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Interesting News Tidbits (updated 12/18/09)

• The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is sponsoring a video contest looking for filmmakers and students to produce short, creative videos highlighting the "Three Rs" — reduce, reuse, recycle — with awards including cash prizes of up to $2,500. The EPA will be accepting video submissions through February 16, 2010.
  
  "What we buy, use, and throw away contributes over 40 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States," said Jeff Scott, director of the EPA's Waste Management Division for the Pacific Southwest Region, in a press release announcing the contest. "We want to get the message out about how important it is for each of us to take personal action to help the environment."
  
  Details about the contest are available at http://tinyurl.com/epacontest.

• Helping out with the deluge of unwanted electronics sure to follow the holiday season, the Electronic TakeBack Coalition is offering www.goodrecyclers.com, an online one-stop take-back shop for those looking for responsible processors and manufacturers' collection programs around the country.

• The American Forest & Paper Association released updated workplace and community recycling guides

• Every month, Resource Recycling features a column on the most interesting recycled products on the market and, just in time for your last-minute holiday buying, we put together a list of consumer products containing recycled content. Click here to see the column.