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Plastic, Man		07 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Plastic, Man In an effort to reduce its plastic waste by 30 percent, Taiwan has passed a law banning the free distribution of plastic bags and disposable tableware in some 75,000 establishments, including restaurants, department stores, supermarkets, convenience stores, and fast-food franchises. Taiwan currently uses 20 billion plastic bags per year (or 2.5 bags per person per day), and more than 16 million people i ...
Topics: Asia, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

Dump Yuck		06 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Dump Yuck Twenty-two of 50 landfills tested in California have been found to contain unusually high levels of radiation, and radioactive waste from seven of those dumps has contaminated nearby groundwater, state environmental officials announced yesterday. The findings raise new questions about the ongoing impact of a now-defunct California policy that allowed mildly radioactive waste in ...
Topics: California, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

End-of-Life Plans for Cell Phones	Suzy Becker	24 Feb 2003	Ha.

Topics: green living, recycling, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

Oinks Per Gallon		24 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Oinks Per Gallon The waste from hundreds of thousands of hogs will soon be powering vehicle diesel engines if Smithfield Farms follows through on a plan announced Friday. Smithfield, the world's largest hog producer, intends to build a $20 million waste-to-energy facility in southwestern Utah that will convert swine manure into biodiesel fuel, which burns more cleanly tha ...
Topics: placemaking, renewable energy, solid waste treatment and disposal, Southwest, Utah (all these topics)

One Mississippi, Two Mississippi, Dead Mississippi		12 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
One Mississippi, Two Mississippi, Dead Mississippi Six states whose waters feed the lower Mississippi River agreed this week to work together to reduce the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico. Fertilizers, sewage, and other nutrient-rich pollutio ...
Topics: Arkansas, food and agriculture, Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, marine life, Mississippi, Mississippi River, Missouri, oceans, rivers and watersheds, solid waste treatment and disposal, Tennessee, Texas, toxics (all these topics)

Bottlestar Galactica		27 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Bottlestar Galactica If Michigan environmentalists get their way, the state will dramatically expand its bottle law to cover 750 million additional beverage containers per year, including juice, water, and tea bottles that currently wind up as litter or in landfills. The state's 1976 bottle law, which quickly cleaned up roadside litter, is both popular and successful. Every ...
Topics: business, green living, Michigan, recycling, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

Filling Up Wide Open Spaces		10 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Filling Up Wide Open Spaces Forget about urban sprawl; the new menace facing the U.S. landscape is rural sprawl, according to some experts. In seeking refuge from city life, Americans started by moving to the suburbs; then they started building beyond the suburbs, creating "exurbs"; now, they're gradually expanding into some of the country's most remote a ...
Topics: food and agriculture, placemaking, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

Time for a Change		12 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Time for a Change No need to throw the dirty diapers out with the bathwater! Santa Clarita, Calif., a suburb of Los Angeles, is the first municipality in the United States to institute a diaper-recycling program, which will transform the soiled, disposable sacks of goodies into oil filters, roof shingles, and vinyl siding. Some 20 billion diapers are buried in U.S. landfills per year ...
Topics: California, green living, recycling, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

Trick or Treaty		29 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Trick or Treaty Ten years after the North American Free Trade Agreement was enacted, controversy continues over the environmental consequences of increased trade between the U.S. and Mexico. Some experts who bitterly opposed NAFTA at the start now feel that the treaty has led to some improvements in quality of life in U.S. border areas -- but they sa ...
Topics: business, globalization, Mexico, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, United States (all these topics)

Gutter Politics		28 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Gutter Politics At the same time that is it seeking to rollback the Clean Water Act and other historic environmental legislation, the Bush administration is cracking down on sewage spills in Portland, Ore., and other major cities. Municipal leaders in Portland accuse the administration of selectively punishing areas that are traditional Democratic strongholds, but the U.S. EPA says it's just ...
Topics: Oregon, politics, Portland, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

Give a Hoot		18 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Give a Hoot Today is the 30th anniversary of the Clean Water Act -- and although the United States has made some strides in improving water quality, it has still got a long way to go. A whopping 81 percent of major wastewater treatment plants and chemical and industrial facilities in the U.S. contaminated waterways beyond what their permits allowed between 1999 a ...
Topics: energy, health, solid waste treatment and disposal, toxics, United States, water pollution (all these topics)

The Dead Phone		08 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
The Dead Phone If you're thinking about chucking your cell phone, think twice: Most of the 128 million mobile phones currently in use in the U.S. will end up incinerated or at the bottom of a landfill, according to a report released by the environmental organization Inform and partly funded by the U.S. EPA. By 2005, 130 million cell phones will be discarded each ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

Sh*tting By the Dock of the Bay		19 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Shtting By the Dock of the Bay Ten years ago, delegates attending the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro wrinkled their noses upon encountering the putrid smells emanating from the heavily polluted Guanabara Bay. The summit cast a spotlight on the plight of Rio's bay and led to the creation of an internationally funded cleanup project. Now, with the follow-up Earth Summit ...*
Topics: Brazil, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, water pollution (all these topics)

Rubber the Right Way		07 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Rubber the Right Way In other news from the halls of justice, a different federal appeals court ruled yesterday that the U.S. government must foot the bill for cleaning up hazardous waste stemming from a World War II effort to produce synthetic rubber. During the war, most of the natural-rubber exporters were under Japanese control, so demand was high for synthetics to manufacture tires, life rafts, gas masks, ...
Topics: California, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

Grim Jim		07 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Grim Jim Six tons of weapons-grade plutonium can continue on its way to South Carolina, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday. The decision, which upheld a lower court ruling, was a blow to Gov. Jim Hodges (D), who has vociferously protested storing the waste in his state. Hodges argued that the Department of Energy needed to conduct more thorough environmental stud ...
Topics: Department of Energy, nuclear power, solid waste treatment and disposal, South Carolina (all these topics)

Cruise Control		01 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Cruise Control Norwegian Cruise Line, the fourth-largest cruise company in the world, will pay a $1.5 million fine for illegally dumping oil and untreated wastewater into the ocean, and subsequently lying about its actions. The company kept a false logbook and for three years lied to the Coast Guard about unlawful discharges off the coast ...
Topics: Alaska, business, Florida, oceans, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Totally Trashed		01 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Totally Trashed Every day, New Yorkers generate about 11,000 tons of residential trash. Ever since former Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) shut down the city's only operating landfill, Fresh Kills, the city has been plagued by the question of what to do with its garbage. For the last year, trash has been hauled on trucks to incinerators and out-of-state landfills. Now Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) has a new plan: to adapt ...
Topics: New York, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

Beached Wails		25 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Beached Wails You might want to think twice before you head out with your sunscreen and towel this weekend. The number of sewage-tainted beaches is on the rise, jumping 19 percent between 2000 to 2001, according to a report released yesterday by the Natural Resources Defense Council. The group said that 13,410 beach closings and water advisories were issued by government agencies in 2001, ...
Topics: NRDC, oceans, solid waste treatment and disposal, water pollution (all these topics)

Around the Underworld in ...		17 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Around the Underworld in ... If Don Delillo and Jules Verne had ever collaborated on a novel, they might have written the story that's currently reaching its denouement in Pennsylvania: "Around the World with 14,855 Tons of Trash." That's how much garbage left Pennsylvania 16 years ago, destined to earn a reputation as the best-traveled and least-wan ...
Topics: Bahamas, Haiti, oceans, Pennsylvania, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

What About Tupperware?		16 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
What About Tupperware? Now that the U.S. Senate has given the go-ahead to store the nation's most highly radioactive nuclear waste at Nevada's Yucca Mountain, new questions loom: What kind of containers can protect the waste for 10,000 years, and who will provide them? Those are high-stakes issues, given that the Department of Energy plans to buy about 1 ...
Topics: Department of Energy, Nevada, nuclear power, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

Yuck.		10 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Yuck. The U.S. Senate voted yesterday to approve storage of nuclear waste from around the nation at Nevada's Yucca Mountain, ending, for the moment, one of the most contentious environmental battles of recent decades. The 60-to-39 vote was a blow for environmentalists and Nevadans, who dubbed the plan the "Screw Nevada Bill" when it was preliminarily approved by Congress 15 years ag ...
Topics: Nevada, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

Down the Hatch		09 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Down the Hatch With the Senate poised to vote as early as today on a proposed nuclear waste disposal site at Nevada's Yucca Mountain, two wavering lawmakers have agreed to support the site in exchange for a favor in their own state. Republican Sens. Robert Bennett and Orrin Hatch, both of Utah, met yesterday with Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham, who promised to oppose a private nuclear dump ...
Topics: Nevada, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

Unbridled LUST		08 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Unbridled LUST Leaking underground storage tanks (LUST) of gasoline have contaminated at least 25,000 sites around Florida, giving rise to concerns that the state's drinking water supplies could be tainted, according to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. Scientists say the contamination is a result of Florida's love affair with gas; the state ranks ...
Topics: energy, Florida, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, water pollution (all these topics)

Bad Medicine On flushing medications	Umbra Fisk	21 Jun 2002	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I work with a number of older women who try to be environmentally conscientious. When it comes to discarding outdated medications though, there seems to be conflicting advice. Medical doctors tell me that all such medicines should be flushed down the toilet. Water resource people say, don't flush, because all those discarded medicines are seeping into groundwater. Sigh. What are we to do? Jonell Cadman Dearest Jonell, The ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, health, solid waste treatment and disposal, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

The Sludge Report		21 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
The Sludge Report From the department of You've Got To Be Kidding: An internal U.S. EPA document alleges that the 200,000 tons of toxic sludge dumped by the Army Corps of Engineers into the Potomac River every year is actually good for fish, because it forces them to fl ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, pollution and waste, Potomac River, solid waste treatment and disposal, toxics, United States, US EPA, Washington DC, water bodies and marine life, wildlife (all these topics)

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