In less than four years, San Francisco plans to stop sending any trash to landfills. Oakland has the same goal; Seattle, L.A., New York, and a few other cities hope to follow. A recent map shows how far the rest of the country will have to come to catch up. There are 2,000 ac...
Modern landfills are well-engineered and managed to protect the environment from contaminants. They also must meet strict local and federal regulations in the United States. Michael Milner/Getty Images On trash pickup day in your neighborhood, you drag your trashcans to the curb, and workers ...
Modern landfills are well-engineered and managed to protect the environment from contaminants. They also must meet strict local and federal regulations in the United States. Michael Milner/Getty Images On trash pickup day in your neighborhood, you drag your trashcans to the curb, and workers ...
Modern landfills are well-engineered and managed to protect the environment from contaminants. They also must meet strict local and federal regulations in the United States. Michael Milner/Getty Images On trash pickup day in your neighborhood, you drag your trashcans to the curb, and workers ...
in the morning the air is clearer than it is in the evening. / At dawn the sun has to be pretty close to the horizon before it starts lighting up the sky. 1. Listen to the following passage. Altogether the passage will be read to you four times. During the first reading, which wil...
These are sights we’re all too familiar with – plastic floating in the oceans or piled up in bursting landfills. And whilst our instinct might be to demonise the material itself, arguably the main problem is how we use ...
1. True or false: Every year, 125 million tennis balls end up in landfills in the USA. True. Every year, 125 million tennis balls end up in landfills in the USA. Read More: 11 Smart Uses for Old Tennis Balls 2. Where is the deepest lake in the world located? Argentina Siberia Tanz...
B. Work together to protect the ecosystem. C. Put something they don’t need in the landfills. D. Stop companies doing harmful things to the forest. 3. Why do we have to put a bell around the cat’s neck when it goes outdoors? A. Because it can make other little animals afraid of...
This makes it difficult to process the garbage, and much of it will be put into landfills (垃圾场) instead of being recycled. But by encouraging people with rewards, I think that Xiaohuanggou may raise public awareness (提升公众意识) of garbage sorting. Human beings live on the earth. It...
Across the world, humans buy around 1.3 billion single-use plastic bottles a day. However, only about 9% of them are recycled and most of them end up in landfills, the ocean or elsewhere in nature. When beach-loving Madison Checketts noticed that many plastic bottles polluted the sand durin...