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Build, demolish, repeat. It’s a cycle that generates mountains of debris around the world – debris that ends up in landfills – or worse, in the environment. That material actually harbors great recycling potential. India still only reuses a meagre one percent of its construction and demolition waste. Our reporter hit the streets of Delhi to find out why.
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Supervising Producer: Nooshin Mowla Script & Field Producer: Jessica Goel Video Editor: Amit Garg (Metro Media Works) Associate Producer: Ipsita Basu Director of Photography: Richard Kujur
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Landfills are highly hazardous to the environment. There is always wet waste that is rotting, polluting the groundwater and soil, methane gas is coming out because of the decomposition of the wet waste, which is one of the most potent greenhouse gases. Secondly, the gas is also a part of whole the climate change thing and lastly there is always a risk of diseases as there are a lot of flies and mosquitoes which breed on this waste. Currently, at the Ghazipur landfill we have all kind of waste – be it sanitary waste, covid masks, battery or e-waste. The landfill is basically a dumpsite, which gets each and everything that the city uses. Not just environment, it is very harmful for the people living nearby. Daily inhalation of all the toxic fumes coming out of the landfill is very dangerous. You can imagine, when you pass by the landfill or the garbage dump you close your mouth because the smell is just unbearable. Imagine, the life of people who work in the landfill. They have constant headaches, nausea, vomits, bronchitis, spinal problem, all this is part of their daily life. People are living all around the landfills, this in itself is a big no no.
Chitra Mukherjee, consultant, waste and sustainable livelihood
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Wireless Heater Made From a Leaf Skeleton Is Fully Biodegradable
Wireless Heater Made From a Leaf Skeleton Is Fully Biodegradable
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“We’ve gotten very, very good at making things that are cheap and durable. Unfortunately, there are some deleterious side effects. Among them: Our society generates massive amounts of waste that is going to remain in landfills for a long time. What’s more, the process of making these goods is also bad for the environment, considering raw materials, refining, supply chain,…
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Environmental Impact of Landfills Near Me
Landfills play a crucial role in managing waste and disposing of materials that society no longer needs. However, when these landfills are situated near residential areas, they can pose significant environmental and health risks to nearby communities. In this article, we’ll explore the environmental impact of landfills near me, examining the health risks associated with living nearby, the…
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Oilfield Waste Company Ordered to Sell Assets, Restoring Competition for Oilfield Waste Disposal Services in Western Canada
#Alberta #anticompetitive #anticompetitivebehavior #Canadianoperations #CompetitionBureau #consumerinterests #divestassets #equipment #Innovation #landfills #lowerprices #market #marketplace #merger #oilfieldwastecompany #oilfieldwastedisposalservices #regulatoryrequirements #restorecompetition #rivalfirm #Saskatchewan #smallerplayers #treatmentplants #WesternCanada
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Companies dump more stuff into garbage landfills than they make money off of.
But good news for them according to tax codes they get write offs for that so they get paid for “loses” .
(Stupid system because that money comes from US tax payers 🙄)
Hollywood does it , retail stores do it ect.
So any “loss” isn’t a loss for them.
But don’t ever let them convince you polllution is YOUR problem.
It’s theirs.
They make and produce the junk and then dispose of its
#mass garbage#garbage#landfills#pollution#trash#taxes tax write off#Tax codes#employers#Hollywood#movies#tv#film#ect.#tax money
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THE NARWHAL -- Want to reduce food waste, Ontario? Be more like Vancouver
BY SARAH BARTNICKA (FJHI '24) -- Over 60 per cent of Ontario’s food waste ends up in landfills producing methane, even though the fixes are right in front of us. READ MORE.
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“Enigmatic chemical reactions” have broken out underground inside two Los Angeles-area landfills, according to the L.A. Times. These “highly unusual reactions at Los Angeles County’s two largest landfills have raised serious questions about the region’s long-standing approach to waste disposal and its aging dumps.”
If landfills are the extreme endpoint of a cultural practice of burial—we bury to memorialize, to forget, to protect, to hide, store, and retrieve—then the idea that what we’ve made subterranean might take on a life or chemical activity of its own has a strange irony. Landfills seem to fully embody the idea that we don’t understand the extent of we’ve placed into the ground, nor what it does once we leave it there. Perhaps we also bury to reinvigorate and transform.
I’m reminded of a story from the British nuclear facility at Sellafield, whose new owners realized they had incomplete documentation of the site and thus had no idea where radioactive waste had been buried there. They actually put an ad in the local newspaper saying, “We need your help. Did you work at Sellafield in the 1960s, 1970s or 1980s? Were you by chance in the job of disposing of radioactive material? If so, the owners of Britain’s nuclear waste dump would very much like to hear from you: they want you to tell them what you dumped—and where you put it.”
It feels oddly on-brand with modern living that we might not fully understand long-term landfill chemistry, that random solvents, dyes, acids, fuels, and detergents sloshing around together in huge, sealed landscapes for decades might break out in unexplained reactions, like inadvertent batteries—that we isolated our waste, thinking it would make us safe, but it is only gaining in chemical power.
As of November 2023, the “reaction area” in one of the L.A. dumps “had grown by 30 to 35 acres, according to the agency [CalRecycle]. Already, the heat has melted or deformed the landfill’s gas collection system, which consists mostly of polyvinyl chloride well casings. The damage has hindered the facility’s efforts to collect toxic pollutants.” This seems to imply it will get worse, and nearby residents have begun reporting chemical smells.
“The bad news,” L.A. County Supervisor Kathryn Barger told the paper, “is we’ve never seen anything like this, and if we don’t understand what triggered it, it could happen at other landfills that are dormant. So it’s important for us to get a handle on it.” The earth, riddled with dormant landfills, attaining enigmatic chemical vigor in the darkness.
(Related: Class Action, Land of Fires, and The Landscape Architecture of Crisis.)
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If You Were Buying A New Computer Or Receiving A Previously-Owned Machine... You Need To Remove Windows
Untold; unsold computers with previous versions of Windows are discarded at landfills,–causing electronic waste to rise. However; helping to ditch Microsoft Windows is key to help reduce electronic waste.
Everyday, new computers being advertised with new versions of Windows has caused older machines to be end up on a huge pile of unsold items,–causing these machines to be wasted. With all of that…
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'We came from a generation that is very entitled and very privileged to be able to consume things really fast' — Founder of Purpose Plastics, Abe Lim, explains why we should be conscious of our plastic usage
This video was created in collaboration with Nature's Newsroom.
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New Recycling Method Fights Plastic Waste - Technology Org
New Post has been published on https://thedigitalinsider.com/new-recycling-method-fights-plastic-waste-technology-org/
New Recycling Method Fights Plastic Waste - Technology Org
Almost 80% of plastic in the waste stream ends up in landfills or accumulates in the environment. The new recycling method aims to change this trend.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists have developed a technology that converts a conventionally unrecyclable mixture of plastic waste into useful chemicals, presenting a new strategy in the toolkit to combat global plastic waste.
Valuable chemicals are selectively produced from mixed plastic waste by an ORNL-developed plastic deconstruction recycling process. Image credit: Tomonori Saito, Md Arifuzzaman and Adam Malin, ORNL/U.S. Dept. of Energy
The technology, invented by ORNL’s Tomonori Saito and former postdoctoral researcher Md Arifuzzaman, uses an exceptionally efficient organocatalyst that allows selective deconstruction of various plastics, including a mixture of diverse consumer plastics. Arifuzzaman, now with Re-Du, is a current Innovation Crossroads fellow.
Production of chemicals from plastic waste requires less energy and releases fewer greenhouse gases than conventional petroleum-based production. Such a pathway provides a critical step toward a net-zero society, the scientists said.
“This concept offers highly efficient and low-carbon chemical recycling of plastics and presents a promising strategy toward establishing closed-loop circularity of plastics,” said Saito, corresponding author of the study published in Materials Horizons.
Source: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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Papa Got A Brand New Bag And It's not Eco-Friendly
We’ve got this. It’s in the bag.
A former neighbor, upon getting asked “paper or plastic” by a grocery store cashier, replied she preferred to use a credit card. And no, she wasn’t half in the bag. Her scattered mind centered on payment methods, not conveyance modalities. Although I’ve called credit cards plastic, I never referred to cash as paper. Drinks are on me boys! I’ve got deep…
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Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Duquesne University initially set out to investigate whether sediment in rivers and streams near landfills accepting higher volumes of oil and gas waste contained higher levels of radioactivity. But they discovered significant problems with the records meant to track this waste.
“We set out to write a different paper,” Daniel Bain, an associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh and one of the authors of the study, told Environmental Health News (EHN), “but once we got into the records, we realized there was no hope of being able to meaningfully do this kind of assessment.”
The study, published in the journal Ecological Indicators, compared records on Pennsylvania’s oil and gas waste from 2010-2020, and uncovered significant gaps between what oil and gas operators reported they’d sent to landfills and what the landfills reported receiving. The records were so different, the researchers couldn’t find a single case where the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection’s (DEP) Oil & Gas Report figures on this hazardous waste matched reports from the landfills receiving it.
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The industry self-reports how much waste it sends to landfills, and the DEP collects that data in its annual oil and gas reports. Landfills that receive the waste weigh it and keep their own records. In some cases, the differences between these two sets of records were vast.
For example, the 2019 oil and gas report said that 29,221 tons of waste were sent to the Arden landfill in Washington County, Pennsylvania, but the landfill’s records showed that it received 269,480 tons of waste that year — a difference of 240,259 tons. In total, the study found that around 800,000 tons of hazardous oil and gas waste was unaccounted for in official records.
“Everything is self-reported and the [Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection] is understaffed and doesn’t have the resources to double-check,”
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Burning Plastic or Sending it to a Landfill: Which is the Better Option?
Plastic, we see it everywhere – in our homes, streets, and oceans. But what happens to all that plastic when we’re done with it? Some folks suggest burning it, while others say it’s better to chuck it in a landfill. Let’s break down these two options and figure out which is best for our planet.
The Environmental Impact of Burning Plastic
Burning plastic may seem like a convenient solution to…
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