Sunday, October 25, 2009
· Filed under Environment
This is a “tax” that I could support in my own cash strapped state of Tennessee.
By JACK HEALY Published: October 24, 2009
Starting Saturday, the strapped New York State government will be able to start collecting tens of millions of dollars from deposits on bottled water, after a federal judge’s ruling.
On Friday, the judge lifted an injunction that had blocked the state from going forward with a law. Advocates say the new deposits will encourage recycling and provide as much as $115 million to the state.
Distributors would collect the deposits from customers, and the state would receive 80 percent of all unclaimed deposits.
In May, a group of bottled-water companies filed a lawsuit to prevent the deposit law from taking effect, saying it was unconstitutional because it excluded drinks with added sugar.
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Tags: New York | Environment | Recycling | bottled water
Thursday, October 15, 2009
· Filed under Environment
This is horrible news. We need to improve urban forest. I hope the New York police catch the offenders.
My home town is working hard to add trees to urban areas, too. I have not heard of any vandalism yet.
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By Tina Susman
October 15, 2009
Reporting from New York – The chain-saw killer struck in the dead of night, targeting young victims in a public park. Locals out for a Sunday walk found the remains the next morning: 12 oak and cherry saplings, their slender trunks sawed through, their delicate branches dangling like broken limbs above the freshly tilled soil.
It was the fourth tree-killing this year in Juniper Valley Park in Queens. Police went door to door looking for clues. Civic leaders offered a $2,500 reward for information leading to the culprit in the Sept. 13 attack. The case remains unresolved, as do seven other tree-slaying incidents across New York City this year.
In February, a huge cottonwood was found with a basketball-sized hole gouged in its trunk in Manhattan’s Inwood Hill Park. In June, nearly 60 young trees were yanked from the soil and left for dead in the same park, two months after being planted on Earth Day.
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Tags: New York | Environment | Brooklyn | TREES | Ancient Trees Special Coverage
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
· Filed under Environment
This is an interesting story from the UK. I have surveyed fast food litter in the United States. I found that more McDonald trash is found on the sides of the roadways than any other brand. The same was found to be true in the UK in a separate study.
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London, October 5 (ANI): People behind the wheels of Ford are most likely to throw litter from their vehicles in the UK, suggests a survey.
Keep Britain Tidy found over 1,000 instances of people, especially those in the South East, creating litter from a Ford followed by just over 300 sightings from a BMW.
Phil Barton, Chief Executive of Keep Britain Tidy, thinks that littering from a car should be treated as a motoring offence.
“Car littering is disgusting, detrimental to the environment and dangerous,” the Telegraph quoted him as saying.
“Through campaigning on this issue, we now have information that is valuable and important to our goal of influencing the law makers and the manufacturers to make a positive change towards ending this problem,” he added. (ANI)
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Tags: Environment | Recycling | LITTER | Ford drivers | London Britain Township
