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Turkish Gov’t. Leaves Eco-Dark Ages Behind By Lending Books to Students in Bid to Save Trees and..
Written by TreeHugger   
07/15/2008
pile of books photoIn a practice I can hardly fathom, the Turkish government has been giving 155 million new textbooks each year to students, most of which are thrown into the trash at the end of the year rather than simply requiring they return them for use by next year’s crop of students. Of course there’s not only an environmental cost to this enormous waste of resources, but an...
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