Warren T. Brookes, in The Quill (Jan.-Feb. 1991), Society of Professional Journalists, P.O. Box 77, Greencastle, Ind. 46135-0077.
When McDonald's Corp. agreed last fall to abort its program to recycle the polysty- rene cartons it uses for its hamburgers, and to go back instead to using coated pa- perboard, some environmentalists and journalists hailed the decision as "good news for the planet." In reality, says Brookes, a Washington-based editorial writer for the Detroit News, the hamburger...