Companies, scavengers scrap over recycled paper in Japan
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TOKYO -- The paper chase starts in the blackness of early morning, a cat-and-mouse game played on Tokyo's almost empty backstreets in the hours before businessmen shake off their hangovers and commuters emerge to flood the city.
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North Americans who spend their lives reducing, reusing and recycling can keep doing their bit for the environment after they die, if Europe&#39;s &quot;green funeral&quot; trend makes its way across the Atlantic.
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Scientists have recently turned to trash in an effort to unearth organic alternatives to petrochemical plastics.
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OSLO, Norway - Arild Tofte and Kaare Heggdal know that recycling pays, but they weren't quite prepared for the jackpot that a scrapped cash machine contained. It was still full of cash. Enough to buy a house and take a luxury vacation.
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Garbage hauler Frank Treto quickly spots enough junk mail and cardboard to warrant whipping out a bright yellow warning tag, one of hundreds he's doled out since the city's mandatory recycling law took effect this year.
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By Simon Read, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Feb. 9--A discarded washing machine lies on its side along a dirt tract near Tommy's Harbor. Garbage bags and other trash have been dumped in the nearby weeds.
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Households could be charged per bag of rubbish as part of the government's plans to boost recycling.
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By Melissa McGrath, The Idaho Statesman, Boise  Sep. 22--The shelves and bins scattered throughout Second Chance Building Materials Center's store in Boise overflow with wood scraps, light-switch plates and other building materials -- including kitchen sinks.
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A Japanese mountaineer leads an expedition to the Mount Everest to retrieve tons of rubbish.
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PC Magazine - Toshiba said Tuesday that it has expanded its electronics recycling program to pay cash for used cameras, servers, mobile phones, and other products. The electronics manufacturer will also accept old notebook PCs for free.
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The United States Postal Service will begin using packaging made with recycled materials and take other steps to reduce its impact on the environment, Postmaster General John Potter said on Wednesday.
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Top TV makers have formed a recycling company to handle tech waste and comply with changing state laws.
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Envelopes containing 10,000 yen &#151; about $82 &#151; and notes wishing the finder well have been discovered in municipal toilets across Japan, media reports said, baffling civil servants and triggering a nationwide hunt.
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One man&#39;s treasure is another man&#39;s trash. Never has the butchered saying been more true than today in Hong Kong when the contents of more than 80 safety deposit boxes were dumped in a Kowloon scrapyard.
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SAN JUAN DE OBISPO, Guatemala, Sept. 9 -- Marta Aquino carefully folded four sheets of paper -- pink, green, blue and white -- then dropped them into long, clear plastic pouches Sunday in this village at the foot of the majestic Water Volcano.
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By Anonymous  Six cities in the Chinese province of Guangdong will be testing grounds to develop a "recycling economy" - picking 300 enterprises and 15 industrial parks for the program.
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For worn-out electronic gear, the end of the road could be an HP recycling plant in Roseville, Calif.Photos: HP's hardware graveyard