Environment + Energy Leader
MARCH 31, 2023
In 2022, Feeding America salvaged 3.6 The post Wasted Food: Rethinking Our Perceptions and Practices appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. billion pounds of groceries to provide sustenance to families experiencing food insecurity.
Environmental News Bits
JUNE 20, 2023
Food waste is a global problem that happens at every point in the food supply chain. Although the retail sector contributes a small percentage of overall food waste, the absolute amount of waste is still very significant because retailers handle enormous volumes of food. Download the report.
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Circle of Blue
DECEMBER 13, 2022
The Year in Water, 2022. Sharpening the Shark’s Teeth By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – December 13, 2022. The strength of the shark’s teeth and the breadth of the bite were on full display in 2022. Though vivid, the shark metaphor is an inadequate frame for some of 2022’s defining water stories. Brett Walton.
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 9, 2023
On September 29, DEP told the Low-Level Waste Advisory Committee shale gas operations in Pennsylvania sent 138,336 cubic feet of radioactive TENORM waste to the Waste Control Specialists low-level radioactive waste facility in Texas for disposal. Click Here for DEP table on TENORM waste. Read more here.
Circle of Blue
DECEMBER 20, 2022
It’s the state’s second largest port and it had been dumping nitrogen-saturated waste on farmland in eastern Oregon. The waste contaminated the groundwater with high levels of nutrients, in an arid location where residents rely on groundwater for their drinking water. The project is expected to be completed by 2026.
PA Environment Daily
AUGUST 30, 2023
Since Pennsylvania Resources Council launched a partnership with the City of Pittsburgh in May 2022, more than 2,800 city residents have dropped off materials through the City’s hard-to-recycle program. Appropriate recycling of these items provides many benefits. Advance registration is required for all collection events.
Circle of Blue
AUGUST 9, 2022
August 9, 2022. Some of the earliest memories I have are of protestors standing in the road, blocking semi-trucks hauling nuclear waste.”. — Mikhail Childs, Prairie Island Indian C ommunity member. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has declared the plant to be safe, tribe members remain worried about their proximity to nuclear waste.
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