What is the biggest toxic spill the US has ever experienced?

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A declaration that should have been made months ago, was finally made yesterday by the World Health Organization (WHO) from its Geneva headquarters. WHO officially declared the current outbreak of swine flu cases worldwide a pandemic. The declaration, prompted by the rapidly rising number of cases (close to 30,000) worldwide, will prompt drug manufacturers  to [...]

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Stumbled upon this picture in the web today,  it’s called Mobile Evolution: Miniaturisation in the style of a Russian Doll by British artist Kyle Bean.

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In a move widely perceived as an effort to solidify its dominance in the US data phone market, Apple has unveiled the latest version of the hugely popular iPhone 3G series. The new model,  iPhone 3G S will be available in the US and in 80 different countries worldwide on June 19th, Friday of next [...]

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In our recent post on fake recycling events uncovered by the Basel Action Network in Pennsylvania, we’ve noted that although it isn’t the industry norm yet, more and more electronic manufacturers are taking responsibility for the proper disposal of their products.  I believe this is the best solution to the deluge of e-waste that we [...]

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I came across the concept of cradle-to-cradle recycling while doing research for our latest lens Recycling! Recycling!, now available for viewing at Squidoo. It’s basically a gateway lens to all of our recycling lenses. If you’re doing some research on Plastic Recycling, or Cell Phone Recycling, or E-Waste Recycling, for example, this new lens is [...]

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The Basel Action Network (BAN) has uncovered another illegal scheme by unscrupulous recyclers, who were working through a legitimate organization to ship electronic waste to developing countries. Apparently, the company, tasked to handle the electronic waste, was working with the Western Pennsylvania Humane Society in collecting used electronic items from residents, promising to have the [...]

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Teaching recycling to kids is an uphill struggle if you don’t inject fun and exciting, hands-on activities into the process. That’s why when we created our latest lens, Recycling for Kids, we made sure that we can gather, in one location, as many links as possible to the most popular and coolest kids’ recycling sites [...]

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