Diaper Firm Cleans UpDy-Dee Diaper Service, which...
Diaper Firm Cleans Up
Dy-Dee Diaper Service, which brings ecologically correct coverings to thousands of little Southern California bottoms each week, is informing customers that it has fixed a nagging chink in its green armor.
The plastic bags that protect each delivery of clean diapers from the elements and other things that might prematurely soil them are now recyclable. Customers have to take the bags to mobile recycling bins or to the many supermarkets and drugstores that recycle such low-density polyethylene bags.
“It’s a small step,” said Brian O’Neal, president of the Pasadena-based company. What’s more, the notice to customers was printed on recycled paper, and the bags are delivered by trucks that run on clean-burning compressed natural gas.
Disney Less Colorful
Something is missing from some copies of Walt Disney Co.’s 1989 annual report that were mailed out recently, and it isn’t fairy dust. Instead of being printed in glorious living color, the reports come only in dreary black and white.
On the cover, the report touts “35 Years of Magic” in celebrating the anniversary of Disneyland.
But Disney contritely apologized for the lack of color in an enclosed note, explaining that it ran out of the original reports and reprinted in black and white “to make more available as quickly as possible.”
Maybe they should have called Ted Turner for some colorizing tips.
The Greening of Kuwait
If there’s one thing you might expect from a magazine put out by professional planners, it’s good planning.
Alas, the August issue of California Planner didn’t quite make it. Cover story: The Greening of Kuwait. “Once-barren landscapes will soon be lush with greenery like this plaza in front of a Kuwait mosque,” an earnest photo caption proclaimed in the story that was prepared before Iraq’s Aug. 2 invasion.
To be fair, magazine editors often have their plans thrown awry by late-breaking events.
The article--published by the California chapter of the American Planning Assn.--went on to describe Kuwaiti officials’ quest to beautify their arid nation by planting greenery.
Mickey Mouse in glorious black and white.
