The Southeast Asian country Malaysia has sent 150 shipping containers packed with plastic waste back to 13 wealthy countries, putting the world on notice that it will not be the world’s garbage dump, as CNN reported. The countries receiving their trash back include the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Canada. The government will […]
By Basten Gokkon The world lost nearly 150,000 orangutans from the island of Borneo in the past 16 years due to habitat loss and killing, and is on track to lose another 45,000 by 2050, according to a new paper in the journal Current Biology. The study, published Feb. 15, observed 36,555 orangutan nests across […]
International Campaign for Responsible Technology [Editor’s note: While working on this post I kept thinking of the Annie Leonard’s The Story of Electronics. Watch her movie below and then read about the organizations that are trying to clean up this toxic industry.] The American Public Health Association (APHA) yesterday called on the global electronics’ industry, […]
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