Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Mercury is an essential element in millions of fluorescent lamps throughout the world, and as those lamps are thrown into landfill, the mercury can escape and contribute to air and water pollution. (It can easily leach into groundwater supplies.)
According to www.lightbulbrecycling.com, each year an estimated 600 million fluorescent lamps are disposed of in U.S. landfills, amounting to 30,000 pounds of mercury waste. Astonishingly, that's almost half the amount of mercury emitted into the atmosphere by coal-fired power plants each year. |
Ann N. Martin
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 The other alternative was to dump the bodies at the county landfill. This alternative would mean additional costs, including a truck and driver to transport the pet carcasses. As of May 2002, the dead animals were being taken to landfill sites, but discussions to build an incinerator were in the works.
In June 2001 another rendering plant, which had rendered pets for a number of years, refused to accept euthanized pets any longer. |
David Steinman
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 In this case, the Austin Energy GreenChoice program, with which AMD is working, utilizes local wind power and landfill methane gas to provide carbon-neutral energy, improving air quality by lowering power plant emissions and reducing reliance on nonreplaceable fossil fuels. Turbines at three West Texas wind farms harness the wind to supply pollution-free energy. Two landfills, one located just outside Austin and the other located near San Antonio, collect methane produced by decay to generate electricity. It fulfills every idea of what it is to stop being toxic. www.amd. |
Ann N. Martin
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| The birds can also be poisoned when shelters dump euthanized dogs and cats in landfill sites and the birds feed on these carcasses. Sodium pentobarbital remains potent in a carcass long after the animal dies.
A January 2002 publication by the American Veterinary Medical Association describes some of the deaths of wildlife related to sodium pentobarbital. "In British Columbia, 26 bald eagles became ill, five fatally, after eating one euthanized cow. |
Bill Sardi
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 A recent international summit on breast cancer and the environment outlined the need for more research to be conducted into the effects of exposure in the vicinity of nuclear power plants or chemical landfill sites and, more generally, into contaminants in food, air, water and soil." [Hormone Research 60 Suppl 3:50, 2003] But none of this makes any sense. As explained earlier in this chapter, the predominant factor in breast cancer is age, not exposure to carcinogens. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 Residents and environmental scientists from the University at Buffalo believe that several chemical-laden landfill dumps and the Buffalo Crushed Stone Quarry, which surround the neighborhood in what some refer to as a "toxic triangle," are predisposing Cheektowaga residents to autoimmune illnesses. Mine blasting at the quarry throws large amounts of crystalline silica, one of the most documented triggers of lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and scleroderma, into the atmosphere. Hydrogen sulfide, a toxic ingredient in mining wastewater, races through the area creeks. |
| In late 2006, remediation commenced, and contractors began to dig up the area and truck the contaminated soil to a landfill.
Not surprisingly, the DEC remains dubious that the toxic waste about to be remediated is linked to the plethora of illness in the area. "To this day we still cannot say that there is any connection between this site and the disease of autoimmunity in this area," says David Locey. "I think anyone working on this project has to admit that they can't know that with any certainty. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 When these bullets are fired, they emit lead particles that are then inhaled, absorbed into the skin or disposed of in community landfill facilities. Currently, very few cities are taking action to reduce the health threat and environmental burden of lead bullets.
Similar to mercury, lead is both a heavy metal and a potent neurotoxin that builds up over time in bones and soft tissue. Lead particles, dust and gases are especially present at shooting ranges because of the lead components contained in most bullets. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 NiMH batteries can be reused 1,000 times before being thrown away, greatly reducing landfill and the introduction of toxic metals into the environment. Energizer's intentional manufacture and marketing of a "crippled" D battery is hampering the ability of consumers to purchase reliable high-capacity rechargeable "D" batteries. By doing so, the Energizer company is, in my opinion, engaged in practices that are extremely unfriendly to both the environment and consumers. |
Ann N. Martin
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| Are they being cremated, buried at landfill sites, or are they sent to rendering plants? Often shelter employees are unsure of what is happening to the animals other then "a company picks them up." Find out the name of that company and contact its representatives. If the company refuses to divulge this information, contact the media, preferably an investigative reporter or team at newspapers, television stations, and radio. Express your concerns and suggest that this might be a viable story for them to cover. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Gee, that's a lot of plastic going to landfill, too...)
The bottles used to package bottled water are almost always made from plastics containing bisphenol-A (BPA), a carcinogenic chemical that often leaches into the water and gets swallowed by consumers. Click here to read our articles on BPA, a chemical widely believed to contribute to certain cancers. This contamination factor, however, is true for all products stored in plastic bottles, not merely water. Sports drinks, sodas, fruit drinks and even "healthy" smoothie drinks packaged in plastic all share a common risk of BPA contamination. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Building a quality LED light costs a lot more money than building a cheap light that you toss into landfill after a thousand hours of wasting electricity before burning out.
LED component prices are falling each year, however, and the future will no doubt bring more affordable LED lights to the marketplace. We anticipate that retail prices will fall 10 percent per year for quality LED lights, and we will of course work to bring down the prices of our own LED lights as quickly as we can. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Each bulb will be shown with its associated CO2 emissions and landfill statistics, as well as any possible harm to the environment caused by the use of hazardous substances. In all, you'll soon see the most exhaustive investigation ever conducted on consumer lighting technologies and their implications for the future of our planet.
All test results will be publicly published, and the testing equipment used will be clearly listed so that anyone in the world can duplicate our results if they wish to confirm our findings.
This will be an eye-opening report. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 So their packaging is made from recycled fibers, and it contains live seeds embedded in the box so you can actually plant the box instead of adding it to landfill. Even Ed Begley Jr. likes this company and sings its praises. (Watch this site for an interview with Ed Begley Jr. conducted at the Pangea Organics booth.)
If you're interested in supporting a company that really "gets" the big picture on personal care products, check out Pangea. Five stars. Available in salons and at the Pangea store: www.PangeaOrganics. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I'll hand it to the dentistry community on this one: they sure have come up with a creative way to get rid of toxic waste chemicals without using landfill -- just sell 'em to cities and call it a "public health policy!" Brilliant marketing. Seriously.
Think about it: now instead of dumping toxic waste products into landfills where the chemicals leach into the groundwater supplies and get consumed by people, these toxic chemicals get consumed by people first, then they get flushed into the rivers and streams. |
David R. Montgomery
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 One of the more interesting things I learned from my first job as a foundation inspector was that pteparing a building site means carting the topsoil off to a landfill. Sometimes the fine topsoil was sold as fill for use in other projects. Completely paved, Silicon Valley won't feed anyone again for the foreseeable future.
Enough American farms disappeared beneath concrete to cover Nebraska in the three decades from 1945 to 1975. Each year between 1967 and 1977, utbanization converted almost a million acres of U.S. farmland to nonagricultural uses. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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 Your fat? Yep, landfill.
You? Consider yourself the mayor, with the power to make all the decisions about what's best for your biological city.
Our ultimate goal isn't just to keep your biological city from naming tumble-weed as the town flower—in other words, to keep you from dying (though that sure is a biggie). Our goal is to put your body at the top of the "ten best cities to live in" list. It's to make it vibrant and hip, with lots of resources and good management of those resources. Perhaps most of all, it's to give it the ability to adjust rapidly to changing times—to reinvent itself. |
| Misplace things often (and not because your home has more junk than a city landfill)?
þ Neglect to bathe (and not as a sexual deterrent)?
þ Rely on someone else to make decisions you'd normally make yourself (not applicable to men married more than a decade)? itors, or SSRIs. Not surprisingly, you can decrease BDNF by eating high levels of saturated fats and refined sugars, as well as by not getting enough of the natural antidepressant tryptophan (sure, it's found in turkey, but there's twice as much in spinach) in your diet.
So what's the biological effect of all this? |
Devra Davis
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 The intake filters got clogged up with toxic materials from Clairton; they couldn't just be taken to a landfill. They needed to go into an official hazardous waste disposal site, with all sorts of added costs and protections. Instead of doing this, the water district sent the clogged filters back up to the plant, where they were burned up in the ovens at night."
Lucas and her family could smell when something strange went on. "We lived right next to the mills. At night, the odors would be the worst, because they would let things out then that they didn't want you to see. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If you love overpaying for stuff, and destroying the environment, and piling more garbage onto landfill, then keep buying incandescent light bulbs! They will raise your electricity bills, fill your trash with shards of glass, use up natural resources and accelerate global warming faster than any other light source on the planet today.
Are Compact Fluorescent Lights the answer?
But what about CFLs? Everybody's crazy about CFLs all of a sudden, it seems. People know that CFLs use only about 1/3rd the electricity of incandescent lights. |
Ann N. Martin
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| In addition, cremation is a lot more respectful to animal companions than dumping them in a landfill or a vat at a rendering plant.
In November 2001, Jamie Allman from KMOV-TV in St. Louis, Missouri began investigating rendering practices in St. Louis. His five-part series followed a city refuse truck, which had picked up the bodies of euthanized animals from animal shelters and delivered them to a rendering plant just across the stateline to Millstadt Rendering in Millstadt, Illinois. |
David Steinman
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| Instead of drifting into the atmosphere as a pure greenhouse emission, the methane gas from the company's Next Generation Sainte-Sophie landfill near Montreal is now powering the local Cascades paper mill and supplanting 75 percent of its use of natural gas.
Greening your patriotism—carbon-neutral business practices—or just a good environmental ethos—whatever you want to call this shift in consciousness—clearly, says Boston-based environmental and sustainability consultant Andrew Savitz, the tipping point has arrived. |
| Hermann Miller has designated the year 2020 as their deadline to achieve a range of sustainability targets, including zero landfill and zero hazardous waste generation. www.hermannmiller.com
Ikea
You'll be happy to know that you don't have to break the bank, or your commitment to shopping green, to furnish your home. Ikea, the Swedish-based affordable furnishings superstore, has established itself as a leader in the green movement. |
| Waste Management has been developing landfill gas-to-energy projects for more than fifteen years and that currently provide than 250 megawatts of energy, which is enough to power 225,000 homes and replace more than 2 million barrels of oil annually. This kind of innovation has definite synergistic ripples that everybody profits from, both financially and environmentally. |
Ann N. Martin
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| As of May 2002, the dead animals were being taken to landfill sites, but discussions to build an incinerator were in the works.
In June 2001 another rendering plant, which had rendered pets for a number of years, refused to accept euthanized pets any longer. According to The Times of Louisiana, "The rendering operation cited a need to use mostly hairless farm animals for processing, which culls animal extracts for dog food, make-up and other products."4 This rendering plant processed more than three hundred euthanized dogs and cats from the Caddo Animal Control every week. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It's as if humans were creating another land mass made out of landfill. Soon, somebody will probably build condos there are sell them online as "ocean front property!"
If there's any group of beings on this planet that should be warned about another group of beings, it's the ocean creatures who should be warned about humans. In fact, there should be a large red warning side slapped on the side of the planet, clearly visible to all creatures and interstellar visitors, that reads:
WARNING: Don't feed the humans.
(They haven't yet learned how to clean up after themselves. |
David Steinman
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| In July 2000, by reducing the generation of waste and promoting recycling, they achieved "zero landfill disposal" at all of their plants in Japan.
American Honda Motor Co., Inc. announced that the all-new Honda Civic earned Motor Trend magazine's prestigious 2006 Car of the Year award. The award extends to the entire Civic Sedan and Civic Coupe lineup, including the environmentally responsible Civic Hybrid and high-performance Civic Si models. www.honda.com
Toyota
What can you say about this company that hasn't already been said when it comes to revolutionizing the driving experience? |
Ann N. Martin
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| As a result, the Alachua County Animal Shelter tried to secure the use of several landfill sites in the area but their request was refused. They were moving forward with plans to purchase an incinerator to dispose of the animal remains.6
In January 2002 I again contacted the shelter and was advised by Randy Caligiuri, operarions manager, that "through a long and tedious process, we do have our own crematorium at our facility."7 I was very pleased to hear about this small victory. That means there are at least ten thousand less animals being rendered into pet food. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 On that day trucks were loaded at Sheriffs cold storage in Cleveland hauled to the Euclid landfill.
But guess who else was there taking pictures. It was Sue Morgan, FDA agent for Mr. Simmons. Mr. Simmons must have wanted pictures of the bread being destroyed for a trophy.
While our photographer was taking his pictures, the owner of the landfill came storming over and told the security guards to throw our photographer off the premises. He was ranting that we were taking these pictures to smear all over the front page of the Plain Dealer. |
| Simmons saw to it that the bread was destroyed and plowed under in a landfill in Euclid, Ohio. To make matters even worse, he had one of his agents go up to the Euclid landfill and take pictures of the bread being plowed under. The only reason we could see that Mr. Simmons would want such pictures would be so that he could gloat over such a matter, which certainly has to reflect a cruel and malicious nature.
We do not feel Mr. Simmons acted in the interest of the public or acted as a fit government administrator for the following reasons. |
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