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Life Kit : NPR

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Single-Use Plastic Is Everywhere. Here’s How To Use Less Plastic : Life Kit : NPR

The only argument I with this article is this section:

Look at the items on your plastic inventory list and ask yourself, "What can I replace the plastic with?" Chhotray is a big fan of going reusable, and her backpack is proof: "I carry my reusable water bottle, my reusable tumbler because I'm a tea addict. I have bamboo cutlery." She says some days she also carries chopsticks and a reusable straw. "My family sort of makes fun of me because my backpacks are starting to get bigger and bigger every year."

Arellano swapped bath products that came in plastic bottles for ones that come as bars — a shampoo bar and a bar of soap.

I don't think the way to reduce your trash is buy more trash. Seriously, do you need to go out and buy more sustainable products, when you probably already have too much junk? Just go into your cupboard and grab your drinking water bottle or metal silverware. No need to buy a special wood fork, you are going throw away when you can get one from your kitchen. Metal is easier to wash and keep clean, and it's not like metal silverware is real expensive.

NPR

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Cutting Landfill Methane To Fight Climate Change : NPR

A single flip-flop. An empty Chick-fil-A sandwich bag. A mattress. A sneaker, navy with a white sole. A little orange bouncy ball.

Garbage is strewn among thigh-high drifts of dirt, used to bury the filthy, weather-worn items at the Orange County Landfill in Florida and prevent the intrusion of insects, rats and pigs. Bulldozers smooth the dirt into place while tractor-trailers deliver ever more trash. Vultures and seagulls circle above. A bald eagle lands nearby.

"Anything you will see out in the real world you'll see it here," said David Gregory, manager of the solid waste division of the Orange County Utilities Department. "Because when people throw things away, this is where it comes."

A Good Thing

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Poison Control Centers: A Good Thing

6/29/21 by iHeartRadio

Web player: https://podcastaddict.com/episode/125070575
Episode: https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/chtbl.com/track/5899E/traffic.megaphone.fm/HSW4463211272.mp3?updated=1624895023

Poison control centers are one of those things you don’t think about until you need it. With all the poisons in our homes you very well may someday. When you do there is a cadre of toxicological specialists ready to oversee the process of saving your life.

I was reminded again how impermanent most human things are in this world, looking at the various parts of the Empire State Plaza platform that are all torn up to replace leaky roofs under the planters, grass and concrete slabs, to limit water and salt intrusion into the building where it can deteriorate the concrete by causing the rebar to rust and the concrete to spall

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I was reminded again how impermanent most human things are in this world, looking at the various parts of the Empire State Plaza platform that are all torn up to replace leaky roofs under the planters, grass and concrete slabs, to limit water and salt intrusion into the building where it can deteriorate the concrete by causing the rebar to rust and the concrete to spall. Without constant maintance of the Plaza the concrete would quickly deteriorated over a period of a few years. 50 or 100 years after abandonment, there might not be much more then pile of collapsed concrete concrete rubble and rusty piers with trees and bushes all grown over it.