Shot
Antifreeze carton I found in a gravel pit, that I played with a bit in GIMP to make it look pretty.
Taken on Friday March 2, 2007 at Trash.
Materials and Waste
The country rejecting throwaway culture – BBC Future
The combination of enthusiastic amateurs, repair cafes and new laws could help tackle the world's growing mountains of broken electronics.
All Landfills Leak, and Our Health and Environment Pay the Toxic Price | Conservation Law Foundation
All Landfills Leak, and Our Health and Environment Pay the Toxic Price | Conservation Law Foundation
There’s simply no such thing as a safe landfill. No matter how many barriers, liners, and pipes we install to try to mitigate the risk, landfills will always leak toxic chemicals into the soil and water.
So let’s not build anymore. Instead, we should solve our waste problem by instituting Zero Waste programs that save money, protect the public health and environment, and create new jobs. We know the right answer – and it’s not more leaking landfills.
Inauguration Day: Live Updates : NPR
President Biden's initial wave of planned executive actions includes an order to reexamine one controversial, but widely used, pesticide called chlorpyrifos. The Trump administration had stepped in to keep the chemical on the market after Obama-era officials tried to ban it.
It's just one in a long list of science-related Trump administration actions that the incoming Biden team will now revisit. In a statement, Biden promised to take a close look at all policies "that were harmful to public health, damaging to the environment, unsupported by the best available science, or otherwise not in the national interest."
Farmers use chlorpyrifos to control insects on a wide variety of crops, including corn, apples, and vegetables. It is among the most toxic pesticides. Workers exposed to it can experience dizziness, headaches, and nausea. Most indoor uses of the pesticide were halted in 2001.
Litter is a big problem with disposable plastic bags
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
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
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.