The U.S. is known as the land of mass consumption, and all of the leftover eventually ends up in the same place: the trash can. Everything about the waste management sector in the U.S. is big. Americans are among the largest waste producers worldwide, and the nation is home to ...
Plastic bags are, on average, only used for about 12 minutes, Environment Massachusetts reports. Plastic bags are the most commonly found trash during coastal clean ups, according to PADI. The impact of plastic bags has not gone unnoticed. More and more states are now actively seeking to red...
How do they end up in the Ocean? Plastic bags are so lightweight and aerodynamic, that even if we dispose of them properly, they can escape with the wind. They escape from our trash cans, garbage trucks and landfills and they go where the wind takes them – polluting our environment unt...
If you were to look in your trash can, you would see that there are many different types of trash. Only certain materials can be recycled: glass, paper, plastic, and metal are the main recyclables, though some recycling centers will also take organics like banana peels and chicken bones....
The rationale is clear—plastic bags are one of the most prevalent items of trash in both landfills and the ocean and this, combined with the fact that plastic bag recycling is now on the rise, means many more states are likely to follow suit in the coming months and years. ...
have been found to catch marine animals as well as the intended garbage. Seabins work bysucking water from the surface, filtering it, and returning clean water to the ocean. However, a study has found that for every 3.6 pieces of trash a Seabin catches, one marine animal is also trapped...
Trading in your device can help the planet — but when it’s time for people to update their devices, their old tech often ends up in the trash heap. Here are some global electronic waste facts. As a consequence of e-waste, 58% of the population expresses alarm or concern about ...
walnuts. When it comes to meat, raccoons consume more invertebrates than vertebrates, according to the ADW. Some of the raccoon’s favorite animal treats are frogs, fish, crayfish, insects, rodents and bird eggs. When food is scarce, raccoons aren’t above scavenging human trash or eating ...
Fact 13.Every year we dump 14 billion pounds of trash into the ocean rather than either recycling it or disposing of it properly indesignated landfills. Fact 14.There is a ‘garbage patch’ in the Pacific Ocean that is just a twisting and turning vortex of trash and waste. Its size is ...
If you don’t mind getting up at the crack of dawn, working in all kinds of weather, lifting thousands of pounds, and smelling some of the worst stuff on the planet, a garbage man salary may be just the right thing for you. But the truths about trash collecting are not just the...