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As trash is increasing from year to year, it has been a worry for many countries. According to an article written in Foreign Policy magazine which covered the trash statistics, the world is throwing out 2 billion tons of garbage every year and the...
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Me and those who are reading this, and even all those who are not, are the biggest contributors toward the increasing environmental hazards. Some might stress on the...
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The garbage collectors of Cairo live in neighborhoods spilling over with trash. The children play with the trash and in the trash, when they are not helping to sort or...
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Environmentalists have always promoted recycling as the best way to preserve the scarce resources nature has bestowed on mankind. Be it recycling for fun or...
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We make trash out of anything, while modder Amnon has made a DIY garbage bin that operates via voice commands. Matching our ability to make trash and complementing...
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Eco Factor: Rafts made from recycled materials encourage recycling.
Brooklyn-based artist, Swoon, knows how to use trash to encourage people to conserve the...
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AP, Pittsburgh
When Pittsburgh residents think of trash, the city’s mayor wants them to think of him.
made popular Feb 18 2009
Eco Factor: Truck powered by electricity generated from trash.
Trucks with their massive engines are the main culprits of air pollution in urban cities. Greening these...
made popular Jan 31 2009
AP, Jersey City
Police who searched dumps in three states for the remains of a baby thrown out in a Jersey City hospital’s trash gave up Thursday, saying they had little chance...
made popular Jan 8 2009
AP, Jersey City
Police are searching garbage dumps in New Jersey and Pennsylvania for the body of a baby that was apparently thrown out with the trash at a Jersey City hospital.
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AP, St. George
The economic downturn has even reached the trash on the curb, and that’s hurting some sanitation workers.
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Eco Factor: Architect designs amazing utilities from trashed objects.
Look around your house or better yet, go to your garage and check it out, there might be some...
made popular Dec 16 2008
AP, London
British police say a trash collector can hold on to the mound of mutilated cash he found stuffed into a wastebasket in the English town of Lincoln earlier this year.
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The idea of turning trash into art is all the rage these days. While MotoArt creates stunning home fixtures from vintage aviation parts, Jeff Clapp has turned his...
made popular Nov 26 2008
Ingrid Goldbloom Bloch’s under-armor is a handmade collection of lingerie (bustiers, garters and underpants), made entirely from recycled soda cans and hardware. The...
made popular Nov 6 2008
AP, Santiago
Hundreds of Mexicans wearing rubber gloves are fishing for bottles, plastic bags and tin cans in a competition to clean a reservoir near Texas.
made popular Sep 13 2008
EcoFactor: Trash recycled to give birth to animated sculptures for an extraordinary show.
Time and again, Ecofriend has been bringing artistic sculptures crafted out...
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Millions of tons of rubbish carefully sorted into recycling bins by householders may never actually be recycled, town hall chiefs admitted.
Many of the council bosses...
made popular Sep 5 2008
AP, New Haven
A Connecticut trash hauler was sentenced to more than seven years in prison Wednesday for a price-fixing conspiracy that authorities say was supported by mob muscle,...
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AP, Little Falls
A 40-year-old man was jailed after leading deputies on a 57-mile chase, in a garbage truck. At one point, a Morrison County sheriff’s deputy tried to stop the...
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AP, Mosul
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AP, Madrid
Spain’s capital city is full of many wonderful things, but nobody could accuse its inhabitants of being overly tidy. Broken bottles litter the streets, cigarette...
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Ever thought your unused utensils and other household items could be molded into captivating home décor products? Well, Gilles Eichenbaum, also known as Garbage is a...
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Eco Factor: Architect designs amazing utilities from trashed objects.
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Eco Factor: Water bottles made from recycled materials.
Statistics show that 60 million plastic bottles are thrown away daily in the United States, 86% out of them...
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We Indians seem to be least bothered with the problem of garbage all over; we are just not perturbed by our dirty roads and public places. We are a confident breed and...
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Just last week I posted a newslink about million of tons of garbage disappearing. And now read on to know where it is landing.
Garbage is literally flying and hitting...
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This sounded initially like one of those super machines in cartoons that compressed trash or a new gadget that could shrink stuff. This is where Hollywood takes over...
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Who can forget the historical sci-fi moment when the Dr Emmet Brown of “Back to the Future” fame shoved some garbage into his time car to make it run?
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AP, Hartford
Garbage disposal company Republic Services Inc. says its board unanimously rejected a $6.19 billion unsolicited takeover offer from rival Waste Management Inc.,...
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AP, Traverse City
Hundreds of pounds of household garbage has washed onto Lake Michigan shores in the past couple of days, leading to an investigation by the Coast Guard and the...
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AP, Ludington
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AP, Rome
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A dog walks down a street in central Madrid, Wednesday, March 4, 2009. A strong squad of 300 ‘garbage police’ will be patrolling the streets soon. The garbage squad will be set up in coming weeks, using people already employed by the city’s...
