Beyond plastic: How gardeners can reduce landfill waste
How many pots is that? Nearly 242 million. Wow! Historically, more plants were sold as bare-root, ball and burlap, or in ...
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New Jersey targets plastic packaging that fills landfills and pollutes
From bubble wrap to puffy air-filled plastic pockets to those foam peanuts ... lots of what keeps items safe during shipping often ends up in landfills, or in the environment as pollution.
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We Made Plastic. We Depend on It. Now We’re Drowning in It.
The woman carrying the red cloth lives at the landfill ... with a pair of plastic chairs, and lacking plumbing, bedding, or refrigeration. The flat is in a garbage-filled slum named Aroma ...
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The ‘recycled’ plastic in your shoes, shirts, and bags? It’s still destined for the landfill.
Although such reprocessing prolongs the life of the plastic, it’s a one-way trajectory that ultimately ends at a landfill or incinerator. Such a system isn’t recycling, advocates argue — it ...
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America's plastic catastrophe
Just as quickly, it became a target of environmental movements protesting litter, garbage-filled oceans, and landfills brimming with plastic. Oil and chemical companies responded by looking into ...
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The Problem With Plastic Bags
Plastic bags start out as fossil fuels and end up as deadly waste in landfills and the ocean. Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry ...
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How to Tell if Your Black Plastic Cooking Utensils Are Filled With Chemicals
According to The Cut, we have heard about the dangers of black plastic filled with chemicals coming ... like electronics often ends up in our landfills. It's those discarded electronics that ...
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Are paper straws really better for the environment than plastic ones?
“You can find newspapers in landfills where ... are getting rid of single-use items in natural places filled with wildlife, swapping plastic straws for paper straws will make no difference ...
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7 sustainable alternatives to plastic bags — from reusable produce bags to totes made from upcycled denim
Our takeout bags are filled with plastic containers and plastic utensils. A lot of plastic products can be recycled, but the majority of them just end up in landfills and go on to pollute our oceans.