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Garbage
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Garbage-related materials.
Super Circular Economy: Can Waste Manage Waste?
Last February, I got the chance to visit a sustainability conference in a small town named Ukhrul in the Manipur…
2019-09-29
Top 10 Countries With The Largest Contribution Of Garbage In The Ocean
Pollution dominates the world’s oceans and these bodies of water are in a very precarious situation along with…
2019-06-17
As more developing countries reject plastic waste exports, wealthy nations seek solutions at home
Less than two years after China banned most imports of scrap material from abroad, many of its neighbors…
2019-06-12
Why Modern Cities Are Going Green And Getting Rid Of Plastic
It has been making international headlines, cities around the world are adapting to living without plastic, and the…
2019-05-30
Humanity Has Managed To Change Places We’ve Barely Even Visited
From the Mariana Trench to the Moon, we don’t have to be in a place very much to…
2019-01-16
If you recycled all the plastic garbage in the world, you could buy the NFL, Apple and Microsoft
This year, I served on the judging panel for The Royal Statistical Society’s International Statistic of the Year.…
2018-12-19
Will Smart Technology Solve The Urban Waste Crisis?
The migration of people into the world’s urban centres has created crisis levels of waste. According to the…
2018-11-06
How This Town Produces No Trash
Do you find separating trash by paper and plastic a chore? Then think about the residents of Kamikatsu,…
2018-06-14
We Made Plastic. We Depend On It. Now We’re Drowning In It.
The miracle material has made modern life possible. But more than 40 percent of it is used just…
2018-06-11
Pollution Cleanup Is Obviously Costly. Here’s A Possible Answer.
Last week, Portland is expected to become the seventh West Coast city to sue Monsanto, alleging that the…
2016-06-07
How Philly Made An All-In Bet On In-Sink Disposals
A trashy plan to create good gas. Between an in-sink garbage disposal and heaping food scraps into the…
2016-01-14
What Really Happens To All That Stuff You Recycle
In many municipalities around the country, the days of sorting your recyclables for curbside pickup are long gone,…
2015-07-22
A City Where Garbage Is Not
In San Francisco, when life gives you lemons, you make lemonade—as long as the lemons end up in…
2015-06-09
3-Year Dedication Of Mapping Brooklyn Made From Trash
Jennifer Maravillas’ “71 Square Miles” is one of the most colorful maps of Brooklyn I’ve seen. And it’s…
2015-05-28