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Fri, 2012-06-08 00:05 — mdmcdonald
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YALE/TULANE ESF-8 PLANNING AND RESPONSE PROGRAM SPECIAL REPORT TYPHOON HAIYAN (YOLANDA PH) – THE PHILIPPINES

Tue, 2013-11-19 17:08 — Kathy Gilbeaux

http://www.slideshare.net/YALE-ESF8--VMOC

In light of Typhoon Haiyan, the Yale-Tulane ESF #8 Planning and Response Program has produced special reports for current efforts. To access these reports, click here.

The Yale-Tulane ESF #8 Program is a multi-disciplinary, multi-center, graduate-level program designed to produce ESF #8 planners and responders with standardized skill sets that are consistent with evolving public policy, technologies, and best practices. The group that produced this summary and analysis of the current situation are graduate students from Yale and Tulane Universities. It was compiled entirely from open source materials.

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Philippines - Needs Assessments

Tue, 2013-11-19 17:00 — Kathy Gilbeaux

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ECHO Daily Maps - http://ercportal.jrc.ec.europa.eu/Maps/Daily-maps-catalogue#

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be Waste Wise : Integrating Informal Sector Recycling in Latin America

Thu, 2013-08-08 00:12 — Kathy Gilbeaux

wastewise.be - http://wastewise.be/2013/07/integrating-the-informal-waste-recycling-sector/

submitted by Albert Gomez

Using 21st century tools to bridge the gap in waste solutions expertise worldwide.

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Seoul Employs Elderly To Tackle Phone Waste

Sat, 2013-08-03 22:26 — gl

submitted by Albert Gomez

An electronics waste handling facility called Seoul Resource Center in the northeast of the Seoul. Eco City

wsj.com - by Steven Borowiec - July 25, 2013

South Koreans are among the world’s most frequent phone upgraders, buying about 15 million new mobile phones each year

To tackle the issue of electronics waste, or e-waste, the Seoul city government is employing the elderly and low-income to breakdown and process parts with a program called Eco City.

“Our country lacks natural resources. We started this center after we realized that a lot of the kinds of things we need, like metals, were already in the country but were being thrown out,” Eco City Chief Executive Lee Dong-hyun said.

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Landfill Harmonic - The world sends us garbage... We send back music.

Tue, 2013-07-23 18:00 — Kathy Gilbeaux

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXynrsrTKbI

kickstarter.com - LANDFILL HARMONIC: Inspiring dreams one note at a time!

A heartfelt & moving story of how instruments made from recycled trash bring hope to children whose future is otherwise spiritless.

Too many children in the world are born into lives with little or no hope.

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The Bicyclean Uses Pedal Power to Safely Recycle E-Waste

Mon, 2012-10-08 00:26 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Samuel Bendett

              

inhabitat.com - by Morgana Matus - September 28, 2012

The Unites States generates more electronic waste than any other nation on earth.  According to the EPA, more than 4.6 million tons entered domestic landfills in 2000, and 50-80% of our total e-waste is exported to developing nations where defunct electronics wind up in dumps, polluting the environment, and littering neighborhoods. That’s why 22-year-old engineering graduate Rachel Field has invented the Bicyclean – a pedal-powered grinder and e-waste separation system.

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Wastewater Service Likely Culprit in Norovirus Outbreak

Sun, 2012-09-23 22:39 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Albert Gomez

newstalkzb.co.nz - by Jacqui Stanford - September 21, 2012

An investigation has found Cardrona's wastewater service is the likely culprit in a norovirus outbreak that hit the snow resort town last month.

Over a 15 day period 66 people went down with the nasty bug.

After a boil water notice was put in place no new cases have been reported.

Public health officials say sampling shows the norovirus is likely to have come from wastewater systems in the area.

http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/auckland/news/nbhea/1893145557-wastewater-service-likely-culprit-in-norovirus-outbreak

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Heinz® Ketchup Inspires More Environmentally Responsible Living This Summer with PlantBottle™ Packaging Promotion

Sat, 2012-09-01 23:27 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Alison Thompson

businesswire.com - July 17, 2012

A new Heinz(R) Ketchup campaign called "Join the Growing Movement" invites consumers to promise to be more environmentally responsible through a mobile application. For each pledge, Heinz will help plant a tree, up to 57,000 trees. (Photo: Business Wire)

http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=multimedia_detail&eid=50344063&newsLang=en

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120717006392/en/Heinz%C2%AE-Ketchup-Inspires-Environmentally-Responsible-Living-Summer

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What a Waste: A Global Review of Solid Waste Management

Tue, 2012-07-31 14:29 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Albert Gomez

web.worldbank.org

As the world hurtles toward its urban future, the amount of municipal solid waste (MSW), one of the most important by-products of an urban lifestyle, is growing even faster than the rate of urbanization. Ten years ago there were 2.9 billion urban residents who generated about 0.64 kg of MSW per person per day (0.68 billion tonnes per year).

This report estimates that today these amounts have increased to about 3 billion residents generating 1.2 kg per person per day (1.3 billion tonnes per year). By 2025 this will likely increase to 4.3 billion urban residents generating about 1.42 kg/capita/day of municipal solid waste (2.2 billion tonnes per year).

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Swimming With the Trash: A Marine Drone Seeks to Scoop up Plastic

Thu, 2012-07-12 23:09 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Albert Gomez

      

good.is - July 11, 2012

While there's been plenty of media pointing out or raising awareness about the disaster submerged right beneath sea level— the mountain-sized patch of plastic and other garbage that's been collecting in oceans around the world, particularly in the Pacific—there's less attention to some of the solutions that are currently in the works. Part of the reason is that the problem seems so huge (indeed, it's beyond the point of return) and so distant that it's not necessarily the easiest to conceive of steps to take action against.

Yet a crew of big-thinking designers has a concept for a trash-skimming and sensor-equipped "marine drone" that could detect trash in the ocean and scoop it into its net to be recycled. The drone is designed to navigate the ocean for two weeks at a time and would use an infrasound system to keep fish at bay.

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