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		<title>Reduce Waste, Find Your Old Belongings a New Home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past century America has grown to become an extremely wasteful society.  The portion sizes provided at not only fast food chains, but most American restaurants, are unreal.  Or stop to think of how many times you’ve thrown away old clothes or furniture that could have easily been reused by someone else.  American industries [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should the US use Waste Incineration for Energy?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It appears that European countries such as Denmark are finding ways to generate clean energy—through trash.  Massive energy plants have been constructed that burn thousands of tons of household garbage and industrial waste per day. These ‘waste-to-energy’ plants are way cleaner than conventional incinerators. As the plant converts trash into heat, dozens of filters catch [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ecotrashsolutions.com/2010/06/22/should-the-us-use-waste-incineration-for-energy/</link>
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		<title>Don’t Forget the First Two Steps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Reduce, Re-use, Recycle” is a longstanding, simple mantra to explain the process that protects the health of our planet.  While the campaign to recycle has certainly caught on across the globe over the past 2 decades, the reducing and re-using parts of the three-pronged strategy are often overlooked.  Here are some simple tips and reminders [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ecotrashsolutions.com/2010/06/22/don%e2%80%99t-forget-the-first-two-steps/</link>
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		<title>How ‘Trashy’ is the United States</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to the EPA, the US has around 3,091 active landfills and over 10,000 old municipal landfills. What’s worse, 82% of surveyed landfill cells had leaks and 41% had a leak area of more than 1 square foot.  The reality is that Americans generate a LOT of trash and this trash is capable generating a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gross to Gold</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Leftovers, rotten banana peels, and weeds may sound like nothing but useless garbage.  However, these unwanted waste products can be composted to create rich soil for growing plants and vegetables, while reducing the amount of trash you send to the landfill.
Compost is created when aerobic microbes such as fungi and bacteria digest and breakdown the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ecotrashsolutions.com/2010/06/22/gross-to-gold/</link>
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		<title>Think Globally—Act Locally</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On a global scale, the earth is facing environmental problems that affect the atmosphere and climate. These problems don’t just arise out of nowhere—evidence suggests the reasons are anthropogenic (manmade).  If we contributed to the slow and steady onset of global warming, it is only logical that we should try our best to reverse it. [...]]]></description>
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