What Happens to Trash? What Is a Landfill? Getting Approval to Build a Landfill Parts of a Landfill How Landfills Operate How Much Trash Does the U.S. Generate? Of the 292.4 million tons (265.3 million metric tons) per year of trash that the U.S. generated in 2018, the most re...
Think about how much trash there is in a single shopping trip — it often starts off with a paper list and ends up with plastic bags that you throw away. All the while, you’re wasting products left and right. This is really upsetting for people who want to leave a small footprint o...
Every day New York City picks up 12,000 tons of refuse and recycling. How does all this trash go from the garbage can to its final destination? Former New York City Sanitation Commissioner Ed Grayson is here to explain.
What Happens to Trash? What Is a Landfill? Getting Approval to Build a Landfill Parts of a Landfill How Landfills Operate How Much Trash Does the U.S. Generate? Of the 292.4 million tons (265.3 million metric tons) per year of trash that the U.S. generated in 2018, the most re...
What Happens to Trash? What Is a Landfill? Getting Approval to Build a Landfill Parts of a Landfill How Landfills Operate How Much Trash Does the U.S. Generate? Of the 292.4 million tons (265.3 million metric tons) per year of trash that the U.S. generated in 2018, the most re...
Recycling is important for many reasons, including the fact that it can help reduce the amount of waste that ends up in landfills and oceans. This can help alleviate environmental issues, such as pollution and habitat destruction. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below Why are there different recyc...
Wrapping paper is ridiculous. It’s reportedly a roughly $7 billion business in the U.S. alone, as people buy it by the sheet, roll, or carefully curated package via Etsy. It creates millions of tons of waste; someestimates claimhalf of it ends up in landfills. While many greet those...
Really try to limit toys made from plastic which can end up in landfills where they’ll never decompose. And since dogs (and cats!) tend to get bored easily of toys, consider donating gently used toys to your local animal rescue. The toys will get a much longer life and you’ll bring...
Today it’s hard to see any trash or even garbage bins while walking through Taipei. Yet this transformation was hardly conceivable just 25 years ago, when the island struggled so much to clean up the waste resulting from rising living standards and soaring consumption that...
studyfound that around 90% of all the plastic in the world’s oceans flows there through just 10 rivers. Eight of those rivers were in Asia, and two in Africa. They all run through highly populated areas, which also lack effective waste collection, meaning trash often ends up in the ...