waste
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Australian Scientists Are Turning Cigarette Butts Into ‘Cooling’ Building Materials
About 6 trillion cigarette butts are produced every year worldwide, leading to more than 1.2 million tonnes of cigarette butt waste. This is set to increase by more than 50 per cent by 2025, mainly due to an increase in world population. Now an Australian research team is developing a way for cigarette butts can…
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Biodegradable Vibrators Won’t Screw The Earth
Something like $3,050,000,000 worth of vibrators are sold every year — that’s 60 million vibrators. After a lifetime of service, when they have given out their last little buzz, where do they go? Into landfill. And that’s a problem the world’s first biodegradable vibrator hopes to solve.
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Are We Recycling Too Much Of Our Trash?
A recent credible study suggests the amount of waste Americans dispose in landfills each year is over twice what the EPA had been estimating.
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NYC Produces Twice As Much Garbage As Any Other Large City On Earth
New York City is great at a lot of things. Walking! Skyscrapers! Pizza! And according to a new study on the world’s megacities, NYC can add one more thing to its list of things it excels at: Trash!