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The Food and Agriculture Industries: Food Packaging and Waste Disposal
Americans dispose of more than two hundred million tons of trash each year, and a significant percentage of that is food packaging. As the public
Subject: trash
Transcript: [ ruston ] we have about 208 million tons Of trash disposed every year... Or created every year by americans. And about a third of that is packaging
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Waste, Part I: Municipal Landfills
When it was opened in 1948, the Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island in New York was supposed to be a temporary measure of only five years duration. Built on a wetlands with no liner to prevent groundwater contamination, the site has been kept in o...
Subject: trash
Transcript: [ narrator ] municipal and nonhazardous household trash, by volume, is the largest waste stream. as was common in the past, burying garbage in