landfills
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New Jersey tackles food waste and hunger — for the climate
A new law aims to cut the state's food waste in half by 2030.
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Watch America’s trash problem keep getting bigger
This map shows where landfills have sprung up over the last 100 years.
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My mother-in-law died. What should I do with her expired cans of food?
Is it better to send old food to the landfill or down the drain? And how can we tame the food-waste beast in our kitchens? Umbra Fisk cooks up an answer.
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These biodegradable computer chips are made from wood
And they work just as well as their silicon-based counterparts.
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99 red balloons can power 4,500 homes
This wins for most charming solar concept based on a one-hit wonder from the ‘80s, and maybe most charming solar concept ever.
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These weed-eating goats make more money than you
Staten Island’s Freshkills Park, a former landfill that’s being transformed into a public parkland and “laboratory for green practices,” is engaging in job creation — for goats. Twenty Anglo-Nubian goats are nibbling away at invasive weeds called phragmites, as one step of the wetlands restoration process that will turn Freshkills less killy and more fresh. […]
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Old dumps, new tricks: Turning landfills into nature preserves
The Brookfield landfill was a neighborhood menace for decades. Now, it’s becoming a park with woods and wetlands -- something the experts didn’t think could be done.
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Brits make disused landfill into wildlife sanctuary
There are a few options of what to do with an old landfill: cover it over and leave it alone; turn it into a field for solar panels; convince people to play soccer on top of it. One town in England is going a step further and returning a decommissioned landfill to nature. The 16-acre […]
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Don’t bag your leaves — they just go in landfills
Awesome, an excuse to be lazy in the fall! Melissa Hopkins, a spokesperson for the National Audobon Society, is encouraging people not to bag up their leaves, because 8 million tons of them end up in landfills every year. (The leaves are biodegradable, of course, but the bags are not.) Instead, you can compost them, […]