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Blog
Japanese city to name and shame people who break trash rules
While many cities in Japan open garbage bags to inspect them, and some allow for the disclosure of offending businesses,…
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Politics
Disasters turn homes into trash. This insurance company aims to recycle it
Floods soak entire basements into piles of muddy and soggy furniture, wood and drywall. Hailstorms smash windows and take chunks…
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Entrepreneurship
Everyone dumps their trash in this D.C. forest. One nonprofit wants to clean it up
D.C.’s poorest neighborhood has a massive urban forest, and yet it’s plagued by a lack of maintenance, illegal dumping, and…
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Discoveries & Research
Carbon recycling instead of plastic trash
Plastics are inescapable in our daily lives. The vast amounts of plastic garbage heaped in landfills and in the environment,…
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Space
Satellites can now spot plastic trash on Earth’s beaches from space (photo)
Plastic littered across the world’s beaches can now be detected from space. Researchers from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology…
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Space
Like Wall-E, this lovable trash compactor will help ISS astronauts take out the garbage (photo)
Sierra Space plans to launch a trash compactor to the space station in two years — and some media outlets…
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Entrepreneurship
Are back-to-back hurricanes the price we’re willing to pay for trash fashion?
Fast fashion brand Shein posted major growth—the same week hurricanes left Florida in devastation. Last week, while I received text…
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