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SIRS Discoverer offers photo essays to help you learn about a topic. Click on the link to read the captions and look at the photos to learn about garbage in dumps which is also called solid waste in land fills. |
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| Photos below with AP credits are from the Accunet/AP Multimedia Archive Contact them at education@accuweather.com. | |
| Packaging Creates Waste |
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| Recycling |
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| Garbage in the ocean |
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| Every Town Has a Dump |
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video 1970 First Earth Day |
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A worker at CollectiveGood (cq) in Tucker, Ga., sorts through old cell phones and cell phone batteries for recycling Wednesday, April 20, 2005. When Earth Day dawned in 1970, optimistic environmentalists said emerging technologies would help reduce the nation's reliance on coal, oil, insecticides and other toxins. But 35 years later, a big part of the problem appears to be technology itself. Tons of computers, monitors, televisions and other electronic gizmos that contain hazardous chemicals, or "e-waste," may be poisoning people and ground water. Activists say the nation's biggest environmental problem may be the smallest devices, and this week they're launching campaigns to increase awareness about recycling cell phones, music players, handheld gaming consoles and other electronics. (AP Photo/John Bazemore) |
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solid waste recyclable hazardous waste landfill ecology groundwater pollution |