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1. Garbage Disposal (Annenberg-CPB - Learner.org)
   Provides facts about the problems in various areas of disposal and recycling, including disposal of hazardous waste and alternative treatment of sewage. Discusses alternative solutions for each set of problems. 12-01

2. Freegans Eat Garbage (Fox News)
   "One person's trash is literally another person's treasure, if that person happens to be a freegan (search). They’re not vegans who refuse to eat meat or animal products, these people eat out of the garbage." 10-04

3. Recycling - Explanation for Kids (Environmental Protection Agency)
   Provides information on recycling of trash, garbage, and other solid waste. 12-00

4. Waste - Zero Waste Philosophy and Cost Savings (Environmental News Network - Elston)
   "Proponents of Zero Waste maintain that garbage isn't a disposal problem; it's an engineering one. They believe that garbage is designed into our production cycle. To remedy the current garbage crisis, they say, we need a new design principle — a system geared toward eliminating waste rather than one that manages it once it's been created." "The key to the Zero Waste system is to see garbage as a valuable resource and not as waste." "Companies that have adopted the Zero Waste philosophy are finding that it not only cuts garbage production and disposal costs but also reduces manufacturing costs." 1-02

5. -04-10-05 Homeland Security Fund Abused (CBS News)
   "Cox says the bulk of the anti-terrorism money should have gone to protecting high risk targets, instead of being doled out to every local community in the country, whether they need it or not. 'In some cases, the money just arrives," he says. "It's as if you've won the Publisher's Clearing House sweepstakes.' "
   
   "Converse, Texas, first used its new homeland security trailer to transport riding lawn mowers to the annual lawnmower races."
   
   "Newark, N.J., spent a quarter of a million dollars on air-conditioned garbage trucks. In Columbus, Ohio, the fire department is buying bulletproof dog vests for its canine corps. And Mason County, Wash., famous mostly for its Christmas trees, spent $63,000 for a decontamination unit that no one’s been trained to use. It’s been sitting in boxes in a warehouse for a year." 4-05

6. Cities Face Economic Peril (New York Times)
   "Without money, governments cannot run buses so that residents without cars can search for jobs and go to work. They cannot educate the children of families that might try to return. They cannot provide health care, pick up garbage or begin the detailed planning and engineering necessary to bring a city back to life."
   
   "They are locked in a painful loop, unable to lure back exiled residents without services, but unable to provide the services without tax bases." 10-05

7. Precycling (EnvironmentalDefense.org)
   "To PRECYCLE is to make buying choices that support responsible products and packaging, make recycling easier and reduce the amount of garbage you throw away. Precycling is a good way to start squaring your personal behavior with your principles." 03-06

8. Sewage and Wastes Contaminating Water Supplies (FoodandWaterWatch.com)
   "During moderate to heavy rainfalls, the volume of sewage and storm water can exceed the capacity of the sewer system, which discharges the excess untreated sewage – including garbage, syringes, tampon applicators, and toxic industrial waste – into the nearest body of water. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1.28 trillion gallons of raw sewage are discharged by overflows from these sewer systems each year3, requiring $50.6 billion to clean up.4"
   
   "Even the newer sewer systems, which do not collect storm water, do sometimes overflow because of broken pipes or mechanical problems caused by the general wear and tear on system pumps, valves, and lifts. EPA estimates that such failures in the systems discharge between three and 10 billion gallons of raw sewage each year.5"
   
   "Municipalities already invest $63 billion a year for clean water, second only to their spending on education. Meanwhile, the federal share of funding for water and sewer systems declined from 78 percent in 1973 to 3 percent today.25 Therefore, each year we fall more than $20 billion short of what is needed to maintain our public water and sewer systems."
   
   "This is why Congress should establish a clean water trust fund that would give communities the financial help they need to invest in healthy and safe drinking water for every American and for future generations. Such a fund also would protect wildlife and maintain healthy ecosystems." 10-07

9. -Plastics Are Entering the Food Chain (TheGlobeandMail)
   "This plastic soup, with billions of tiny shards of the synthetic material floating just below the surface of the water, is estimated to span an area 11/2 times the size of the continental United States."
   
   "Alarming new data collected during Capt. Moore's most recent voyage to the gyre's centre in February shows the girth of the so-called Eastern Garbage Patch 'dramatically increasing.' "
   
   "Hundreds of myctophids, or lantern fish, were collected during the excursion. All of them had dozens of bits of broken plastic in their stomachs. Some pieces were five millimetres in diameter, much too large to pass through the systems of the tiny creatures."
   
   "They are the most plentiful fish in the ocean, making up about 90 per cent of all deep-sea fish, he said. They are a major source of food for larger fish, such as tuna, and other marine creatures, including dolphins, whales and sharks.05-08

10. E-Waste (Time.com)
    "Phones and computers contain dangerous metals like lead, cadmium and mercury, which can contaminate the air and water when those products are dumped. It's called electronic waste, or e-waste, and the world produces a lot of it: 20 to 50 million tons a year, according to the UN — enough to load a train that would stretch around the world. The U.S. is by far the world's top producer of e-waste, but much of it ends up elsewhere — specifically, in developing nations like China, India and Nigeria, to which rich countries have been shipping garbage for years." 07-08

11. -01-30-09 Editorial: Is a 'Bad Bank' the Answer? (Christian Science Monitor)
    "With the financial crisis now midway through its second year, a central problem for the US economy remains: how to convincingly clear away a garbage-pile of bad debts at banks and move forward with a solvent industry."
    
    "A leading idea under review by the Obama administration is to set up a so-called "bad bank" as a holding pen for the risky assets that spawned the crisis. Administration officials have talked about this concept, and have said they want to avoid temporarily nationalizing some very large banks." 01-09

12. How Much Thermal Energy Does the Syngas Produce? (TechnologyReview.com)
    "This week, city counselors in Ottawa, Ontario, unanimously approved a new waste-to-energy facility that will turn 400 metric tons of garbage per day into 21 megawatts of net electricity--enough to power about 19,000 homes." In this scenario, it takes 19 metric tons of biomass to generate a megawatt of electricity. 06-09