Landfills

READ: Southern California's Garbage Mountain

Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Garbology, Video, Trash Mountain, Landfills, Puente Hills Landfill, Edward Humes Garbology, Garbage Mountain, Green-Living, Garbology Book, American Garbage, Puente Hills Garbology, Edward Humes, Garbage, Green News

This is an excerpt from "Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash," an exploration of garbage and its place in America, by Edward Humes. The book i...

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Southeast Louisiana Turns to Greener, Grocery Bag Options

Susan Buchanan | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: Whole Foods Market, Robert Fresh Market, New Orleans, Breaux Mart, Landfills, Boustead Consulting & Associates, Tulane University, Louisiana State University, Paper, River Birch Inc., California, Recycling, Louisiana Wildlife Federation, Fish, Greenhouse Gases, Plastic, Rouses Enterprises, Louisiana Dept. Of Wildlife and Fisheries, Northern Pacific Gyre, Green News
Susan Buchanan

Unless they're recycled or sent to landfill, plastic bags slowly degrade outdoors, often reaching the ocean and interfering with life there. So how are local stores and shoppers dealing with grocery bags today?

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Survey Says... Convenience Is the Name of the Recycling Game

Mattias Wallander | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Recycling, Environment, Sustainability, Textiles, Landfills, Landfill Waste, Recycled Clothing, Recycling Centers, Thrift Store, Textile Recycling, Recycle Clothing, Green News
Mattias Wallander

While we're out improving access to textile recycling in communities across the country, we are sometimes confronted with the notion that thrift stores and charities already collect most unwanted clothing. The facts don't support that line of thinking.

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Why Ban Textiles From Landfills?

Mattias Wallander | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Recycling, Environment, Sustainability, Landfills, Textiles, Global Warming, Landfill Waste, Green News
Mattias Wallander

We need to change our mindset and accept that recyclables encompass far more than just the bottles and cans we are so accustomed to tossing in the trusty blue bin.

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Mexico City Closes World's Largest Trash Dump

AP | Posted 02.18.2012

Read More: Mexico Garbage Dumps, Video, Landfills, Mexico City, Dumps, Bordo Poniente, Bordo Poniente Closed, Mexico, World's Largest Garbage Dump, Mexico City Trash Dump, Mexico City Trash Dump Closing, Garbage Dumps, Ap, Green News

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico City will close one of the world's largest garbage dumps by Dec. 31 and will instead turn the garbage from millions of peo...

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Green Jobs Are a Must for a Strong Economy

Mattias Wallander | Posted 01.30.2012

Read More: Epa, Green Jobs, Landfills, Clothes Recycling, Climate Change, Landfill Bans, Textile Recycling, Recycling, Textiles Ban, Recycling Electronics, Clean Economy, Green News
Mattias Wallander

I expect that in order to move the recycling needle significantly forward we need our legislators to step up to the plate and actually ban the disposal of materials that can and therefore should be recycled 100 percent.

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ANOTHER Colo. Town Bans Plastic Bags, Sets Fee For Paper

AP | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Video, Landfills, Paper Bag Fee, Plastic Waste, Aspen Bans Plastic Bags, Aspen News, Boulder Considering Ban on Plastic Bags, Aspen Colorado, Plastic Bag Ban, Plastic Bag Fee, Colorado Cities Banning Plastic Bags, Denver News

ASPEN, Colo. -- The Aspen City Council has voted to ban plastic bags from the Colorado mountain resort town's two grocery stores and place a 20-cent f...

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Brazil's Garbage Becomes an Olympic Challenge

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 10.09.2011

Read More: Lula, Sao Paulo, Pollution, Dilma, Brazil, Methane, Epa, Recycling, Landfills, Dengue Fever, Environmental Protection Agency, World Wildlife Federation, Smog, 2016 Rio Olympics, Sustainability, FIFA 2014 World Cup, Rio De Janeiro, World News
Eric Ehrmann

With the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Rio Olympics putting the world's 5th largest economy in the global spotlight waste collection and disposal is a problem the land of the samba can't dance around.

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In Alaska, a Dirty Fight Over Clean Water

AlaskaDispatch.com | Posted 09.12.2011

Read More: Environmental Protection Agency, Alaska, Landfills, Fecal Matter, Disease, Washington DC, Green Living, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Justice Department, Bacteria, Unalaska, Green News
AlaskaDispatch.com

A small island fishing community 800 air miles southwest of Anchorage has found itself in a monster of a fight with federal enforcers based more than 4,100 miles away in Washington, D.C.

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lucy walker trash

Posted 09.04.2011

Read More: Recycling, Toyota, Landfills, Lucy Walker, Green, Trash, Slidepollajax, Waste Land, Garbage, Green News

Director Lucy Walker spent months filming the stories of garbage pickers working at Rio de Janeiro's Jardim Gramacho, one of the world's largest landf...

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Rural America and Discarded Clothes

Mattias Wallander | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Recycling, Environment, Waste, Textile Waste, Landfills, Rural America, Reducing Waste, Green News
Mattias Wallander

21% of Americans live in rural areas. This huge subset of the American population lacks something that most city-dwellers take for granted: easy access to recycling programs.

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Cleaning House the Old-Fashioned Way

Michael McGown | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sustainability, Water Conservation, Green Living, Landfills, Green Cleaning Products, Green Products, Bottled Water, Green News
Michael McGown

There are great cleaning products available today that don't need any more water than what is available from your own tap.

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The Business of Water, the Business of Trash

Jennifer Schwab | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Landfills, Cnbc, Colorado River, Tap Water, Documentaries, Water Conservation, Environmental Documentaries, Cnbc Documentaries, Garbage, Green News
Jennifer Schwab

CNBC has created two environmentally relevant docu-reports covering the worldwide water shortage and trash/landfill problems that are so good you won't mind missing everything else.

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Burt's Bees Are Busy on the Sustainability Front

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Landfills, Nc, Pollution, Consumer Products, Water Usage, John Replogle, Clorox, Electricity, Corporations, LEED Certified, Greenwashing, Burt's Bees, Durham, Waste, Sustainability, Trash, Consumers, Carbon-Free, Green News
Bill Chameides

Crossposted with www.thegreengrok.com.A report from the headquarters of Burt's Bees. If you think about it, Burt's Bees -- maker of lip balms, skin cr...

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Despite Recession, Textile Consumption Up, Recycling Down

Mattias Wallander | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Secondhand Clothes, Recycling, Usagain, Landfills, Textiles, Used Clothes, Business News
Mattias Wallander

The economy has taken a hit, but that doesn't seem to have stopped Americans from buying new clothes in high volume. In fact, the culture of consumption is still going strong, with Americans hungrier than ever for textiles.

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Waste Land -- Recycling as an Artistic Statement

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lucy Walker, Landfills, Vik Muniz, Environmentalism and Film, Waste, Artist, Trash, Documentary Film, Brazil, Green News
Bill Chameides

The inspiration for the movie Waste Land was in part sparked by a visit to New York City's mammoth Fresh Kills, formerly the world's largest landfill.

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Eco Etiquette: Help Tame My Trash!

Jennifer Grayson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Composting, Landfills, Trash Disposal, Reducing Waste, Trash Metering, Green Garbage, Pay as You Throw, Recycling, Wastezero, Green News
Jennifer Grayson

Send all your eco-inquiries to Jennifer Grayson at eco.etiquette@gmail.com. Questions may be edited for length and clarity. I'm watching my husband s...

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Europe Burns Trash For Cleaner Energy, U.S. Lags

The New York Times | ELISABETH ROSENTHAL | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Alternative Fuel, Landfills, Industrial Waste, Clean Energy, u.s. Waste Energy, Green Energy, Waste to Energy Plants, Waste-Energy, Industrial-Waste-Energy, Denmark Trash Plants, Green News

Denmark now regards garbage as a clean alternative fuel rather than a smelly, unsightly problem. Across Europe, there are about 400 plants, with Denma...

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Proper Waste Disposal (PHOTOS): How To Recycle Those Trickier Items

Huffington Post | Gazelle Emami | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Waste Disposal, Recycling, Landfills, Recycle, Municipal Waste, Slidepollajax, Trash, Green News

While recycling statistics show the U.S. making little strides every year, there are certain items that still fall in the "what the hell am I supposed...

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Food Waste: What Is The Environmental Toll Of Discarded Food In America?

Scientific American | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Epa, Greenhouse Gases, Food Waste Environment, Food, Landfills, Food Waste, Freeganism, Carbon Footprint, Green News

Food waste is a huge issue in America, especially in light of the growing divide between the profligate rich and the hungry poor. According to the U....

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Boxer and Feinstein Call For Halt to Landfill Expansion

AP | GARANCE BURKE | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dianne Feinstein, Kettleman City, Birth Defects, Landfill, Landfills, Barbara Boxer, Kettleman City Birth Defects, Los Angeles News

FRESNO, Calif. — State health officials said Tuesday they found nothing unusual about the rate of infant birth defects in an impoverished San Jo...

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U-Haul Launches Reuse Center For Left-Behind Items

Planet Green | Jaymi Heimbuch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Landfills, Salvation Army, U-Haul, Goodwill, U Haul Resuse Center, Self Service Reuse Center, Green News

When people move their possessions out of a self-storage unit, they often leave behind a whole lot of things that they don't really need or want to ta...

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Coal Plants Creating Landfills In Order To Clean The Air

AP | DUNCAN MANSFIELD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Landfills, Coal, Tva, Tennessee, Green News

KINGSTON, Tenn. — Smokestack scrubbers will eliminate most of the sulfur emissions from the coal-fired Kingston Fossil Plant, but they will also...

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Algae Could Be the Key to Ultra-Thin Biodegradable Batteries

Inhabitat | Ariel Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Landfills, Green Technology, Green, Sustainability, Landfill, Green Energy, Batteries, Green News

Algae is often touted as the next big thing in biofuels, but the slimy stuff could also be the key to paper-thin biodegradable batteries according to ...

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Eco Etiquette: Is Recycling Bad For The Environment?

Jennifer Grayson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Recycling, Methane Emissions, Landfills, Carbon Emissions, Green Advice, Recycling Myths, Composting, Greenhouse Gases, Green Living, Global Warming, Landfill Space, Environment, Green News
Jennifer Grayson

I have been hearing reports that recycling is bad. That the costs of shipping, mostly the carbon emissions from them, counteract any benefit from recy...

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