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Recycling plastic is not as green as you think

FOR many, plastic is one of humanity’s greatest sins against the environment, a wrong for which only recycling can atone. In the past five years, recycling rates have soared as greater awareness of the harm plastic causes has spread

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Pañales desechables causan dilema

París. El cuidado de los bebés vuelve a ser objeto de un interrogante en las sociedades de consumo: ¿pañales desechables o pañales lavables? Tal es la cuestión, señala AFP

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ENTIERROS VERDES

La verdad es que de pronto en medio del concierto de luz y de colores del verano ha llegado a los medios de comunicación el titular de que el Gobierno chino ha decidido prohibir los espectáculos de striptease en los funerales

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FuelCell Energy Power Plant Running on Waste Byproduct to Generate Stable Electricity Source for Showcase Eco-Community in Japan

FuelCell Energy Power Plant Running on Waste Byproduct to Generate Stable Electricity Source for Showcase Eco-Community in Japan

FuelCell Energy today announced that one of its 250-kilowatt Direct FuelCell (DFC) power plants, sold by its Asian distributor Marubeni Corporation, will supply power as part of the electric grid servicing a school, a hospital, apartment buildings and city hall in a planned, renewable energy community on the western coast of Japan.

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City Trash Plan Forgoes Trucks, Favoring Barges

Three years after the closing of the mammoth Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island, the Bloomberg administration has drawn up a 20-year plan to deal with the city’s residential waste by shipping the bulk of it elsewhere by barge, officials who have been briefed on the plan said yesterday.

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