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Green Restaurant Association

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The GRA's model provides a convenient way for all sectors of the restaurant industry, which represents 10% of the U.S. economy, to become more environmentally sustainable. The GRA utilizes a collaborative strategy that involves restaurants, manufacturers, vendors, grassroots organizations, government, media, and restaurant customers. Certified restaurants must meet the following standards: 1. Use a comprehensive recycling system for all products that are accepted by local recycling companies. 2. Free of polystyrene foam ("Styrofoam") products. 3. Commit to completing four Environmental Steps per year of membership. 4. Complete at least one Environmental Step after joining the GRA.

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The Artterro Paint With Wool Portrait Kit is a perfect introduction to the art of needle felting. Very satisfying and easy to do, simply poke colorful roving wool into the base shape with a felting needle to paint pictures of anything you can imagine. No glue or sewing required. Create four 4-inch masterpieces! This eco art kit provides hours of fun with friends & family, and it includes a bonus project--the box turns into a frame for your finished artwork! Includes natural wool felt canvases, 13 colors of roving wool, felting needles, ideas and instructions. You provide towel or foam pad to work on. Assembled at Goodwill Industries of South-Central Wisconsin. Ages 8 and up.

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When you see the DfE logo on a product it means that the DfE scientific review team has screened each ingredient for potential human health and environmental effects and that-based on currently available information, EPA predictive models, and expert judgment-the product contains only those ingredients that pose the least concern among chemicals in their class. EPA's Design for the Environment Program (DfE) has allowed use of their logo on hundreds of products. These products attempt to use the safest possible ingredients and, in 2007, reduced the use of "chemicals of concern" by 80 million pounds, up from 59 million pounds in 2006.

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