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"Bamboo, cork, natural fiber carpets, carpets made from partially or fully recyclable materials, reclaimed or rediscovered wood, and natural linoleum are among the many flooring materials now available to you. Refer to page 257 of the resources section at the end of the book for an extensive list of safe, attractive flooring options. Lighting. Practical, energy-efficient alternatives to standard light bulbs, called compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs), are now widely available in a variety of sizes and shapes." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "Most communities routinely pick up these recyclable materials. Inform other parents of the days and times these pickups occur and encourage them to begin a recycling program in their homes as well. If your neighborhood doesn't have regular recycling pickups, find a recycling center near you and take recyclable products there yourself. Or, even better, lobby your local government to improve its recycling policies. Make sure your office and schools have adequate recycling programs in place as well. And if you have a backyard, consider starting a compost pile for organic kitchen waste." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"The industrial facility, in operation since 1927, had also been used as a paint coating operation, a tire warehouse, and, most recently, an automobile operation that dismantled cars for their recyclable materials." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"ELV further requires that manufacturers take responsibility for disposing of their cars —a powerful incentive to reach those goals of recyclable materials. The directive also bans the use of four toxic heavy metals that have long been prevalent in cars: cadmium, chromium, mercury, and lead.2' The automobile industry was being forced to look warily toward Europe, just as its peers in the electronics industry were doing. "We've been hit by a tsunami," is how Michael Taubitz, the global safety officer for General Motors, put it to me from his office outside Detroit." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.)

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