garbage
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How Can I Get This Horse-Powered Garbage Truck To My Neighbourhood?
I had just decided that the sanitation trucks which come rumbling down my street at dawn — spewing diesel, making my house shudder, flinging the occasional recycling bin across the street with their robot arms — are a necessary nuisance for a city dweller. Until I saw this trash collection service that uses horse-drawn wagons.
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‘Biodegradable’ Plastic Is Not So Biodegradable After All
Biodegradable plastic, now often found in plastic bags and bottles, contains additives that are supposed to get microbes to break down tough plastic faster. But a new study from Michigan State University finds that some of these additives may actually doing, well, jack shit.
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Watch Recycled Paper Go From Rubbish To Brand-New Boxes
New York City fills recycle bins with tons and tons of discarded paper. That cast-off fibre lives to serve another day, thanks to the wonders of recycling. NYC Sanitation’s director of photography Michael Anton followed that voyage from start to finish, creating this beautiful timelapse of the process.
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A Plane Fuelled By Garbage Could Soon Fly You From New York To London
British Airways has an ambitious and smelly plan: convert municipal waste into 120,000 tonnes of jet fuel. By 2017, they say, the first factory in the world to turn garbage into jet fuel will be up and running. Waste-fuelled transatlantic flights could come soon after.