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Litter is a big problem with disposable plastic bags

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Litter is a big problem with disposable plastic bags. 🛄

They blow out car windows, out of trash cans, trash truck and landfills. It’s so easy for them to float away and be floating in the trees.

You can talk about responsibility but it’s not like most people are intentionally littering them – they just are very light and blow away and can stay hung in trees for a long time. Visit any city or busy highway. Visit an area around a landfill.

Reusable bags are heavier than plastic bags, they’re much less likely to become litter.

Online shopping has shifted recycling responsibilities to consumers – The Verge

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Online shopping has shifted recycling responsibilities to consumers – The Verge

The fate of cardboard boxes in the US rests in the hands of consumers more than it ever has been before. In the past, brick-and-mortar retailers handled much of the leftover packaging from shipments. Malls and grocery stores usually send big bales of used but relatively clean cardboard to recycling programs so that they can be made into new boxes. Now, the rise of e-commerce, which started before the pandemic, has shifted more responsibility onto shoppers to properly dispose of boxes so that they can be recycled. Boxes are piling up on residential curbsides instead of at retail stores.

Fifty years after

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DDT and Silent Spring: Fifty years after

The impact of T on human health received worldwide attention from the general public, political and scientific communities, with the publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring.1 In Silent Spring, Carson described a series of harmful effects on the environment and wildlife resulting from the use of T and other similar compounds. ifty years later the book and the issues raised remain controversial. T, which had been effectively used to eradicate malaria carrying mosquitoes, continues to be a major public health problem and effective treatment and prevention efforts are still necessary.

Online shopping has shifted recycling responsibilities to consumers – The Verge

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Online shopping has shifted recycling responsibilities to consumers – The Verge

The fate of cardboard boxes in the US rests in the hands of consumers more than it ever has been before. In the past, brick-and-mortar retailers handled much of the leftover packaging from shipments. Malls and grocery stores usually send big bales of used but relatively clean cardboard to recycling programs so that they can be made into new boxes. Now, the rise of e-commerce, which started before the pandemic, has shifted more responsibility onto shoppers to properly dispose of boxes so that they can be recycled. Boxes are piling up on residential curbsides instead of at retail stores.
Map: Oliverea Mapledale Trail