Oscar helps California fight fluorescent light pollution
What does Oscar the Grouch, the Sesame Street character who lived in a trash can, have to do with the California Environmental Protection Agency?
We discovered at the Sustainable Brands 2008 conference in Monterey that Oscar is helping the California EPA tackle the serious issue of pollution from old fluorescent light bulbs, which contain mercury.
California has created a highly innovative ‘Take-It-Back’ Partnership, fronted by Oscar, which is demonstrating the state’s firm commitment to environmental initiatives. For those in Europe who think we are doing so much more than the Americans on the environment, take a look at what California is doing.
At the conference, we heard from Leonard Robinson, chief deputy director for the EPA’s Department of Toxic Substances Control. In the video below he is talking to me about the ‘Take-It-Back partnership.
June 4th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
[…] Oscar helps California fight fluorescent light pollution By Geoff Beattie California has created a highly innovative ?Take-It-Back? Partnership, fronted by Oscar, which is demonstrating the state?s firm commitment to environmental initiatives. For those in Europe who think we are doing so much more than the … Green Wolfie - http://blog.cohnwolfe.com/greenwolfie […]
July 1st, 2008 at 10:04 am
I didn’t know what Oscar had to do with it until i read it here.thanks for enlightening me.
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Sara Lee
http://www.addictionrecovery.net/california
July 13th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
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August 3rd, 2008 at 12:17 pm
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August 14th, 2008 at 9:00 am
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