Some of you may remember that a month ago I canceled trash pickup at my house. This was for several reasons, two of which are the price of pickup and the lack of maintenance/pollution from the Waste Management trucks. When we did have trash pickup, we were disposing of between 2-3 bags of trash [...]
As of this morning, we are no longer having our trash picked up at our home. For those of you who have never had trash pickup at their house, this is no big deal; you have been dragging your own trash to the landfill for years. For those of us who have had [...]
Dear EarthTalk: I came home today to yet another set of phonebooks at my front door. I feel they are a great waste of paper, especially in this electronic age. How can I stop getting these books? Better yet: How can we get the phone companies to stop making them?
Many of us have little [...]
By now you have likely heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a tragic byproduct of the plastics industry and consumerism that is an island of garbage floating in the northern Pacific Ocean. Originally the size of Texas and approaching the size of the Sun, this gargantuan pile of plastic is collected by currents that [...]
