waste
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Staggering Quantities of Valuable Metals Are Winding Up in the Garbage Bin
To build all of the solar panels, wind turbines, electric vehicle batteries, and other technologies necessary to fight climate change, we’re going to need a lot more metals. Mining those metals from the Earth creates damage and pollution that threaten ecosystems and communities. But there’s another potential source of the copper, nickel, aluminum, and rare-earth…
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Influencers Gas Up Shein After Sketchy Factory Tour: No Slave Labour Here!
Influencers say they’re correcting the ‘misinformation’ about labour practices and dangerous products after a trip paid for by Chinese fast fashion giant.
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Amazon’s Plastic Waste Soared in 2021, Report Finds
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U.S. to Ban Single-Use Plastics in National Parks… 10 Years From Now
Hundreds of millions of people visit U.S. national parks every single year. They take photos, they hike, they soak in the sights… and they leave behind single-use plastic items.