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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (6450)	9/18/2007 8:50:06 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24234

Want not, waste not is the next green step Scott Learn, Portland Oregonia Oregon looks at a garbage-reduction strategy to stop trash before it happens by curbing the urge to consume --- Now that Oregonians are good at recycling, state officials are edging toward a far tougher Step 2: Stop buying so much stuff in the first place. People are buying and throwing out more than ever -- roughly a ton and a half for every Oregonian each year -- and even Oregon's much touted recycling rates can't keep up. Add the state's expanding population, and you get a pileup. And you get potential failure to meet Oregon's freshly minted goals for curbing greenhouse gases. To cut consumption and waste, and the manufacturing emissions at the front end, regulators are writing a strategy that suggests people consider smaller houses, avoid cramming their homes with junk, try drinking water from the tap instead of plastic bottles, buy used instead of new, repair things that break, downsize that big-ticket remodeling project. The payoff from tamping down consumer cravings could be big, reducing global warming, saving forests. But tinkering with lifestyles -- and the consumer economy -- is risky business. (17 September 2007)http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/118983760562650.xml&coll=7