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From the Recycling Bin to the Landfill: The Major Flaw in Plastic Recycling

April 4, 2024

From the Recycling Bin to the Landfill: The Major Flaw in Plastic Recycling Reports estimate that less than 6 percent of plastic in the United States is recycled, pointing to the impracticality of recycling on a large scale. People may be putting plastic into recycling bins, but most of it generally ends up in landfills […]

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“Pollution Panic” Strikes US Cities As Officials Face Consequences of China’s Waste Blockade

March 10, 2019

“Pollution Panic” Strikes US Cities As Officials Face Consequences of China’s Waste Blockade Beginning in Feb 2017, as part of China’s broader “National Sword” campaign, the largest buyer of recyclables from the US, banned 24 types of solid waste from being imported and placed tougher restrictions on the ones it continues to accept. The move left the recycling industry and […]

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US Cities Face “Moment Of Reckoning” As China Halts Trash Imports

February 22, 2019

US Cities Face “Moment Of Reckoning” As China Halts Trash Imports In the Trump era, the American garbage business is changing in ways that Tony Soprano never could have anticipated. And it’s creating serious problems for American cities, who might soon find themselves with nowhere to turn to export their trash and recyclables (most of […]

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Junk Planet: Is Earth the Largest Garbage Dump in the Universe?

February 26, 2018

Junk Planet: Is Earth the Largest Garbage Dump in the Universe? Is Earth the largest garbage dump in the Universe? I don’t know. But it’s a safe bet that Earth would be a contender were such a competition to be held. Let me explain why. To start, just listing the types of rubbish generated by […]

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Canadians piling up more garbage than ever before as disposables rule

September 30, 2015

Canadians piling up more garbage than ever before as disposables rule There’s a high price to pay for our love affair with products of convenience We like to think we’re behaving like model citizens, hauling our recycling to the curb and composting our banana peels. But the sad truth is, Canadians are piling up more household garbage […]

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Local Governments Increasingly Poking Through Your Garbage

July 29, 2015

Local Governments Increasingly Poking Through Your Garbage Civil libertarians are worried about an increasingly common form of domestic surveillance that has nothing to do with listening to your phone calls or reading your emails; it has to do with looking through your garbage. Municipalities across the United States are implementing intrusive methods of monitoring the stuff […]

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