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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch: Expanding Islands of Trash

nytimes.com | LINDSEY HOSHAW | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Plastics, Toxic Chemicals, Trash-Island, Trash, Sustainability, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Oceans, Pacific Ocean, Garbage, Garbage Vortex, Environment, Green News

Light bulbs, bottle caps, toothbrushes, Popsicle sticks and tiny pieces of plastic, each the size of a grain of rice, inhabit the Pacific garbage patc...

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Bette Midler Trash-Talks Yankees, Wants Team To Adopt Highway In Front Of New Stadium

nydailynews.com | By Heidi Evans | Posted 11.10.2009 | New York

Read More: Adopt-a-Highway, Highway, Bette Midler, Major Deegan Expressway, Bronx, Yankees, Litter Removal, Garbage, New Yankee Stadium, New York News

First, the Yankees cleaned up on the Phillies - now Bette Midler wants the world champs to pick up the tab to clean 2 miles of a dirty Bronx highway o...

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Is Halloween The Most Wasteful Holiday? (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Eve Solomon | Posted 10.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Slidepoll, Halloween, Trash, Pumpkins, Halloween Costumes, Garbage, Costumes, Egging, Recycle, Jack-O-Lanterns, Packaging, Green News

Here at HuffPost Green we love a party... and Halloween is definitely a fun holiday. But as the tradition becomes increasingly consumer-oriented, we t...

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Trash Is a Terrible Thing to Waste

Bill Chameides | Posted 10.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Freegan, Recycling, Energy, Dumpster Diving, Landfills, Waste, Composting, Trash, Do It Yourself, Pollution, Lower Your Impact, Garbage, Recycled Paper, Green News
Bill Chameides

Looking to lower your impact on the planet? Look no further than your trash bin. We Americans produce a lot of trash -- by some estimates about 250 million tons of the stuff per year.

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Anti-Garbage: From Less Waste To Zero-Waste

nytimes.com | LESLIE KAUFMAN | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Recycling, Sustainabiilty, Green Living, Less Waste, Zero-Waste, Trash, Garbage, Green News

Across the nation, an antigarbage strategy known as "zero waste" is moving from the fringes to the mainstream, taking hold in school cafeterias, natio...

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120 Horsepower Sports Car That Runs on Garbage?

treehugger.com | Posted 10.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Rinspeed, Garbage Fuel, Biofuels, Garbage, Garbage Power, Green News

Designed to run off of fermented green waste, the Advantige R One, a Formula One-style car, is no wimp and offers a few upgraded features so the drive...

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Who Decides When to Potty Train: You, Baby or Big Diapers?

Kirsten Dirksen | Posted 09.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Diapers, Trash, Faircompanies, Landfill, Green News, Potty Training, Garbage, Motherhood, Parenting, Green News
Kirsten Dirksen

How did we, in just one generation, go from believing that an 18-monther was ready for the potty to feeling like we needed to let them discover their own way for an additional year and a half?

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Elite Pakistani Students Pick Up Trash To Clean Up The Country

Nosheen Abbas | Posted 09.19.2009 | World

Read More: Youth, Responsibility, Environmentalists, Social Responsibility, Pakistan, Islamabad-Pakistan, Youth Activism, Garbage, Islamabad, Environmentally Friendly, Responsible, Garbage-Reduction, Private Schools, Schools, Citizen, Spotlight on Pakistan, Sop, Spotlight-on-Pakistanyoung, World News
Nosheen Abbas

Tired of hearing people complain about what's wrong with Pakistan, these students decided to do something about it by meeting every Sunday to clean up trash.

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"Idiot Wind": A Mind-Expanding Playlist for Glenn Beck

David Wild | Posted 09.07.2009 | Media

Read More: Aerosmith, Glenn Beck Fox News, Coldplay, Garbage, Jeff Beck, Glenn Beck, Barbra Streisand, Bread, Cheap Trick, Sam Cooke, Bob Dylan, Beck, Media News
David Wild

Glenn Beck started out as a Top 40 DJ, so on behalf of all the lefties out there who are busy ruining this great nation, here's my personal playlist for this fallen jockey who just keeps steering to the right.

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Pakistan's Kids Work As Garbage Collectors To Make Ends Meet

Zeinab Khan | Posted 09.06.2009 | World

Read More: Spotlight-on-Pakistan, Rag Pickers, Pakistan's Children, Spotlight on Pakistan, Afghani Children, Garabage Collectors, Afghani Migrants, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Pakistani Children, Garbage, World News
Zeinab Khan

Without the use of any instruments, face masks and gloves, these scavengers filter through rubbish in search of paper, plastic, metal and any other recyclable material.

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Man Modifies Pickup Truck To Run On Wood And Waste

KPTV Portland | Posted 08.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Fuel, Gas, Wood, Vehicles, Biofuel, Pickup, Cars, Mr. Fusion, Green Living, Garbage, Pickup Truck, Environment, Waste, Back to the Future, Green Energy, Green News

From the first time he saw Emmett "Doc" Brown fire up the Mr. Fusion home energy reactor in the "Back to the Future" movies, Dave Nichols has always w...

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Egypt's Green Live in Garbage

Olivia Sterns | Posted 08.08.2009 | World

Read More: Recycling, Green Jobs, Cairo, Egypt, Swine Flu, Africa, Green, Green News, Trash, Green Living, Development, Garbage, Zabaleen, Sanitation, World News
Olivia Sterns

The efficiency rate of the Zabaleen is almost 85%, rivaling the best of Western urban recycling models. Even still, the state seems intent on wiping them out.

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Bird Strike Worries Complicate New York's Garbage Plan

AP | JOAN LOWY | Posted 06.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Air Travel, Environment, Bird Strike, Animals, Garbage, New York, Green News

WASHINGTON — About 700 yards from the end of a LaGuardia Airport runway, where thousands of planes take off and land, New York officials want to...

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Mother's Day and the Universal Law of the Garbage Truck

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 06.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Universal Law, Mother, Mother's Day, Garbage Truck, Garbage, Living News
Dr. Susan Corso

What does garbage have to do with Mother's Day? Plenty. Ever heard the adage ... forgive or relive? It's true. Forgive your mother. Otherwise you're stuck in recycling your garbage about her.

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Nepal Drowning In Garbage After Strikes

GroundReport | Posted 02.21.2009 | World

Read More: Kathmandu, Pollution, Maoism, Garbage, Nepal, South Asia, Nepal Garbage Removal, Nepal Trash, Nepal Garbage, Asia, World News
GroundReport

Originally published on GroundReport.com, the citizen journalism platform that covers world news from the ground. By Mohan Nepali KATHMANDU-- For t...

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Trash Talk

Zem Joaquin | Posted 01.16.2009 | Green

Read More: End-Use, Monstrous Hybrids, Biodegrade, Commoditizing Trash, William McDonough, Landfill, Garbage, Nike, Environment, Toxic Wasteland, Waste, Trash, By-Prodcuts, Simple Shoes, Google, Soda Bottles, Environmentalists, Environmentalism, Green Living, Oecotextiles, Etsy, Delphine, Green Products, Teracycle, Green News
Zem Joaquin

Almost every environmentalist agrees that we need a paradigm shift that acknowledges that nature doesn't have an "away," that everything created in nature is incorporated back in.

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A Holiday Is a Terrible Thing to Waste

Alex Pasternack | Posted 01.15.2009 | Home

Read More: Waste, Holidays, Green Living, Consumption, E-Waste, China Pollution, Shopping, Garbage, Home News
Alex Pasternack

When I think of Christmas, I see the stuff under trees: toys and books and computers, DVD players and colorful paper. I don't mean the Christmas tree...

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Chicago Has Seven Years Worth Of Landfill Space Available

Associated Press | Posted 12.26.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Epa, Chicago Garbage, Landfills, Chicago Landfill Space, Waste Disposal, Chicago Landfills, Illinois Landfills, Waste, Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, Garbage, Chicago News

State environmental officials say overall disposal capacity in Illinois is sufficient for the next 18 years. That's despite a 3.5 decline in space. ...

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Who Controls Your Trash?

Chicago Reader | Mick Dumke | Posted 11.14.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Garbage Collection, Chicago Garbage, Chicago Waste Management, Garbage, Chicago Dumpsters, Chicago Waste, Chicago News

It might strike you as an obscure policy dispute if not an absurd one, but an ongoing debate over who's going to get control of your dumpster is likel...

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Urban Life for Bears: Short and Violent

Dot Earth | Andrew C. Revkin | Posted 11.01.2008 | Green

Read More: Lake Tahoe, Environment, Urban Animals, Animals, Garbage, Black Bears, Bears, Bear Cubs, Green News

The human species is now a mainly urban animal for the first time in history, according to the United Nations, and in at least some regions of the Uni...

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The Toxic Crime of the Century

Jackie Fuchs | Posted 10.05.2008 | Green

Read More: Waste Disposal, Mexico, Mafia, Italy, Sex Lies Videotape, Garbage, Reduce, Epa, Environmental Protection Agency, Camorra, Recycle, Fish, Environment, Naples, Hazardous Waste, Reuse, Toxic Waste, Bacteria, Plastic Bags, China, Green News
Jackie Fuchs

For months now, Campania has been suffocating under heaps of uncollected garbage shipped from economically sound northern Italian regions to the much poorer south.

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Environmental Progress in Middle East May Hinge on Financial Gains

Brian Pellot | Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Egypy, Recycling, Cairo, Middle East, Garbage, Waste Management, Politics News
Brian Pellot

Cairo is like many Middle Eastern cities in that it lacks an effective system for pre-disposal recycling. As a result, the Zabaleen separate an estimated 4,000 tons of trash each day into organic and inorganic matter.

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It's Time For Deposits. On Everything.

Lloyd Alter | Posted 09.16.2008 | Green

Read More: Waste, Recycling, Environment, Garbage, Green News
Lloyd Alter

Recycling on the taxpayers nickel as we do it now not the answer. It is time for producer responsibility and zero waste.

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Summer in the City: The Sweet Smell of Garbage

Pamela Newton | Posted 09.07.2008 | Green

Read More: Garbage, Germany, Brooklyn, New York, Recycling, Naples, Green News
Pamela Newton

It turns out the only difference between New York and Naples is that Naples admits it is having a garbage problem.

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From New Composter to Poo Composter: A Green Garbage Guide

J.S. McDougall | Posted 07.08.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Humanure, Chelsea Green, Compost, Jenkins, Composting, Green Living, Green Garbage, Green Living Tips, Garbage, Green News
J.S. McDougall

There are a bewildering amount of different composting systems and bins available on the market. Here's some help to choose which bin or system suits your lifestyle, your family, your house, or apartment.

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