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Dog waste contaminates our waterways: A new test could reveal how big the problem is
Americans love their dogs, but they don’t always love to pick up after them. And that’s a problem. Dog feces left on the ground wash into waterways, sometimes carrying bacteria — including antibiotic-resistant strains — that can make people sick. Now scientists have developed a new genetic test to figure out how much dogs are contributing to this health concern, according to a report in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology.
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Smelly, contaminated, full of disease: the world’s open dumps are growing
Almost 40% of the world’s waste ends up in huge rubbish tips, mostly found near urban populations in poor countries, posing a serious threat to human health and the environment
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Sweden is Now Recycling 99 Percent of its Trash. Here's how
It would serve Americans greatly to take a page out of Sweden’s book about recycling their waste.
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Mountain of Vancouver garbage that ended up in Manila has Philippines demanding Canada repatriate its 'junk'
A small mountain of Vancouver garbage rotting on the Manila waterfront has morphed into a diplomatic row as Philippine authorities demand Canada repatriate its “junk.”
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Bill Gates Will Drink Water Made From Poo To Prove New Sanitation Tech Works
After watching this video, no one should doubt Bill Gates’ commitment to raising awareness of the issues around sanitation and its importance to economic and social development in emerging markets. In the video, Gates drinks water made from human waste to prove that the technology developed by Janicki Bioenergy, a small engineering firm based outside of Seattle, works. Sanitation in developing countries is a huge problem. Poor waste disposal causes the deaths of hundreds...
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The Ganges: a holy, deadly river
Pollution has turned the sacred waters into a lethal cocktail of industrial and human waste. Can the river be saved? Nearly 13,000ft up in the foothills of the Himalayas, Amod Panwar, an Indian hotel owner and devout Hindu, reverently places offerings of almonds, sultanas and a coconut into the water cascading from an icy cavern known as Gaumukh, the “cow’s mouth”.
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World's Mountain of Electrical Waste Reaches New Peak of 42m Tonnes
The biggest per-capita tallies were in countries known for environmental consciousness, such as Norway and Denmark, with Britain fifth and US ninth on the UN list.
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Our Homeless, Explosive Radioactive Waste
A formidable glitch occurred just as the United States prepares to embark on a multi-billion-dollar program to restart production of nuclear weapons. An explosion at an underground waste dump in New Mexico—complete with some sky-high kitty litter—is highlighting the dangers inherent not only in the weapons of mass destruction themselves but in the deadly wastes their development has left over the past 75 years.
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Adidas Has Created A Shoe Made Entirely From Ocean Trash
Adidas, in partnership with a nonprofit called Parley for the Oceans, has created a shoe that is made entirely from ocean trash and creates zero waste. The company plans to release a line of shoes made like this later this year.
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European Parliament urges donation of supermarket leftovers
The European Parliament on Thursday (9 July) urged EU countries to cut down on waste by getting supermarkets to give their unsold food to charities, rather than destroy it.
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Waste-Based Biofuels Going Into United Passenger Planes This Summer
United Airlines is partnering with California-based Fulcrum Bioenergy to make alternative jet fuel from food scraps, farm waste, and animal fat.
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Photos of foreign tourists cleaning up beach lay bare Vietnam's littering problem
Photos of two foreign tourists picking up trash on a beach in northern Vietnam have gone viral on the Internet recently, prompting criticism on the notoriously bad littering habit among many locals. The photos show two women on Cat Ba Beach in Hai Phong City, with one down on her knees and another wading in the water to clean up the beach. Many tourists are either swimming or relaxing on the background.
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Excellent infographic shows why we must say no to plastic
With our plastic dependency growing and rate of recycling decreasing, it's crucial to make the tough but necessary switch to reusables.
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Arizona cities fall well below national average recycling rate
Phoenix's residential landfill diversion rate in the 2014-15 fiscal year was 20%.
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K-Cup recycling offered by Wheaton's furniture in Moncton
A furniture store is giving Moncton-area residents the chance to recycle K-Cups and help create jobs for people with disabilities in the Maritimes. Wheaton's furniture has launched a pilot project to recycle the convenient coffee cups and at the same time, create jobs for people who are disabled. The single-use cups are popular, but the handy coffee pods generate a significant amount of waste.
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The Violent Afterlife of a Recycled Plastic Bottle
What happens after you toss it into the bin? By Debra Winter.
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The Violent Afterlife of a Recycled Plastic Bottle
What happens after you toss it into the bin? Most of us do not think much about recycling. We might clean bottles and jars, crush cartons and break down boxes. We might sort these items into their designated bins or bags, but once we lose sight of the recyclables, the rest of the process is an abstraction. Recycling makes us feel good, but few of us know what actually happens to a plastic bottle after we drop it into a bin.
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Is it time to rethink recycling?
Criticize recycling and you may as well be using a fume-spewing chainsaw to chop down ancient redwoods, as far as most environmentalists are concerned. But recent research into the environmental costs and benefits and some tough-to-ignore market realities have even the most ardent of recycling fans questioning the current system.
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1300 On The Move
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Calling the U.S. Navy’s Littoral Combat a ‘Frigate’ Doesn’t Make It Any Less Crappy
Watchdog agency slams up-gunned Littoral Combat Ship. By David Axe.
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