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Every time you fly, you trash the planet & theres no easy fix
2015-01-03 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
FiveThirtyEight: When the latest international Climate Conference wrapped up in Lima, Peru, last month, delegates boarded their flights home without much official discussion of how the planes that shuttled them to the meeting had altered the climate. Aircraft currently contribute about 2.5 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions. That might not seem like much, but if the aviation industry were a country, it would be one of the worlds top 10 emitters of CO2. And its emissions are projected to grow between two...
Metro talks trash as area's waste piles up - Thursday, 25 December 2014 06:00
2014-12-25 09:30:29| Waste Management - Topix.net
In fact, the public will be hearing much more about how to overhaul the region's trash network in 2015. Several hundred contracts with companies that haul, burn, recycle or bury solid waste all expire in 2019.
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Volunteers clean up illegal camp trash along Willamette River
2014-12-20 01:51:49| Railroads - Topix.net
One month after a YouTube video surfaced showing a Willamette River shore littered with trash, dozens of volunteers moved in Friday to clean up what illegal campers left behind. The video shot by Aaron Baker captured the mess left along a 150-yard stretch of waterfront north of Franklin Boulevard.
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5 Trillion Pieces of Ocean Trash Found, But Fewer Particles Than Expected
2014-12-12 00:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: A new study on the amount of plastic pollution floating around the world's oceans found a lot of garbage but fewer small particles than researchers expected, raising new questions about how litter is interacting with the environment. Scientists from the nonprofit advocacy group 5 Gyres published their findings this week in the peer-reviewed journal PLOS ONE. The researchers collected plastic from parts of the ocean with nets and then used computer models to estimate the extent of the garbage problem...
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Fierce debate ends in new trash deal awarded in Whitehall Twp.
2014-12-09 08:53:05| Waste Management - Topix.net
Only after a lengthy and vociferous debate had degenerated into a shouting and name-calling spectacle did the Whitehall Township Board of Commissioners finally award their solid waste and recyclables contract to a different hauler who will adopt a different method of collecting trash and recycling in the township. Waste Management Inc. was awarded the contract for the collection and transportation of solid waste and recyclables over current carrier, J.P. Mascaro following the 4-3 vote Monday night.
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