waste
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Environmental Activists Glue Themselves to Roadway in Berlin
Protestors in Berlin, Germany glued themselves to a main roadway Monday morning, demanding legislation against food waste and cuts in greenhouse gas emissions from the agricultural industry. Their protest caused major traffic jams in the capital and followed actions held throughout Germany last week. More than 20 activists organised by the group “Last Generation” took part…
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Sewage From Passing Plane ‘Splattered’ Man In His Garden
Scottish comic Billy Connolly has a sketch about a machine that throws human waste out into the air whenever you flush a plane toilet. He calls it the Jobbie Weeker. It’s all very funny, and very much not how plane toilets work. But that hasn’t helped one unsuspecting gardener who was showered in shit from…
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‘Underwater Roombas’ Help Start Cleanup of Decades-Old Toxic Waste Dump Along California Coast
A research vessel launched this week is on an urgent mission to map out damage from a long-overlooked crisis on the ocean floor, and they’re putting robots to work to help.
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Can Australia Safely Burn Waste To Make Fuel Like They Do in Denmark?
When it comes to handling the waste crisis in Australia, options are limited: we either export our waste or bury it. But to achieve current national targets, policy-makers are increasingly asking if we can instead safely burn waste as fuel. Proposals for waste incinerators are being considered in the Greater Sydney region, but these have…