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Where Are America’s Biggest Landfills?

We live in disposable society where products aren’t made to last, and when they die a premature death (or are simply no longer desired), they’re thrown away. The problem is, there is no ‘away’. ‘Away’ is the thousands of landfills that dot the earth, which are constantly growing in both size and ranks.
Each day in [...]

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Shocking Photos: Bird Bodies Full of Plastic

Lighters, bottle caps, plastic bags and milk jugs. Fishing net, fishing line, zip ties, remnants of food containers. All of this and more floats in a massive vortex of trash in the Pacific Ocean – and in the stomachs of the birds who search for food amid the debris.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is twice [...]

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For Shame: UGA Tailgaters Leave Behind Trash, Sewage

Jerkass fans of the University of Georgia football team descended upon the Athens, Georgia campus last weekend and left a wake of trash, abandoned grills, urine and feces behind when they left. And this is far from the first time it has happened.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that tailgaters left the lawn covered with 70 tons [...]

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Marine Scientists Studying Great Pacific Garbage Patch

The gigantic swirling mass of trash in the middle of the Pacific Ocean will finally get some much-deserved scientific attention as 30 researchers, technicians and crew members embark on a 3-week journey to study how much debris is collecting in the ‘Great Pacific Garbage Patch’.
The California marine scientists left the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, based [...]

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UK Getting its Toxic Waste Back from Brazil

Last week, it was discovered that British companies had been dumping toxic waste in Brazil and Ghana, polluting poor communities and endangering the health of the people who live there. The waste included syringes, condoms and bags of blood along with other hazardous substances. Brazil, for one, isn’t going to take it any more – [...]

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7 (More!) Environmental Problems That Are Worse Than We Thought

How have humans managed to royally screw up the world? Let us count the ways. We already covered mammal extinction, the ocean dead zones, collapsing fish stock, destruction of the rainforest, polar sea ice loss, rising CO2 levels and the fact that there’s way too many of us in the first place. But those certainly [...]

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