'You Can't Recycle Your Way Out': California's Plastic Problem and What We Can Do About It | KQED Every year 4.5 million tons of plastic end up in California landfills because the amount produced and used far outstrips our ability to recycle it.

'You Can't Recycle Your Way Out': California's Plastic Problem and What We Can Do About It

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#News #USNews #California #CaliforniaNews #Recycling #RecyclingNews #Waste #WasteNews #Plastic #PlasticRecycling #PlasticCrisis #Landfills #Climate #Environment

Gas from #LandFills utilised.

Morris Matters - Food scrap collection in multifamily housing Food scrap collection in multifamily housing The New York State Pollution Prevention Institute has published two blog posts that outline best practices for starting food scrap collections in multifami...

#NewYork State published information as to how to organize #food scrap collection in multifamily housing. Join the effort to keep this #waste out of our #landfills .

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Partnerships divert 405,000 pounds of food out of Sudbury’s dumps It helps the Sudbury Food Bank feed 17,000 people each month and extends the lives of the city’s landfills.

Natalie Labbee, ED of #SudburyFoodBank, said last yr local grocers helped divert 405K lbs of food from CGS #landfills, all while feeding 1000s of residents. With #FoodBank usage at an all-time high, every bit helps. Life is precarious for so many these days.
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The global annual production of #plastics rose to 400 million metric tons in 2022 and is projected to double by 2050.

As of 2015 some 6,300 metric tons had become waste.

About 79% ended up in #landfills or the natural environment — rates that haven’t gotten much better in the ensuing decade 🗑️🚯♻️

Impact of Leachate on the Quality of Groundwater From the Hassi Bounif Technical Landfill: A Pollution Diagnosis and Risk Assessment This study evaluates the impact of landfill leachate on nearby groundwater by analyzing physico-chemical parameters, organic pollution indicators, and heavy metals. Seasonal variations are assessed t....

“Impact of Leachate on the Quality of Groundwater From the Hassi Bounif Technical Landfill: A Pollution Diagnosis and Risk Assessment”

#groundwater
#landfills
#leachates

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Appeal court rules in favour of Ottawa's toxic plastic listing | CBC News In a victory for the Liberal government, the Federal Court of Appeal has upheld its decision to list plastics as toxic, enabling Ottawa to ban single-use plastic items.

Yay! A win for #MotherEarth. She needs all the help she can get. 🌎 #ClimateCrisis #PlasticsBan #Landfills #ReduceReuseRecycle ♻️

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Sustainable Demolition| Donating Furnishings and Building Materials Sustainable demolition reduces construction waste and keeps useful building materials out of landfills. Matt Hoots shares how he worked with the Lifecycle Building Center in Atlanta to donate…

Reduce construction #waste, save landfill space, and give #furnishings & #buildingmaterials a new life with sustainable #demolition! AND, save on #taxes! buff.ly/3HE4XLA #building #buildings #construction #builders #reuse #recycle #landfills #greenbuilding #sustainability

Inspired by Asthma Attack, New Delhi Teens Recycle 2 Million Pounds of Waste Across 14 Indian Cities Youth comes with gifts: one of them is the inability to recognize when you should be intimidated. When two teenagers in New Delhi wanted to do something to improve the city’s waste collection, age and experience would have told them that they were out of their minds. Yet just a few short years later and […] The post Inspired by Asthma Attack, New Delhi Teens Recycle 2 Million Pounds of Waste Across 14 Indian Cities appeared first on Good News Network.

Day 70 of 100 posting 📷 I've taken. Reclaimers do a community clean up with Brixton, Johannesburg, on a rainy day.

#recycling #litter #community #waste #landfills #photography #SouthAfrica

Upper Arlington's First Repair Café at Tremont Library: Reviving Belongings and Reducing Waste - Amber Reed

How To Lose The War On Renewable Energy, Bigly - CleanTechnica The renewable energy firm Reactivate will build solar power plants on 50 landfills owned by the nation's largest waste management company, WM.

50 new solar power plants for the US, all on landfills.

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#solar #solarpower #solarenergy #pv #solarpowerplants #energy #greenenergy #renewablenergy #waste #landfills #powerplants #cleanenergy #decarbonization #energytransition #sustainable #sustainbility

#composting #wastenot #foodwaste #wildforchange #landfills

This is #Intentionally #Harming #VoteByMail which the #USPS #BoardOfGovernors is made of mostly #RightWingRacists trying to #Privatize USPS

Remember when #DeJoy threw a bunoch of #MailSorting #Robotics into #Landfills

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#Shopping #online? Buying more sizes & colors, knowing you will likely return 2 of 3??

You don't just hurt #retailer's bottom lines, you contribute mightily to waste and #pollution with nearly a third sent to #landfills.

In person? 75% fewer returns.

Shop wisely. Stop being a gonef & a polluter.

The ‘Toxic Cocktail’ Brewing in Pennsylvania’s Waterways Fracking’s Forever Problem: Eighth in a series about the gas industry’s radioactive waste. BELLE VERNON, Pa.—Off a back road in the hilly country south of Pittsburgh, a tributary to the Monongahela River runs through overgrown vegetation and beneath an abandoned railroad trestle, downstream from the Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill. On a cool day in late July, […]

Twenty Years Into Fracking, Pennsylvania Has Yet to Reckon With Its Radioactive Waste Fracking’s Forever Problem: Seventh in a series about the gas industry’s radioactive waste. When John Quigley became the secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection in 2015, he knew that he would be busy trying to keep up with the consequences of the state’s rapid increase in natural gas production. But when reports landed […]

Tracking Oil and Gas Waste in Pennsylvania Is Still a ‘Logistical Mess’ Fracking’s Forever Problem: Sixth in a series about the gas industry’s radioactive waste. How much toxic oil and gas waste is produced in Pennsylvania every year, and where does it end up? Despite state efforts to track it, there’s no way to know for sure. For more than a decade, regulators have been aware of […]

Ottawa to announce plan to slash methane pollution from fossil fuel production, landfills

#Ottawa To Announce Plan To Slash #Methane Pollution From #FossilFuel Production, #Landfills > unpublished.ca/news-feed-it... #cdnpoli

Dumpster diver shares photos of stunning discoveries outside grocery store: 'It is ridiculous' — The Cool Down

"Nearly 1/3 of all #food in U.S. #grocerystores gets thrown away.
When food winds up in #landfills, it emits #methane, a powerful pollutant. 😳 Meanwhile, nearly 18 million American households struggle with #foodinsecurity...about 24% of all water used for #farming gets wasted with the tossed food."

When I go to the #mall, I see future #landfills.

Ohio Landfills Take Drilling Waste but Don’t Track or Test Much of It This story by The Allegheny Front was reported in collaboration with Inside Climate News. Listen to the radio version of the piece below. Tina and Bill Higgins have lived among forested Appalachian hills in the tiny village of Amsterdam in eastern Ohio for nearly 25 years. As they waited for their dinner at Grammy’s Kitchen, Bill […]

UK and Europe’s hidden landfills at risk of leaking toxic waste into water supplies Exclusive: Rising flood risks driven by climate change could release toxic waste from ageing sites – posing threats to ecosystems

Thousands of #landfills across the UK and Europe sit in floodplains, posing a potential threat to drinking water and conservation areas. “With increasing frequency of #floods and #erosion from #climatechange, there’s a greater risk of washing into our environment www.theguardian.com/environment/...

UK and Europe’s hidden landfills at risk of leaking toxic waste into water supplies Exclusive: Rising flood risks driven by climate change could release toxic waste from ageing sites – posing threats to ecosystems

'UK and Europe’s hidden #landfills at risk of leaking toxic waste into water supplies'
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'[Floods] driven by climate change could release chemicals from ageing sites – posing threats to ecosystems'

#ClimateEmergency #unknowns #floods #pollution #DrinkingWater

Toxic Ground A groundbreaking mapping project revealing a cocktail of environmental risks posed by thousands of Europe's landfills.

Toxic Ground - www.investigate-europe.eu/themes/inves... "A groundbreaking mapping project revealing a cocktail of environmental risks posed by thousands of Europe's #landfills." huge, ignored problem

Maine Was First To Ban Spreading PFAS-Contaminated Sludge on Farmland. Now Sludge Is Filling up Landfills. Farmland is everywhere in tiny Unity Township, from neat fields of corn to open cattle pastures. And so are layers of wet organic sludge, a onetime fertilizer that has triggered a crisis over “forever chemicals” in central Maine and how best to rid the land of the poisons. Farmers relied on sludge from local wastewater […]

International Effort to Curb Emissions of a Climate Super Pollutant Falls Short, UN Report Reveals Despite the efforts of more than half of all countries worldwide to curb a key climate super-pollutant, a report released this week by the United Nations Environment Programme at the U.N. climate summit shows that global methane emissions continue to climb at a troubling pace. The report was the first worldwide assessment of the Global […]

#Abfallmanagement #wastemanagement #Methan
#Kommune #Müllkippen #landfills
#Emissionen #emissions #COP30
Jede Kommune weltweit hat #Verantwortung darüber, wie sie mit dem Abfall ihrer Bürger:innen umgeht. Wegschauen gilt nicht.

Sustainable Demolition| Donating Furnishings and Building Materials Sustainable demolition reduces construction waste and keeps useful building materials out of landfills. Matt Hoots shares how he worked with the Lifecycle Building Center in Atlanta to donate…

Reduce construction #waste, save landfill space, and give #furnishings & #buildingmaterials a new life with sustainable #demolition! AND, save on #taxes! buff.ly/3HE4XLA #building #buildings #construction #builders #reuse #recycle #landfills #greenbuilding #sustainability

Remember: Recycling is a lie started by corporations to shift their responsibilities onto the public so they don’t have to follow any guidelines or regulations.

96% ends up in #landfills. Literally the rich burying their cancer-causing slop in the earth, where it will cause further harm forever.