Environmental News - Weekly!

A blog dedicated to bringing you the latest developements in all things environmental, geographical, ecological, etc!

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picking up litter is worth it!!

individual environmentalism gets a lot of flak in the face of corporate pollution but picking up litter makes a significant, noticeable impact. I spend about an hour a week picking up litter from around my dorm complex and I'm literally outpacing my community's litter production. Just an hour a week from one person is enough to offset nearly 200 people's worth of littering.

it would take less than 100 man-hours of labor per week to keep my whole college campus entirely litter-free. If you got two classrooms' worth of people to spend two hours per week each picking up litter, the whole campus would end up spotless and they'd straight up fucking run out of things to pick up.

If you're looking for some way to make a noticeable and positive impact on the world around you, go pick up some litter.

[shamanicganja]

[dr-otter]

But I love all of them 💙

[headspace-hotel]

i need y'all to steal and repost my anti-lawn memes to as many pinterest boards and facebook pages as possible

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[lennyjamin]

The correction isn't entirely accurate. I'm a student of environmental science, so here's my understanding from my classes:

Well-built solar panels can last up to 50 years, but are usually only warrantied for 25-30.

You can keep using less efficient solar panels, and they're often resold at lower prices for end-of-life usage.

Solar panel waste is absolutely not more toxic than nuclear waste. However, it does often contain heavy metals like lead and cadmium that can be dangerous to human health in high enough concentration. So, depending on local laws & the composition of the specific solar panel, solar panel waste may or may not be classified as hazardous waste.

Solar panel waste is, unfortunately, not easy to recycle. Their layered structure makes efficiently separating the components difficult, and it's currently cheaper to landfill them. However, as solar panels age, more and more places are developing techniques and legislating recycling! The future is bright!

The concern about solar waste being sent to poorer countries? It's a real problem. However, that doesn't mean we shouldn't make solar panels, as this guy seems to be insinuating - we just need to plan their end of life better. We have the tools!

[indeedgoodman]

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[intersectionalpraxis]

images I screenshotted towards the end of this video clip:

Original Tweet/X Post states: Presenting, "your sustainable future with eV batteries" Brought to you by: Cobalt Mines of Congo. Twitter/X User Response: What scares me is so much "green" technology and products and such are built off human suffering. The entire world is built on this. The entire world is irrevobaly tied to mass exploitation and I desperately hope that changes in my lifetime. #CongoGenocide #CongoIsBleeding

I have attached a video below these Tweet/X images of Congolese people in Cobalt mines. Video Description: Men, in front of a large, dark brown and muddy area of the mine are digging other men out of a hole that have been inside, excavating for Cobalt. These men are not wearing any protective equipment; other than something to cover their eyes, like goggles and lights attached to them. There is a crowd of people surrounding this area and many are cheering them on; a few men are pulled out due to the velocity/force of being pushed out of the mine area they are coming out from. It looks like the mine is opening up and down like the entrance of a beast's mouth. The exit of this part of the mine opens and closes several times during this video. I took a screenshot at the end of the video to showcase how many people have gathered, and there appears to be hundreds.

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[witchboxco]

[benvironment]

How long before the word 'unusually' is dropped from weather forecasts, I wonder?

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[wachinyeya]

New Technology Captures Emissions While Vehicles Are on the Move

Mobile carbon capture is the process of capturing CO2 while the vehicle while it is in motion and before it is released into the atmosphere.

[sleepii-freddie-deactivated2024]

I hope in the near future people will realize that having your own kids is literally the worst possible thing you can do for the environment, and more people will either adopt or not raise kids at all

[politijohn]

Source

Surprising no one, the “report also found that none of the fossil fuel companies were making the needed commitments to move away from fossil fuel extraction or production.”

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[elodieunderglass]

Signs like these are community-changing. They reframe the whole verge.

[winterlorn]

Chemical pollution has passed safe limit for humanity, say scientists

Study calls for cap on production and release as pollution threatens global ecosystems upon which life depends

The cocktail of chemical pollution that pervades the planet now threatens the stability of global ecosystems upon which humanity depends, scientists have said.

Plastics are of particularly high concern, they said, along with 350,000 synthetic chemicals including pesticides, industrial compounds and antibiotics. Plastic pollution is now found from the summit of Mount Everest to the deepest oceans, and some toxic chemicals, such as PCBs, are long-lasting and widespread.

The study concludes that chemical pollution has crossed a “planetary boundary”, the point at which human-made changes to the Earth push it outside the stable environment of the last 10,000 years.