Ups and Downs

  

Ups Downs
  • Japanese government, for revising laws to punish all retailers who do not adequately utilize the 3 R's.
  • United Nations' Kyoto Protocol, for promoting renewable energy and reducing greenhouse gases.
  • Staples, for carrying many recycled products, and for their ink/battery recycling program.
  • A critical habitat for killer whales, proposed by the federal government.
  • Japan at large, for using "...more plastic than most societies in the world," according to a spokesperson from the Japan Polyolefin Film Industry Trade Association.
  • Outback Steakhouse, for using a gas-guzzling Hummer for their company car in some locations.
  • The timber auction in the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest, which could lead to further logging in national forests.
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