Fire pits are not trash pits 🔥🚮

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Fire pits are not trash pits 🔥🚮

It annoys me to no end to find litter left in fire pits up in the woods. I don’t care if you burn it – I certainly do – but just go through the ash and pack out what doesn’t burn completely. And don’t leave your cigerette pack, your drink bottle or paper for the next person to use as kindling. Thank you, we have enough litter to use ourselves to start a fire.

Killing the invasive species is your new pandemic hobby.

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Spotted lanternfly: Killing the invasive species is your new pandemic hobby.

If you need to get your mind off the pandemic for a moment, shift it to another plague sweeping the state: spotted lanternflies. It’s one you can play an immediate, and feel-good, role in fixing. And your mission is pretty simple: Find and kill the invasive species’ eggs. Who’s ready to get smashing?

“Honestly, it’s something fun you can be doing outside right now,” says Shannon Powers, press secretary for the state Department of Agriculture. “If you’ve got kids, keep them occupied by just sending them out and telling them to look for these treasures they need to destroy.”

Critics alarmed by US nuclear agency’s bid to relax rules on radioactive waste | Environment | The Guardian

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Critics alarmed by US nuclear agency’s bid to relax rules on radioactive waste | Environment | The Guardian

The federal agency providing oversight of the commercial nuclear sector is attempting to push through a rule change critics say could allow dangerous amounts of radioactive material to be disposed of in places like municipal landfills, with potentially serious consequences to human health and the environment. Coca-Cola and Pepsi falling short on pledges over plastic – report Read more

“This would be the most massive deregulation of radioactive waste in American history,” said Dan Hirsch, president of the Committee to Bridge the Gap, a nuclear industry watchdog non-profit, about a proposal that would permit “very low-level” radioactive waste to be disposed of by “land burial”.