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We all generate waste but what happens to its collection in times of conflict? Garbage can be as deadly as the fighting itself. Not all trash is created equal. There’s a growing market for recycled waste, everything from aluminum to glass, but not everyone has access to those markets. Still, for those that do, trash can mean big money. And while Americans produce more trash than any other country in the world, countries like Switzerland recycle up to 88 percent of all its aluminum and get by with just weekly garbage pick-ups.
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| Human Waste in the Developing World |
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| Rose George — Freelance writer and journalist; Author of The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters |
| Garbage in Film |
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| Milos Stehlik — Director of Facets Multimedia; Worldview Film Contributor |
| A Journey to the Plastic Island |
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Joel Paschal — Marine scientist; Explored the North Pacific Gyre aboard the Junk Raft, a vessel made out of plastic waste
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| Creative Waste Management in Haiti |
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Amelia Shaw—Producer for World Vision Report
Provided by the Public Radio Exchange |
| The Economics of Recycling |
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| Frank Ackerman — Senior Economist at the U.S. branch of the Stockholm Environment Institute; Environmental Institute at Tufts University in Massachusetts; Author of Why Do We Recycle? Markets, Values and Public Policy (Island Press, 1997) |
| Waste in Conflict Areas |
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Michael Cowing — Project Coordinator for the UN Environmental Program’s Post Conflict and Disaster Management Branch |
| Philippines: Toxic Waste Left in Former U.S. Military Bases |
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| Myrla Baldonado — Founder of Alliance for Bases Cleanup |
| Turning Waste into Profit |
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| Andy Mangan — Executive Director, US Council for Sustainable Business Development |
| Turning Waste into Profit: Medical Bags and Parking Lot Curbs |
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Jenni Cawein — Senior Manager of Environment Health and Safety for Baxter International, a member of the Chicago Waste to Profit Network
(For a look at Baxter's latest report on sustainability, click here.) |
| The Plastic Plague |
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| Stephanie Barger — Founder, Treasurer and Executive Director of the Earth Resource Foundation |
| Catastrophic Effect of Cluster Bombs Munitions |
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Raed Mokaled — Resident of southern Lebanon whose son, Ahmad, was killed by a cluster submunition on his fifth birthday
Lynn Bradach — Native of Portland, Oregon, whose son Travis, a U.S. Marine, was killed by a U.S. cluster submunition while serving in Iraq in 2003
Lora Lumpe — Coordinator of the U.S. Campaign to Ban Landmines and Cluster Bombs |
| Sea of Plastic |
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David Gorn — Producer/Reporter for KQED’s Quest
Provided by the Public Radio Exchange |
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