Waste

These ridiculous COVID spending examples should be a basic reminder for lawmakers: respect America's taxpayers and apply some critical thinking to your spending choices.

Shocking footage from company shows a Guatemalan beach completely engulfed in plastic waste.

"When Target can't be bothered to donate," said the viral video's caption. Comments blasted the company for "maddening," "shameful" and "disgusting" waste.

Starbucks announced its plan to reduce disposable cups in its stores by 2025 in a release on the company's website on Tuesday.

Animal welfare groups and professionals have been trying to free the crocodile for years, but in the end, it was a local resident that succeeded.

Several cities have reported anywhere from 20 to 35 percent of their sanitation workers missing work because of COVID in recent weeks as Omicron has spiked.

"We can't afford to live like we used to live, so we have to make a movement about not throwing things out when they're still working," one activist said.

Dan Schoewe, the operations manager at the Republic Services recycling center, said the money was the "biggest" find he had seen "in 30 years."

"The results from our research have major implications for the field of plastic sustainability and demonstrate the power of synthetic biology to address real-world challenges," said the study's first author Joanna Sadler.

Experts warn that the situation will also continue to get worse as a result of climate change.

Discarded face masks are frequently being found lying on beaches in Brazil, local marine conservationists have said.

An investigation by The Los Angeles Times and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism found the dome is barely holding it together as it is. Rising sea levels could tip it over the edge.

Up to 40 percent of edible food in America currently goes into the trash, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council, often because consumers store food incorrectly or misunderstand what the "best before" dates on food labels really mean.

A trapped dead body clogged up pumps in the Tijuana River and caused nearly 14.5 million gallons of wastewater to flow into the United States from Mexico over the weekend.

The study, published in JAMA, is based on government reports, articles and peer-reviewed publications related to costs and savings estimates in six categories of waste, released between 2012 and 2019.

The National Border Patrol Council has been an ardent supporter of President Donald Trump's proposal to build a wall along the southwest border, going so far as to back a government shutdown in a play to get lawmakers to fund the project.

The Demorcats will make life harder for Trump, but they will do little to change the imbalance of wealth and power in this country—unless they are pushed to do so.

"For the wall's $5.7 billion, every child in America could have access to Universal Pre-K," Ocasio-Cortez tweeted.

If someone could collect and recycle all the unrecycled plastic on earth, they would be the richest person on the planet.

The Department of Energy plans to relabel radioactive waste to the level of shared by contaminated protective clothing, rags and medical equipment.

"It undoes all our hard work and proves once again that we are using plastic with our eyes closed," author Martin Dorey said.

The altered waste guidelines are part of Austin's plan to reduce the amount of trash sent to landfills 90 percent by 2040.

Rather than wasting plastics, cold plasma pyrolysis can be used to recover valuable materials, which can be sent directly back into industry.

Over a five-year period, Whole Foods and two other companies allegedly mishandled hazardous waste.

It's not uncommon to find stranded dead turtles with guts full of plastic.

A researcher said he found 20,100 becquerels of cesium per square meter in the mud at Kyu-Edogawa river.

Marine plastic debris is estimated to reach 250 million tons by 2025.

Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a $32 million plan to reduce the city's rat population.

A tunnel has collapsed at Hanford, Washington, where the Nagasaki bomb was built during World War II.

The smell effectively fools the birds into thinking the plastic is a nutritious food source.