Revolution Recovery’s mission is to keep building materials out of landfills. They run a recycling facility that competes with traditional trash transfer stations, but rather than filling our earth up with these materials, they engage in the toil of sorting and reselling, and in the process create jobs and push for a more sustainable planet.
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Each Year, 75,000 Homes Waste as Much Energy as Contained in Entire BP Gulf Spill
Case in point: this graphic, which points out that the energy wasted by 75,000 homes a year equals the energy contained in the biggest oil spill in US history.The point seems to be that this spill, which occurred because our demand for energy has grown so high that we’ve resorted to risky procedures to meet it, is but a drop in the bucket amongst all the energy we waste on a routine basis.
Visualizing a smarter city | A Smarter Planet Blog
Cities generate the vast bulk of the world’s CO2 emissions, and they account for 60 percent of all water allocated for domestic human use. As urbanization levels increase, how do city leaders ensure continuing water and energy supplies – while also promoting environmental sustainability? If you ask me, a good place to start is by making sure local utilities, government agencies, businesses and citizens alike are looking at the same information when making decisions about collective and individual energy use.
Researchers glued electronic tags to the trash items they had sorted through and selected to track. The items will be followed through the waste disposal system.
Following Trash on Its Journey Through the Waste Disposal System - NYTimes.com
