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Topic: landfills

Person Throwing Pizza In Garbage (Getty Images/Andrey Popov)

Officials call on EPA to cut food waste

Joy Saha
Top view of a paper bag full of canned food, fruits, vegetables, eggs, a milk bottle, berries, mushrooms, nuts, pasta, a chocolate bar and bread. (Getty Images)

One-third of the food we buy is wasted

Brian E. Roe - The Conversation
Young adult man wearing a pollution mask to protect himself from viruses. His friends are in the background. They all are wearing masks. (Getty Images)

Should we turn face masks into fuel?

Joseph Winters - Grist
Little Free Library – Take One – Leave One. (Independent Picture Service/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

How to recycle unwanted books

Ashlie D. Stevens, Shane Tan
CHICAGO, IL - JANUARY 11: A shopping cart sits outside of a Walmart store on January 11, 2018 in Chicago, Illinois. Walmart announced today it would use savings from the recently revised tax law to increase their starting wage to $11-per-hour, offer some hourly employees a one-time bonus up to $1000, expand maternity and parental leave benefits and will begin to offer adoption assistance. The company also disclosed today that it would be closing 63 of its Sam's Club stores across the US, costing thousands of workers their jobs. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Our addiction to stuff

Tima Bansal, Jury Gualandris - The Conversation
Daniela Uribe with a mountain of cascara. (Photo courtesy of Lazy Bear Tea/Civil Eats)

Don’t call it food waste

Danielle Beurteaux - Civil Eats
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Would you go strawless?

Nicole Karlis
A woman sits in front of a pile of discarded carnival costumes after carnival celebrations at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, March 4, 2014. The costumes on display at the all-night parade that ended early Tuesday have made Rioís Carnival celebration the most famous in the world. But the handmade confections often have a short shelf life. As the tens of thousands of revelers stream out of the Sambadrome, a surprising number of them immediately abandon their costumes. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

america is a wasteland

Reynard Loki - Alternet
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Naveena Sadasivam - ProPublica
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Lindsay Abrams
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Lindsay Abrams

Elizabeth Rotye
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Lindsay Abrams
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Lindsay Abrams
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Lindsay Abrams
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