Tag: Waste
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A Look Inside How Hawaii's Plastic Bag Ban Came About
Hawaii becomes the first state in the union to enact a ban on plastic bags at checkout counters. Sierra Club looks into how it finally came into being.
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From A to Zierfische; Obsolete Signs are Being Saved from the Dump at the Buchstabenmuseum in Berlin (Photos)
The Buchstabenmuseum is an NGO dedicated to preserving, restoring and exhibiting old signs from Berlin and around the world. Its owners save obsolete letters from the dump and instead tell their stories. It is a museum like no other!
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Next Generation Wastewater Treatment Uses Hydrodynamic Forces to Clean Water
Instead of using a physical barrier, such as a filter, a new water treatment technology uses a combination of centrifugal and hydrodynamic forces to separate biomass and recover water in wastewater treatment.
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Make Your Own Plant Tags From Discarded Fountain Drink Cups
Upcycle fountain drink cups into plant tags to label your seedlings and plants.
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The Do's and Don'ts of Backyard Composting
Follow these simple rules for composting success.
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Waste Receptacle Offers Wi-Fi in Exchange for Dog Poo
Bullmastiff owners in Mexico City are about to become extremely popular among laptop-wielding parkgoers, methinks
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Cheap Sensor Measures Fruit Ripeness, Prevents Wasted Food
MIT researchers have come up with a sensor that can detect how ripe fruit is on store shelves, and tell managers to hurry up and sell it before it goes bad.
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Drink Bottles Recycled Today in Times Square will be Converted into a School Garden (UPDATE)
Turn trash into a school garden in Harlem by recycling drink bottles in Times Square today.
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High Tech DIY Sensors Could Help Keep Billions of Gallons of Raw Sewage Out of NYC Harbor
An entrepreneurial design student may have found an intuitive, relatively simple way to keep 27 billion gallons of raw sewage from being dumped in New York City's harbor every year.
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9 Concepts for Cleaning up Space Junk
Litter isn't just a problem for terra firma, it's a very real problem in space as well. The effort to clean up space junk might take a variety of different methods, and here's a look at some of those concepts being considered.
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4 DIY Compost Bins You Can Build in One Day (VIDEO)
Save money on a compost bin by building your own. You can recycle wooden pallets, trash cans, barrels and cinder blocks for these projects.
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3 Compost Bins for Small Spaces
Composting doesn't have to be ugly. Here are three solutions to composting in small spaces.
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More Hot Poop on Composting and Alternative Toilets
It's time to seriously consider putting composting toilets in our houses; they are getting so good that you will barely notice the change.
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Skoah Skin Care Helps Conquer Vexing Hotel Waste Problem
The Vancouver-based skincare company has teamed up with The Revere in Boston to tackle plastic chaos.
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Quirky Portraits of People and Their Dustbins Call Attention to Singapore Landfill
The otherwise cheery photographs have a poignant tale to tell.
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Israeli Company Wants to Make Paper From Your Poo
In the world of recycled paper, there remains a previously overlooked source of pulp that's literally being flushed down the toilet every day. (Hint: It's feces.)
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Sun, Sea, Sand, And... Small Appliances? New Marine Trash Report Reveals Sorry State of World's Beaches
Nearly 1 million pieces of food packaging, more than 250,000 items of clothing, and enough light bulbs to replace every light on the Eiffel Tower -- that's just some of the 9 million pounds of trash volunteers collected recently from coastlines.
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Students Clean Up Lake, Discover Sunken Treasure
On a recent outing to clean a polluted lake in downtown Oakland, one group sixth-graders were rewarded with something more than just sense of civic pride.
