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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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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