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What a load of rubbish we humans are

2016-01-08 19:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: What is it, were sometimes asked, that makes us human? What is it that marks our species out among all the others on this big ole blue space-marble we call Earth? Tool use? No, any number of other creatures use tools; corvids especially well. Is it that we have sex face-to-face? Bonobos do that and, for all I can tell, so do earthworms. That we laugh? Hyenas and orangutans have that covered, and judging by the look it gave me when I fell down the stairs in my dressing gown, so does my cat. That...

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Cleaning up Britain: in the frontline of the fight against rubbish

2015-05-30 23:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Villiers Street in the West End would be Londons foulest road if not for Hasan Akin. He and a team of seven cleaners collect up to 70 large sacks of cigarette butts, crisp packets, chewing gum and fast-food litter every day. The 500-metre street, which runs between the Embankment and Charing Cross station, has 11 fast-food joints, three pubs, a nightclub, cafes, corporate offices and private homes. Last week Akin and his team counted many thousands of bits of chewing gum stuck to the road,...

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