Good News Notes: “It hasn’t been entirely smooth sailing, but The Ocean Cleanup is now calling an end to a first successful mission to collect plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, today showing off the pile of trash on the shores of Vancouver. The organization now plans to repurpose the recovered rubbish as plastic…
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Tech Company Free Meals Beget a Lot of Leftovers. Meet the Man on a Mission to Rescue Them.
Good News Notes: “I meet Les Tso on a corner in San Francisco’s SoMa district on a wet Thursday afternoon. He pulls his silver Isuzu SUV into an alley.” “Tso works as a driver for Food Runners, a nonprofit that picks up leftover food from grocery stores, companies, events, and restaurants and brings it to…
Almost 8,000 pounds of trash fished from Haywood waterways in 2019
Good News Notes: “Litter cleanups organized by Haywood Waterways Association removed 7,885 pounds of trash from the county’s creeks and streams in 2019, said HWA Project Assistant Christine O’Brien.” “Contributing to the garbage collection were 268 volunteers, who participated in 26 cleanups between January and November, pulling 40 tires out of Haywood’s water as part…
Xcel Energy French Island plant taking more garbage to convert to power
Good News Notes: “Every time someone turns on a light, the power may be coming from the garbage they throw out. Xcel Energy and La Crosse County officials have been working together for decades using garbage to make electricity. “ “Officials say they are getting calls from other communities trying to find a better way…
This Kitchen Gadget Turns Waste Into Energy
Good News Notes: “A gadget that’s the size of a trash and can heat your home, with everything from dirty diapers to empty chip packets, is currently being trialled in the UK.” “Spencer was frustrated with a system that essentially saw ‘a refuse vehicle doing 6 miles to the gallon running on fossil fuel, to…
Volunteers Clean Up Boulder Creek
Good News Notes: “More than one hundred people were on hand to help clean up Boulder Creek on Sunday.” “With the help of the Can’d Aid Foundation in more than one hundred volunteers were out scouring for trash.” “At the end of the day, and covering more than two-and-a-half miles, volunteers pulled just about everything…
NY's Earth Day 'trash blitz' hauled in 8,600 bags of garbage
https://nypost.com/2019/05/10/nys-earth-day-trash-blitz-hauled-in-8600-bags-of-garbage/
Mack Trucks shows off the LR BEV, its first battery-electric garbage truck – Roadshow
https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/mack-trucks-battery-electric-garbage-truck/