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Bottles and Cell Phones and Cans, Oh My! What Does Your Town Recycle?
I love my little town. Wendell, MA, founded in 1781, home to about 900 souls, was named for a Boston judge. We’re only 90 minutes from Boston, and 3 hours from NYC, but the clocks all stopped here in 1968. Or so it seems. Our town motto: “Just a stone’s throw from reality.”
The Circle Economy
“… and go round and round and round in the circle game.” — Joni Mitchell
Ten Stories You May Have Missed This Week
Let Buildings Rise Again and Again: Construction Waste as a Resource
It saves money and energy to reuse materials and structures.
Diapers: Why the Meat is So Tender
After three months of looking in waste bins in northern Europe, I traveled to Mexico in Jan 2009. Academically, I wanted to juxtapose waste management in developing countries with the systems I had seen in Europe. Recreationally, I wanted to get some sun and learn how to kite-board.
Xerox Invents Erasable Paper to Reduce Waste!
Find out how Xerox is going green with reusable paper! Let’s face the facts: no matter how much we try to recycle or cut down on our paper use, we consume paper every day. Whether it’s to get the daily memo at work, or to write down our grocery list, we use paper like it’s nobody’s business!
Love Food, Hate Waste
One third of the food we buy gets thrown away.
Nuclear Dawn: Saving the World From - WITH - Radioactive Waste
Nuclear Waste - “hot rods” of spent uranium in cooling ponds all around the world, radioactive for a million years, raw material waiting for terrorist dirty bombs, a terrifying constant danger for present and future generations.
Bad, right? Well maybe not. Maybe….good. Seems there’s technology afoot that can recycle radioactive resources into clean carbon free energy, all while reducing the nuclear threat.
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