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Duluth's annual Clean and Green Week will kick off on Monday, April 8th with help from Mayor Don Ness and the Duluth Boys and Girls Club.

Chris Allen — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:57:46 +0000

Getting back into Spring, the City of Duluth has many areas that need help. You can make a difference by cleaning your area around your house, picking a place in the city to pick up garbage, but you are invited to help Clean and Green week starting Monday. Clean and Green Week is Duluth’s yearly [...]

Tsunami Debris Adds To Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Steve Tanko — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 20:07:00 +0000

Pop cans and candy wrappers. Plastic bottles and plastic bags. Rope. Propane tanks.

The stuff that gets thrown away and ends up in the Pacific Ocean never really goes away - it just ends up collecting in a giant "swirl of garbage" that's called The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Currents and gravity collect the garbage into a floating patch that's currently twice the size of Texas.

Food Waste: To Recycle Or Not

Steve Tanko — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:15:08 +0000

It's astounding to think of how much of the food a single person or family buys actually gets thrown away as waste. Case in point froma post-Thanksgiving blog I stumbled across:
As Americans across the country prep their 20-pound Butterballs for the annual gorge fest of Thanksgiving, I had a flashback to a story I reported earlier this year

The World's Filthiest Places

Rayman — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 16:54:55 +0000

I was once at a huge landfill in New Jersey. It was so bad it was scary. Take a minute and look at these pictures. Amazing how people can live like this.

It’s easy to take for granted the relative cleanliness of your surroundings when it’s all you know, and it’s safe to say that most of the people reading this will no doubt have grown up in societies equipped with the resources necessary to keep their local communities — streets, rivers, parks, etc. — free of litter and pollution, or at least clean enough not to have their health threatened.