waste
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Can Australia Safely Burn Waste To Make Fuel Like They Do in Denmark?
When it comes to handling the waste crisis in Australia, options are limited: we either export our waste or bury it. But to achieve current national targets, policy-makers are increasingly asking if we can instead safely burn waste as fuel. Proposals for waste incinerators are being considered in the Greater Sydney region, but these have…
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McDonald’s UK Will Stop Putting Plastic Toys In Happy Meals Next Year
A few months after celebrating the Happy Meal’s 40th anniversary by resurrecting some of its most popular toys, McDonald’s UK has announced that it will be eliminating plastic toys altogether in the the UK and Ireland.
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What’s The Worst Trash Humans Produce?
The world is trash. Even leaving aside the garbage of regular citizens—the many stadiums’ worth of shit and piss, plastic cups and pill bottles, scrapped cars and dead dogs dispensed of every day, every hour of every day—there is the world-withering, endlessly-accumulating waste of the industrial variety, which could toxify every inch of the globe,…
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A Colossal ‘Fatberg’ Clogging London’s Sewer Is Ten Times Bigger Than The Last One
Image: Thames Water A so-called “fatberg” — a tightly congealed mass of fat, wet wipes, diapers, and condoms — is blocking a section of London’s Victorian-era sewage network. It could take weeks for utility crews to remove the horrific mass, which, if not removed, could cause raw sewage to spill onto London’s streets.