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Sun May 24

• How to (responsibly) dump your old TV - Articles - Home Entertainment: Carrying a poisonous cargo of almost 2kgs of lead and other heavy metals, millions of old televisions are finding their way into Australian landfills each year, rather than being recycled. Around three million new televisions hit our shores last year as the popularity of flat screen technology and the looming 2010 switchover from analogue to digital drove a blistering pace of consumption.
• School Waste Reduction Publications
• Dumpster Diving Documentary on the Joy of Free Food
• BBC NEWS | Technology | UK 'worst electrical recycler'
• Guide to water pollution
• $35 waste tax to keep old TVs out of landfill | smh.com.au: AUSTRALIANS face a new tax on electronic goods such as televisions and computers next year - in return for guarantees the electronic waste will not be dumped in landfill or shipped overseas. The Federal Government is also considering a national scheme for refunds on bottles and cans and will hold public consultations. But the national plan to ban plastic bags, which the Environment Minister, Peter Garrett, had backed unequivocally in the past, appears to have been dropped.

Sat May 23

• New wonder plant catches nutrients from wastewater and may be the new, cleaner ethanol | Rodale Institute
• BAGSTER bag - The 3 cubic yard Dumpster-In-A- Bag
• The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard
• Uncovering the Secrets Beneath the Surface of the New York Harbor [NY Magazine]: "What lies beneath the surface of New York Harbor? For starters, a 350-foot steamship, 1,600 bars of silver, a freight train, and four-foot-long cement-eating worms."

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