The Globe and Mail , Nov 10,1997 Business too is recognizing that change is needed. A group of Fortune 500 companies in the U.S. is launching a major advertising campaign promoting the idea that solutions should be found that can maintain a healthy economy and environment. Second, there are steps businesses can and should be taking now. Third, the Kyoto agreement represents a first step in the international process, but more must be done. Fourth, we can make significant progress in addressing climate change and sustain economic growth in the United States.
Paper makes up a third of that waste and yard waste makes up about another third.
It's my tax dollars that are paying for that burial. I've been in this business now for almost nineteen years and we live in such a wasteful society it makes me sick. But we are improving. Below, we print the text of their warning verbatim. Publication of the original statement was organized by the Union of Concerned Scientists in Cambridge, Massachusetts.