When we at TIME registered our environmental concern by naming the endangered earth as Planet of the Year for 1988, we began to look in our own backyard. Last year the Time Inc. Magazine Co. set up the Magazine Environment Task Force to seek out more environment-friendly ways to produce more than 1 billion copies of 25 publications that the company prints annually.
As part of that effort, a six-member action group established at TIME promptly dubbed itself the Green Team and began teaching fellow employees how to separate their trash for recycling. More than eight tons of high-grade ^ white...