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 | 8/5/2016 - A dispute over who should be paid to pick up the trash has left residents of Flint, Michigan, which made national headlines this last spring over its ongoing water crisis, with nowhere to put their garbage but piled up inside their homes.
The office of the city's mayor, Karen Weaver, issued a notice...
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 | 6/15/2016 - A video of a Boro Park resident raging at New York sanitation officers digging through resident's trash was posted on the Yeshiva World News Facebook page May 31.
The video has caused a lot of commotion and raises questions about whether opening up trash bags to cite people for not recycling properly...
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 | 11/2/2015 - Federal, state and local governments have a plethora of technology they use to "monitor" We the People, but few of us ever really considered the local garbage collector as part of this web of surveillance.
This network of pseudo-spies is vast, numbering in the hundreds of thousands and keeping watch...
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 | 8/7/2015 - Throughout human history, the natural tendency of leaders has been to exert as much influence and control over the masses as possible. Our founding fathers knew and understood this, which is why they created a government featuring three separate branches of government that served as a check and balance...
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 | 10/3/2014 - Researchers on an expedition to assess the state of plastic pollution in the North Pacific Ocean discovered two disturbing things: an island completely made of trash, large and sturdy enough to walk on; and a piece of radioactive rope floating in the midst of the ocean.
The "garbage island" was discovered...
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 | 9/6/2012 - If you've ever been to the beach and have broken out your cooler and picnic basket, chances are good that in doing so, you and your family attracted the attention - and short-term affection - of a small flock of seagulls.
Now, while seagulls can get to be pesky, especially if you start feeding them,...
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 | 5/15/2012 - The world's oceans are increasingly becoming dumping grounds for mankind's waste, and nowhere is that more apparent than in the Pacific, where amounts of floating plastic garbage have increased 100-fold.
The ocean where so many epic, nation-saving World War II battles were won is now home to increasing...
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 | 3/25/2008 - A swirling, floating garbage dump in the North Pacific Ocean twice the size of the United States has been noticed in recent years and is growing at a swift pace. It is called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The number of plastic pieces in the Pacific Ocean has tripled in the last ten years and the...
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