[CPEO-BIF] Steel Yard, Providence, Rhode Island

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Steel Yard Shows How Reuse Trumps Recycling

By DAVE FISHER
ecoRI News
June 26, 2012

PROVIDENCE - It may look to some that the folks at the Steel Yard  
need to mow the lawn, but the overgrown grasses, trees and shrubs on  
the property are part of an integrated stormwater mitigation plan.

From steel mills to locomotive manufacturers, Rhode Island's capital  
city has a long history of industrialism. While that industrialism  
gave rise to booming economics in the late 19th and early 20th  
centuries, few of those big mills and businesses remain today.  
Unfortunately, due mostly to ignorance, those manufacturers and mills  
have left much of the city’s - and state’s - soil and ground water  
contaminated, or at least potentially contaminated.

It was with a tip of the hat to those industries that made Providence  
economically great that the Steel Yard was founded in 2002, but the  
folks who started the nonprofit artists collective also wanted to  
acknowledge the legacy of environmental degradation that heavy  
manufacturing had on Rhode Island’s resources.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.ecori.org/front-page-journal/2012/6/26/steel-yard-shows- 
how-reuse-trumps-recycling.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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