Most likely, the trash will end up in a landfill in your state. Landfills must be far away from cities for environmental reasons. Along the way, the trash stops at transfer stations and recycling facilities. In the best-case scenario, the trash will be incinerated, and the process this ent...
Many years ago, trash was burned in incinerators, but they didn’t meet the air standards of the EPA and they didn’t generate much power. “They were also an annoyance to people in the area,” says John Doherty, commissioner of the New York City Department of Sanitation. “Then there ...
With recycling, everyone wins. Usable materials that would otherwise end up in a landfill go back into the manufacturing process, making it possible to manufacture products for less cost while lessening the drain on limited resources at the same time. People of all ages and backgrounds can parti...
A circular economy intends to stop waste from being created in the first place — a complete 180 from our current “take-make-waste” economy, which means we take materials from the Earth, create products from them and eventually trash them. Take a chip bag, for example. It's designed to...
After youve discovered that 54 pens dont even work, or that the sugar packets are rock-hard, then you can put the items directly into the trash or into a box labeled to go elsewhere. ? Contain. Now comes the step most people leave out. Stop and think―if you put all that stuff ...
Somehow, separating plastics, cans, paper and glass for the recycle box is too difficult. And people love those plastic grocery bags because they fit perfectly in the small trash bins at home. They don't realize that those plastic bags are going to remain in the earth for millions of years...