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A research review suggests that pharmaceuticals commonly found in the environment are affecting the water quality of rivers and streams, which is also impacting upon aquatic life and water quality.
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Sydney -
A Sydney man caught dumping waste just outside the city on numerous occasions will need at least 60 years to pay off his fines.
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Buy one get one free, often means buy one and bin the other one reports a new British study on food waste from the UK’s Institution of Mechanical Engineers titled Global Food, Waste Not Want Not.
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Concord -
One of the oddest laws in the US that came into force January 1 was a ban on the sale of single serving bottled water by the town of Concord, Massachusetts. The ban is the result of a three-year campaign by activists.
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Walgreen Co.,the largest American drug retailing chain in the United States, has been fined $16.57 million to settle a lawsuit. The lawsuit claimed that more than 600 Walgreen stores illegally dumped hazardous waste.
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Angers -
Dutch sculptor Florentijn Hofman does not do things by halves, so there was a sense of anticipation when it was revealed that Hofman would be constructing a sculpture in the city of Angers located in Pays de la Loire region in western France.
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That's right, you heard it. Sweden is just so good at recycling, it actually needs to import trash from other European countries to power its waste-to-energy program.
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Tennis players in France get through a staggering 14 million tennis balls each year. The French Tennis Federation has come up with a novel solution to recycle old tennis balls generating a benefit to communities.
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A tiny village in North West France has come up with a novel waste disposal scheme combining cost saving, environmental and social benefits.
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Just when you thought that plastic waste was never going to break down in the environment, along comes Mother Nature to solve the problem.
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