2
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>, <st1:State
w:st="on">IL</st1:State></span></font></st1:place><font size=2
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>—Nick
Sundin used to be neurotic about littering. The 37-year-old pediatrician admits
he kept trash bags in his car, and would even pick up and throw away garbage he
found on the street. Since boyhood, Sundin said, he was keenly attuned to the
environmental degradation littering caused, an attitude triggered by the famous
Keep America Beautiful "Crying Indian" public service announcement he
saw on television as a young man.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Not anymore.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>"These 'eco' products
are amazing—they've totally changed my life," Sundin said.
"Now, I just toss my used Seventh Generation–brand paper plates out
the car window, knowing they'll soon be absorbed into the earth."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>The growing
"green" trend in product packaging, which emphasizes the use of
recycled, biodegradable post-consumer paper-based materials and relies less on
petroleum-derived polymers like styrofoam, has unleashed a spontaneous trashing
of sidewalks, roadsides, and pristine wilderness by gratified consumers. Though
some environmentalists and scientists were caught off guard by the movement,
experts say it is here to stay.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>"The stigma attached to
littering is at long last being put to rest," industry analyst Tom
Schneider said. "As long as manufacturers are packaging their goods in
unbleached paper and biodegradable, cornstarch-based plastics, more and more
consumers will discard their refuse wherever they please, knowing it will
safely decompose within 10 to 20 years. Call it the 'New Compost.'"<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>"PITCH OUT."
Environmentally conscious consumers litter a <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">New Mexico</st1:place></st1:State> roadside with earth-safe
eco-waste.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>The reaction from
"neo-litterbugs" like Sundin has been nothing less than ecstatic.
Highway littering shot up 6 percent nationwide in the last weeks of 2006,
shortly after retail giant Wal-Mart announced its intention to encourage its
tens of thousands of suppliers worldwide to reduce packaging materials.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>And now that McDonald's is
incorporating post-consumer materials into some of its packaging, Golden
Arches–decorated wrappers and cups are becoming common sites in public
parks, residential districts, Civil War battlegrounds, peregrine falcon nesting
boxes, and coastal tide pools. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Consumers are also growing
more packaging-conscious, checking containers and boxes for recycled and
post-consumer content to ensure that, once used, they can be properly wasted. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Receiving a decorative metal
tin of cheese popcorn on Administrative Professionals Day in April delighted <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Miramar</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">FL</st1:State></st1:place>
medical records supervisor Donna Kern. Finding out that the tin contained 80
percent recycled material delighted her even more.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>"I never used to know
what to do with those tins, so they just created clutter in my home," Kern
said. "But when I saw that this one was made of recycled metal and
nontoxic paint, I went and sank it in the <st1:place w:st="on">Everglades</st1:place>.
Now I'm going through my home to see what other environmentally friendly things
I can throw away or burn. Caring about nature has never been so fun."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Eco-littering, however, is
just one of the ways the public is embracing the green idea. The growing
popularity of flex-fuel cars, which can run on regular gasoline or the
ethanol-hydrocarbon compound known as E85, means more people can enjoy
old-fashioned Sunday joyrides and short drives to the neighborhood supermarket
without fretting about wasting nonrenewable fuel. Compact fluorescent
lightbulbs now save the trouble of turning off lights. And cleaner-burning
fuels and sustainable energy sources such as wind and solar power are making
the longtime dream of running household appliances at all hours a reality.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>"Since they began
discussing the construction of that offshore wind farm, I don't worry about
leaving my air conditioner and television on for my cats when I go away," <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Worcester</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">MA</st1:State></st1:place>
retiree Herk Ellroy said. "They can get very hot. And lonely."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>The new prevalence of
eco-friendly packaging is the culmination of a decades-long struggle between
environmentalists and the business community. Still, some activists are
dissatisfied with the results. To curb the new littering, the Sierra Club is
now suggesting that all consumer packaging be coated with a toxic,
nonbiodegradable polymer all consumer packaging be coated with a toxic,
nonbiodegradable polymer that would kill wildlife and poison groundwater unless
products were disposed of in heavy plastic garbage bags.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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