Business_Spotlight_No_04_August__

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hen it comes to recycling, Ihere's lots of room for im·

provement This is especially Irue of the American m

atjon jndustrv. According 10 enyironmenta! groups, about 75

percent of .tram from airports and airlines cou!d be recycled

• but only about 20 percent actually iso
  As consumers and industry employees become more aware
  of Ihe problem, they are making an effort to change Ihe cur-
  rent situation. "li does not make sense to acquire oil from
  the Middle East or Ihe North Siope of A!aska and l urn it into
  a plastic bottle, use it once, and throw il away," scient ist
  Allen Hershkowitz of the Natural Resources Oefense Coun-
  cillold The New York limes.
  There are 552 commercial ai rports in the U.S., and each
  of them has its own system for handling waste, according to
  Nancy Young, vice president of environmenta! affairs for the
  Air Transport Association. "The ~ is very local," Young
  says. "Ooes the city have the infrastructure? Are they work-
  ing to make Ihat available? Can we gel over secyr jty issues
  to get to Ihe airplane and iJkIs....u..tl?"
  Meanwhile, Conl inental Airlines is increasing ils recycling
  efforts. The airline says the move comes in response 10 pres-
  sure !rom beth statt and cuslemers.

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ondon is an expensive city, Londen renls are astronom-

kai, and artisls 1e.ru1 to be poor. The solution? SQ.u..a1:

1i.ng empty buildings. The Oubliette, a group ef London-

!la2d artisls, is making a n.a.m.e. for ilself, not necessarily

through its work but by occupying empty propertjes i n

upmarket parts of lown, like Mayfair and Leicester Square.

Sut Dan Simen, Ihe group's sookesmao, insisls Ihal Ihey

are not ordinary SQuatters. Rather, he sees The Oubliette's

"resjdencies", as they cal! them, as a service to the laru1:

.l.!lli1s. The recession means that a tot of offices stand emp-

ty. "This invites oime," Si mon leid The Daily Telegraph,

adding thai unoccupied buildings eften fall into disrepajr.

The group wanls property magnales to lend them space in

which to hold exhjbjtions, plays, concerts and art classes.

As the group of artists sees it, the arrangement is a rti.n::

wjn proposjtioo: The Oubliette can work without having to

werry about lIlMlrul, and the buildings are kept in ~.

"It's an alternative way of offer ing extraordinarily wealthy

people a way to contribute to the arts without an enormous

oecunjarv investment," Simen told The Guardian.

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