waste management
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Will We Ever Be Able to Clean Up All Our Trash?
We die and decompose, but a growing portion of our garbage lives on. Your great-grandfather’s bones have become organic matter in the soil, but the same cannot be said for the Mr. Goodbar wrapper he discarded 80 years ago today. Our landfills are poorly organised museums, robustly endowed and expanding by the second. Some, of…
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The Staggering Amount Of Plastic We’ve Produced, And What We’ve Done With It
Scientists have calculated the total amount of plastic ever made. Spoiler alert: It’s a lot. But what’s even more disturbing is where all this plastic is ending up.
