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What Should I Know about Earth’s Floating Islands of Garbage?86

What Should I Know about Earth’s Floating Islands of Garbage?

Have you wondered about the earth's floating patches of garbage? This article explains how such garbage patches got into our oceans and what's being done to reduce or eliminate them.

9 comments    nature science weather
Spending Billions on Garbarge65

Spending Billions on Garbarge

American trash. No, not the culture that many foreign countries consider to be satanic or bad, but literally our waste. No, not the sewer type, the consumerism type that most developed countries also face. Think of the problem- think China. Think...

8 comments    trash garbage landfills
The Mushrooms That Can Treat Breast Cancer, Digest Polyurethane and Replace Styrofoam81

The Mushrooms That Can Treat Breast Cancer, Digest Polyurethane and Replace Styrofoam

Now maybe we can treat cancer and dissolve the Great Plastic Continent of waste in the Pacific Ocean.

14 comments    chemotherapy taxol
Waste as an Important Factor in Environmental Issues:  Human consumption, a logarithm for change76

Waste as an Important Factor in Environmental Issues: Human consumption, a logarithm for change

An important environmental issue is Waste, which includes products of human consumption. Water bottles are representative of the serious environmental concern regarding waste. Family trips to McDonalds result in the accumulation of more waste from the packaging of the food, than the actual food itself. It starts with one person, let me show you how you can make the change. Lets start an "environmental revolution."

1 comment    environment recycle trash
How to Never Forget Your Reusable Grocery Bags74

How to Never Forget Your Reusable Grocery Bags

Reusable shopping bags are a great green way to carry your groceries or shopping items. Place them where you can find them.

42 comments    money shopping green
21 Ways to Help Stop or Reduce Global Warming77

21 Ways to Help Stop or Reduce Global Warming

There are many ways of reducing global warming. Many of them are simple and will even save us money in the long run.

1 comment    global warming recycle go green
Five Creative Uses For Plastic Shopping Bags66

Five Creative Uses For Plastic Shopping Bags

Did you know there are approximately 380 billion plastic bags used every year? A majority are tossed into landfills and only 1%-2% of all plastic bags are recycled.

30 comments    eco-friendly plastic bags
We wish you a wasteful christmas66

We wish you a wasteful christmas

People are getting increasingly more lazy, and products are only helping this along. Vanity and laziness are the two largest detriments to the size of our landfills. Are you one of the contributors?

8 comments    christmas gifts environment
Couponing - Its Environmental and Monetary Footprint69

Couponing - Its Environmental and Monetary Footprint

This article discusses the environmental and monetary footprint of couponing. Looking at the negative impact of couponing and what each consumer can do to help alieviate the problems.

2 comments    environment respect recycle
Will We One Day Mine Our Landfills?59

Will We One Day Mine Our Landfills?

Some interesting facts on the value of thing we throw away.

2 comments    recycling resources landfills
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