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Amazon Finally Ditches Plastic Air Pillows, but Environmentalists Say It’s Not Enough

Mon, 10/21/2024 - 09:45

Gizmodo

garbage, Amazon Prime, plastic air pillows, Plastic pollution, plastics

Stop Putting Forks in Your Compost

Thu, 08/22/2024 - 13:51

Gizmodo

Plastic Fork In Compost

garbage, bioplastics, composting

'Heavy lifter' drones could soon solve Mount Everest's trash problem

Sun, 08/11/2024 - 16:14

Tech Insider

An Everest camp littered with trash — Nepal plans to use unmanned drones to move trash from the top of Mount Everest.
DOMA SHERPA/Getty Images

Tech, Sustainability, mount-everest, Tech, trash, garbage, Sustainability

How Disney's magical trash tubes ended up in New York City

Thu, 07/27/2023 - 16:30

Tech Insider

At Disney World, the Magic Kingdom uses a system of pneumatic tubes to keep trash out of sight for park visitors. While this was supposed to be the future of waste disposal, only one other place in the US uses something like it on a similar scale: Roosevelt Island in New York City.

Video, Transportation, video format world wide waste, disney, trash, Roosevelt Island, New York

Huge Trash Buildup Totally Covers Section of Balkan River

Tue, 01/24/2023 - 16:10

Gizmodo : Environment

Some unsettling imagery out of Europe last week: The Drina river, a 215-mile waterway that constitutes much of the border of Bosnia & Herzegovina and Serbia, has been covered in trash.

trash, garbage, Europe, drina, naturalenvironment, wastecontainer, dejanfurtula

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