landfills

Boxed water replaces plastic at Princeton

Environmentally friendlier packaging is a transitional step as the school looks for a more permanent alternative to landfill-clogging traditional plastic…

6 years ago

There’s plastic in your tap water, beer, and table salt

Photo: An albatross that has succumbed to starvation due to overconsumption of plastic particles. Chris Jordan via Ars Electronica on…

6 years ago

Hurricane Florence breaches manure lagoon, coal ash pit in North Carolina

RALEIGH, N.C. — Flooded rivers from Florence’s drenching rains have swamped coal ash dumps and low-lying hog farms, raising pollution…

6 years ago

A landfill in Vermont, a lake in Quebec and a question: How’s the water?

Photo: Residents and officials on both sides of the border have expressed concerns about how the leachate percolating from the…

6 years ago

Plastic Toxins World Epidemic — Plastic Pollution

Plastic is everywhere, including in the sea and its fish, in the soil and its plants, in our food and…

6 years ago