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Scientists in Japan to put Stars-2 satellite into orbit to trial space cleanup | Scienc... - 0 views

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Japanese scientists are preparing to launch a satellite that will use a 300-meter electromagnetic tether to snag orbiting trash left over from past satellites and space missions. The magnetic field will slow the trash, causing it to gradually fall closer to Earth and eventually burn up in the atmosphere. It's thought there are tens of millions of trash fragments in orbit around the Earth.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Japanese scientists are preparing to launch a satellite that will use a 300-meter electromagnetic tether to snag orbiting trash left over from past satellites and space missions. The magnetic field will slow the trash, causing it to gradually fall closer to Earth and eventually burn up in the atmosphere. It's thought there are tens of millions of trash fragments in orbit around the Earth. </div>

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Adidas Knit These Sneakers Entirely From Ocean Plastic Trash | Co.Exist | ideas + impact - 0 views

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As engineers work to find new ways to pull some of the trillions of pieces of plastic trash out of the ocean, companies are coming up with new uses for it. Like soap bottles, surfboards, and now shoes: Adidas just released a new prototype for a sneaker woven entirely out of ocean trash.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">As engineers work to find new ways to pull some of the trillions of pieces of plastic trash out of the ocean, companies are coming up with new uses for it. Like soap bottles, surfboards, and now shoes: Adidas just released a new prototype for a sneaker woven entirely out of ocean trash.</div>

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Nike's Newest Concept Store in Shanghai Built with 100% Trash · Environmental... - 0 views

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Adriana Trujillo on 28 Aug 13

Miniwiz Sustainable Development Ltd., a Taiwanese architectural firm, completed a building in Shanghai, China, at the end of July, built with 100% trash. The building, Nike's newest concept store, used 5,500 soda cans, 2,000 PET water bottles and 50,000 old CDs and DVDs, the company says.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Miniwiz Sustainable Development Ltd., a Taiwanese architectural firm, completed a building in Shanghai, China, at the end of July, built with 100% trash. The building, Nike's newest concept store, used 5,500 soda cans, 2,000 PET water bottles and 50,000 old CDs and DVDs, the company says. </div>

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Solar-Powered Trash Compactor Slashes Waste Management Costs · Environmental ... - 0 views

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The solar-powered compactor packs 16 yards of loose trash into just 4 yards, reducing waste pick-up at the busy property to just once per week, thus slashing hauling costs by 50 percent, reducing CO2 emissions by more than 14 tons annually, and importantly limiting garbage truck noise to guests and neighboring residents.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">The solar-powered compactor packs 16 yards of loose trash into just 4 yards, reducing waste pick-up at the busy property to just once per week, thus slashing hauling costs by 50 percent, reducing CO2 emissions by more than 14 tons annually, and importantly limiting garbage truck noise to guests and neighboring residents.</div>

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Bloomberg Plan Aims to Require Food Composting - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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requiring New Yorkers to separate their food scraps for composting
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it is hiring a composting plant to handle 100,000 tons of food scraps a year
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Sanitation officials said 150,000 single-family homes
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New Yorkers who do not separate their food scraps could be subject to fines, just as they are currently if they do not recycle plastic, paper or metal.
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Adriana Trujillo on 19 Jun 13

Mayor Bloomber is starting a program to make food composting a requirement. Residents will sort trash in their homes and place food sraps in a brown trash can for curbside pick up. Going to start trial phase soon with actual residents and school

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Mayor Bloomber is starting a program to make food composting a requirement. Residents will sort trash in their homes and place food sraps in a brown trash can for curbside pick up. Going to start trial phase soon with actual residents and school </div>

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Incineration Versus Recycling: In Europe, A Debate Over Trash by Nate Seltenrich: Yale ... - 0 views

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recycling most materials from municipal solid waste saves on average three to five times more energy than does burning them for electricity.
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As it turns out, countries with the highest rates of garbage incineration — Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, for example, all incinerate at least 50 percent of their waste — also tend to have high rates of recycling and composting of organic materials and food waste. But zero-wasters argue that were it not for large-scale incineration, these environmentally Zero-waste advocates say a major problem is the long-term contracts that waste-to-energy plants are locked into.conscious countries would have even higher rates of recycling. Germany, for example, incinerates 37 percent of its waste and recycles 45 percent — a considerably better recycling rate than the 30-plus percent of Scandinavian countries.
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(In the United States, more than half of all waste is dumped in landfills, and about 12 percent burned, of which only a portion is used to produce energy.)
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In Flanders, Belgium, an effort to keep a lid on incinerator contracts has led nearer to zero waste, said Joan Marc Simon, executive director of Zero Waste Europe and European regional coordinator for GAIA. Since the early 1990s, when recycling rates were relatively low, the local waste authority in Flanders has decided not to increase incineration beyond roughly 25 percent, Simon said. As a result, combined recycling and composting rates now exceed 75 percent, GAIA says. "They stabilized and even reduced waste generation when they capped incineration," Simon said.
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Without incineration, he believes, most European countries could improve current recycling rates of 20 or 30 percent to 80 percent within six months. Hogg agreed, saying that rates of 70 percent should be “easy” to attain. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which calculates recycling and composting together, puts the current U.S. rate at 35 percent, compared to a combined European Union figure of 40 percent.
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Del Birmingham on 29 Aug 13

Increasingly common in Europe, municipal "waste-to-energy" incinerators are being touted as a green trash-disposal alternative. But critics contend that these large-scale incinerators tend to discourage recycling and lead to greater waste.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Increasingly common in Europe, municipal "waste-to-energy" incinerators are being touted as a green trash-disposal alternative. But critics contend that these large-scale incinerators tend to discourage recycling and lead to greater waste.</div>

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This 19-Year-Old Is Ready to Build an Ocean Cleanup Machine - Businessweek#r=hpt-ls#r=h... - 0 views

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A 19-year-old Dutch student had a bright idea for ridding the sea of floating trash -- and now he's built a team of 100 people and is raising $2 million to fund his invention. The system uses long, floating barriers to passively guide floating trash to collection areas and is said to be capable of eliminating all waste larger than 1 millimeter

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">A 19-year-old Dutch student had a bright idea for ridding the sea of floating trash -- and now he's built a team of 100 people and is raising $2 million to fund his invention. The system uses long, floating barriers to passively guide floating trash to collection areas and is said to be capable of eliminating all waste larger than 1 millimeter</div>

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Nike Builds Concept Store from Trash | Earth911.com - 0 views

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Nike has created a new concept store that's literally made from trash. The Shanghai store was entirely made from recycled materials, including 50,000 used CDs and DVDs and thousands of beverage containers

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Nike has created a new concept store that's literally made from trash. The Shanghai store was entirely made from recycled materials, including 50,000 used CDs and DVDs and thousands of beverage containers</div>

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The great garbage fire debate: Should we be burning our trash into energy? - Salon.com - 0 views

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Waste-to-energy technology has shown some success, but adoption has been slow, particularly in the US. This column looks at some of the challenges.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Waste-to-energy technology has shown some success, but adoption has been slow, particularly in the US. This column looks at some of the challenges.</div>

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How GM Generates $1 Billion from Recycling, Reusing Waste Streams · Environme... - 0 views

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General Motors has turned trash into cash - to the tune of $1 billion in new revenue streams from recycling and reuse. Read more: http://www.environmentalleader.com/2016/05/12/how-gm-generates-1-billion-from-recycling-reusing-waste-streams/#ixzz49Wo7d1VD

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">General Motors has turned trash into cash - to the tune of $1 billion in new revenue streams from recycling and reuse. Read more: <a href="http://www.environmentalleader.com/2016/05/12/how-gm-generates-1-billion-from-recycling-reusing-waste-streams/#ixzz49Wo7d1VD" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.environmentalleader.com/2016/05/12/how-gm-generates-1-billion-from-recycling-reusing-waste-streams/#ixzz49Wo7d1VD</a></div>

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This New Shampoo Will Clean Your Hair - And The Oceans | The Huffington Post - 0 views

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If you don't like lifeless hair, dandruff on your shoulders and plastics in your ocean, you can tackle all three in the shower. Procter & Gamble announced Thursday that its Head & Shoulders shampoo bottles will be recyclable and made of up to 25 percent "beach plastics," from trash removed from beaches, oceans, rivers and other waterways.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">If you don't like lifeless hair, dandruff on your shoulders and plastics in your ocean, you can tackle all three in the shower. Procter & Gamble announced Thursday that its Head & Shoulders shampoo bottles will be recyclable and made of up to 25 percent "beach plastics," from trash removed from beaches, oceans, rivers and other waterways.</div>

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The Next Wave: Investment Strategies for Plastic Free Seas | Sustainable Brands - 0 views

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Every year an estimated 8 million metric tons of plastic waste are added to the ocean. Without immediate intervention across all points of the pollution pathway, 250 million metric tons of plastic waste could be in the ocean in less than 10 years. The Ocean Conservancy and Trash Free Seas Alliance's new report, The Next Wave, examines some of the solutions and technologies currently available and looks forward to establishing a framework to generate greater collaboration and innovation toward long-term solutions.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Every year an estimated 8 million metric tons of plastic waste are added to the ocean. Without immediate intervention across all points of the pollution pathway, 250 million metric tons of plastic waste could be in the ocean in less than 10 years. The Ocean Conservancy and Trash Free Seas Alliance's new report, The Next Wave, examines some of the solutions and technologies currently available and looks forward to establishing a framework to generate greater collaboration and innovation toward long-term solutions.</div>

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E-waste: 46 million tons of trash - or treasure? | GreenBiz - 0 views

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A recent United Nations report shows that e-waste is a mine of both recyclables and toxics.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">A recent United Nations report shows that e-waste is a mine of both recyclables and toxics.</div>

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13 Mind-Blowing Images of Landfills Around the World Show the True Cost of Our Waste - 0 views

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Every year, the world produces more than two billion tons of waste - enough to fill a fleet of trash trucks to circle the world 24 times, according to sustainability project the World Counts. The World Bank estimates the yearly global cost of dealing with waste is more than $200 billion and predicts annual waste will exceed 11 million tons per day by 2100 if current trends continue. But where does it all go? Whether it's an island built as a landfill or the outskirts of historic monuments, the world's waste is piling up with no end in sight. The following images offer an acute reminder of the seriousness of waste management and the desperate need to address it. It's simply not sustainable.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Every year, the world produces more than two billion tons of waste - enough to fill a fleet of trash trucks to circle the world 24 times, according to sustainability project the World Counts. The World Bank estimates the yearly global cost of dealing with waste is more than $200 billion and predicts annual waste will exceed 11 million tons per day by 2100 if current trends continue. But where does it all go? Whether it's an island built as a landfill or the outskirts of historic monuments, the world's waste is piling up with no end in sight. The following images offer an acute reminder of the seriousness of waste management and the desperate need to address it. It's simply not sustainable. </div>

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From trash to treasure: Adidas designs shoes made of ocean garbage - CNET - 0 views

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The oceans are crammed with floating junk, including thousands of pieces of plastic per square mile of water, the U.N. says. In a bid to raise awareness of the problem, Adidas has developed a prototype sneaker made mostly from recycled floating plastic.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">The oceans are crammed with floating junk, including thousands of pieces of plastic per square mile of water, the U.N. says. In a bid to raise awareness of the problem, Adidas has developed a prototype sneaker made mostly from recycled floating plastic. </div>

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How much are we trashing our oceans? - CNN.com - 0 views

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Nearly every piece of plastic still exists on Earth, regardless of whether it's been recycled, broken down into microscopic bits or discarded in the ocean. And the world keeps producing more of the material -- creating 288 million metric tons of it in 2012. About 4.8 to 12.7 million metric tons of it end up in the oceans in 2010, according to a new estimate published in the journal Science.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Nearly every piece of plastic still exists on Earth, regardless of whether it's been recycled, broken down into microscopic bits or discarded in the ocean. And the world keeps producing more of the material -- creating 288 million metric tons of it in 2012. About 4.8 to 12.7 million metric tons of it end up in the oceans in 2010, according to a new estimate published in the journal Science.</div>

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How Brazil rewards 'invisible environmentalists' for cutting waste | GreenBiz - 0 views

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Millions of "invisible environmentalists" sift through trash for recyclable material. A rapidly growing program now provides them a living wage.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Millions of "invisible environmentalists" sift through trash for recyclable material. A rapidly growing program now provides them a living wage. </div>

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Thailand to Ban Imports of Plastics and E-Waste - 0 views

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Thailand has joined Vietnam and Malaysia in cracking down on the world's trash. Thailand will stop accepting more than 400 types of electronic waste (e-waste), including circuit boards, old TVs and radios, within six months

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Thailand has joined Vietnam and Malaysia in cracking down on the world's trash. Thailand will stop accepting more than 400 types of electronic waste (e-waste), including circuit boards, old TVs and radios, within six months</div>

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Launched by two leather rookies, Billy Tannery is the first ever entirely British goat leather brand. Shocked at learning that almost all goat hides end up in the trash, Jack Millington and Rory Harker, two friends, decided to create a sustainable goat leather brand at home in the UK.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Launched by two leather rookies, Billy Tannery is the first ever entirely British goat leather brand. Shocked at learning that almost all goat hides end up in the trash, Jack Millington and Rory Harker, two friends, decided to create a sustainable goat leather brand at home in the UK.</div>

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For thousands of years humans have existed on Earth, but it is only in the last 100 or so that plastics have entered our lives. These days you can barely go a minute without touching something made from some kind of plastic. But while we've been getting all swept up in the convenience that synthetic polymers bring us, the trash has been piling up. Millions of metric tons of plastic enter the ocean every year, and no one really knows where it is and what damage it is causing. So ... what are we to do about it?

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">For thousands of years humans have existed on Earth, but it is only in the last 100 or so that plastics have entered our lives. These days you can barely go a minute without touching something made from some kind of plastic. But while we've been getting all swept up in the convenience that synthetic polymers bring us, the trash has been piling up. Millions of metric tons of plastic enter the ocean every year, and no one really knows where it is and what damage it is causing. So ... what are we to do about it?</div>

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