Deconsume! Recycle!

American Reusable Textile Association Largo, FL; 813/531-6698. Members include fiber producers and mills, fabricators, distributors and processors, laundry equipment and supplies manufacturers. Geared toward hospitals and industrial users. Reusable textile products are environmentally safer and less expensive than disposables. Brochure: The Responsible Choice.

Materials for the Future Foundation San Francisco, CA; 415/561-6530. Mining biowaste as a material for community development. Job creation and waste diversion, not necessarily paper.

Stop Junk Mail Forever Good Advice Press, Elizaville, NY, 914/758-1400. Tells exactly how to get off, and stay off, every unwanted direct mail and telemarketing list. Your family receives thirty pounds of unsolicited mail each year. Direct mailers gobble sixty-eight million trees per year and swallow up twenty-eight million gallons of ink. Half the received envelopes are never opened. We pay $320 million incinerating, landfilling, and recycling. Read this, drop out of junk mail.

National Resources Defense Council New York, NY; 212/727-2700; nrdcinfo@nrdc.org, www.nrdc.org. Best community development project to recycle urban waste wood.

Sheppard Envelope Company Worcester, MA; 800/325-6622. "Boomerang" mailing system with sixty to seventy percent paper reduction.

Tension Envelope Company Kansas City, MO; 816/471-3800. FedEx's Send-n-Return supplier.

Stu Heinecke Creative Services Seattle, WA; 206/286-8668. Total use, no waste direct mailing.

Environmental Defense Fund Paper Task Force New York, NY, 212/505-2100, 800/684-3322. Corporate paper recycling for beginners.

The Recycled Paper Coalition Palo Alto, CA; 415/985-5568, rpc@igc.apc.org. Orienting offices and businesses toward politically correct enviro paper use.

WoodWise Consumer initiative Co-op America, San Francisco, CA; 415/896-1580. Exposing the link between consumption and deforestation, and providing practical tactics and alternative sources that reduce wood consumption.

National Recycling Coalition Washington, DC; 202/625-6406.

New Building and Construction Materials Straw and Other Fibers

WheatBoard PrimeBoard, Inc., Wahpeton, ND; 701/642-6026; fax 701/642-1352. Industrial grade particle board made from wheat straw. seven to ten percent lighter than traditional particle board, sixty percent more moisture resistant. Targeted for use in furniture, cabinets, store fixtures, etc.

Agriboard Building System Agriboard Industries, Fairfield, IA; 515/472-0363; fax 515/472-0018. Heat-compressed wheat and rice straw panels -- no toxic chemicals used in manufacture. Framing lumber for building construction reduced by up to ninety percent.

Easiboard/Easiwall Pierce International, Inc. (US distributors for Stramit Industries), Englewood, CO; 303/792-0719, fax 303/799-6469. Single component, non-loadbearing domestic partitioning system (o.k., think drywall), made from highly compressed wheat, rye, rice, and barley straw with no synthetic additives. High acoustic and thermal insulation and high fire resistance.

Out on Bale Tucson, AZ, 520/624-1673. Promotes development of straw bate construction.

Plyboo Smith & Fong Company, San Francisco, CA; 415/285-8230. Laminated flooring, wall paneling, and counter-top material made of two thin layers of bamboo.

Eco Timber international San Francisco, CA; 415/864-4900.

Sea Star Trading Co. Newport, OR; 503/265-9616. Both are suppliers of high density lumber board made from coconut palm, for flooring, columns, and furniture.

Composites

Environ Phenix Biocomposites, Inc., St. Peter, MN; 800/324-8187. Decorative surface material comprised of bio-based resin, cellulose fiber from recycled paper products, and color additives, Looks like natural stone when finished but cuts and fabricates like wood; twice as hard as red oak, half the weight of granite with better abrasion resistance. For interior, non-structural use only.

Resincore Rodman Industries, Marinette, WI; 715/735-9500. A formaldehyde-free particleboard composed of sawdust, phenolic resin, and wax, used for general interior construction.

Recycled Waste Wood and Other Products

Evanite Fiber Corporation Corvallis, OR; 41/753-1211. Manufacturer of 1/8-1/4" panels (hardboard, pegboard) made from recycled urban waste, pallets, shelves, and industrial spools.

Gridcore Panel Products Gridcore Systems International, Long Beach, CA; 562/901-1492, fax 562/901-1499. Strong, lightweight, and formaldehyde-free honeycomb panels made from 100 percent post-consumer-waste paper and card-board, as well as various agricultural fibers. Really coot stuff. Used for furniture, cabinets, stage sets, store fixture, product exhibits, etc.

Homasote Co. West Trenton, NJ; 609/883-3300. They take 250 to 350 tons of old newspaper a day and turn it into panels. That's about 70,000 tons of wastepaper a year. Uses range from carpet underlayment to structural roofing.

Re-Fiber Products Wood Recycling, Inc., Woburn, MA; 617/937-0855. Various combinations of wood fiber and recycled newsprint paper mulch for use in hydraulic seeding.

Thermo-ply Simplex Products, Adrian, MI; 517/263-8881. Fiberboards from 100 percent recycled cardboard boxes, office and mill waste, manufacturing scrap, etc.

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