Comments on: Green is the New Black http://blog.betterworldbooks.com/2008/08/04/green-is-the-new-black/ Book reviews, author interviews, industry news and more from the online bookstore with a soul. Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:57:03 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Erik http://blog.betterworldbooks.com/2008/08/04/green-is-the-new-black/comment-page-1/#comment-2728 Erik Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:43:26 +0000 http://www.betterworldblog.com/PermaLink,guid,6883fcf9-be71-4e86-9651-dc71facb61ea.aspx#comment-2728 Better World books is as much of a greenwasher as anyone. Look at the top of this page: "X millions of books saved from landfills". At best, BWB saves books from being recycled and offers them for another user. The greatest source of BWB's inventory comes from library withdrawals, which are universally recycled now. As often as not BWB books are diverted from local resellers and trucked to a central location. The shipping carbon offsets offered by BWB, at the buyer's expense, cover the shipping from Indiana to the buyer, not the extra shipping from the local location to the central warehouse, or the shipping of books that BWB ends up pulping, that could have been pulped locally. Please examine BWB's process. The first to cry out "greenwasher" is not necessarily the one without fault. Better World books is as much of a greenwasher as anyone. Look at the top of this page: “X millions of books saved from landfills”. At best, BWB saves books from being recycled and offers them for another user. The greatest source of BWB’s inventory comes from library withdrawals, which are universally recycled now. As often as not BWB books are diverted from local resellers and trucked to a central location. The shipping carbon offsets offered by BWB, at the buyer’s expense, cover the shipping from Indiana to the buyer, not the extra shipping from the local location to the central warehouse, or the shipping of books that BWB ends up pulping, that could have been pulped locally. Please examine BWB’s process. The first to cry out “greenwasher” is not necessarily the one without fault.

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