Recycling - The metals in the car go round and round
But they need to be designed to make recycling them easier | Science & technology Scrapyards of tomorrow - Old electric cars are a raw material ...
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Trash, Recycling and the Environment
a collection of articles and resources examining the (mountain) of garbage ending up in our oceans
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Goodwill Doesn't Want Your Broken Toaster : NPR
Goodwill Has A Trash Problem. We're The Cause. "Wish-cyclers" are donating millions of pounds of broken goods and trash to Goodwill.
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Is Recycling Worth It Anymore? The Truth Is Complicated - NPR
America produces more waste per capita than any other country in the world. And recycling, which was once considered the solution to that problem, ...
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The Recycling Game Is Rigged Against You - Bloomberg
Even if you put everything into the right blue bins, a lot of plastics will end up in landfills and the ocean. Consumers can't solve this problem.
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Seven charts that explain the plastic pollution problem - BBC News
More and more waste plastic is ending up in our oceans. How big is the problem and why is plastic such a threat?
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Drowning in garbage - Washington Post
Landfill photos from six cities that highlight the global waste problem - The world produces more than 3.5 million tons of garbage a day — and that...
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Recycling in the United States is in serious trouble. How does it work?
Recycling in the United States is in serious trouble. Here's how it works.
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Anthony Bourdain Talks Tough About Food Waste
New York Times, Film Review, 2017: "The TV traveler and the chef Danny Bowien spoke about their new anti-waste film Thursday for Times Talks. “Go ...
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Modernising Brazil’s waste-picking trade - Swipe right to recycle
EVERY night Gabriel Cazuza drags his two-wheeled, metal-framed carroça through the streets of São Paulo collecting aluminium, paper, cardboard and ...
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An enzyme that digests plastic could boost recycling - The Economist
A MILLION plastic bottles are sold every minute. Many are not recycled and of those that are, only a small fraction become bottles again. That is, ...
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Only 9% of the world's plastic is recycled - Daily chart
IN A paper published last year in Science Advances, Roland Geyer of the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his colleagues put the cumulat...
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The Revolutionary Giant Ocean Cleanup Machine Is About To Set Sail | FAST COMPANY
Boyan Slat dropped out of school to work on his design for a device that could collect the trillions of pieces of plastic floating in the ocean. Af...
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Your Recycling Gets Recycled, Right? Maybe, or Maybe Not - The New York Times
Plastics and papers from dozens of American cities and towns are being dumped in landfills after China stopped recycling most “foreign garbage.”
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The future of plastics recycling | Science
The environmental consequences of plastic solid waste are visible in the ever-increasing levels of global plastic pollution both on land and in the...
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Road makers turn to recycled plastic for tougher surfaces - The Economist
OF ALL the plastic produced since the 1950s, less than 10% has been recycled. The vast majority ends up being dumped, most of it in landfill. Some ...
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5 recycling myths busted - National Geographic
What really happens to all the stuff you put in those blue bins?
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5 clever startups that are making money recycling waste - TNW
These amazing startups found innovative, long-term solutions to manage the world’s waste — and you can now support them with a simple vote.
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How Sweden is turning its waste into gold
FRANCE 24 live news stream: all the latest news 24/7 When it comes to environmental awareness and waste management, Sweden is one of the world'...
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Plastic plates, cups, cutlery to be banned in EU by 2021
Leave your plastic at home on your next European vacation.
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China's recycling ban has sent America's plastic to Malaysia. Now they don't want it -- so what next? - CNN
Dozens of laborers and factory operators sit hand-cuffed in rows on the pavement at an industrial park in Malaysia.
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The World's Recycling Is in Chaos. Here's What Has to Happen | WIRED
China’s decision to no longer accept the world’s recycled waste has left countries scrambling to adapt. They have a long way to go.
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Is Plastic Recycling A Lie? Oil Companies Touted Recycling To Sell More Plastic
An NPR and PBS Frontline investigation reveals how the oil and gas industry used the promise of recycling to sell more plastic, even when they knew...
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