Throughout North America, municipalities are struggling to find ways to
dispose of their trash. But as the Great Lakes Radio Consortium
commentator Suzanne Elston has discovered, there is one state that’s
actually welcoming its neighbors’ garbage:
Tag: trash
Landfill Golf Takes Off
For years, developers have been have been re-using old dumps by buildingover them. Some of these projects have been successful. The HarborsideInternational Golf Center in Chicago, built over a landfill, is one of themost popular in the city. But other cities have been forced to CLOSElandfill golf courses. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s Julie GrantCooper reports on the first landfill golf courses in Ohio, and the lessonsits developers are learning from older projects:
One Man Clean-Up Gathers Steam
Last year, Chad Pegracke of Illinois took it upon himself to
pick up trash from the banks of the Mississippi River. His one-man mission
attracted attention. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s Jim Meadows
reports:
Commentary – Recycling at Risk
In recent months, the country’s solid waste companies have been engaged in what amounts to a battle of the giants. As corporations like USA Waste and Waste Management merge and gain power, small, independent waste haulers are being swallowed whole. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s Gayle Miller believes the frenzy in the solid waste industry spells bad news for recycling:
Commentary – Fast Food Fiasco
Our increasingly busy lifestyles have made fast food a regular item inmost families. But as Great Lakes Radio Consortium Commentator SuzanneElston points out, the food may be fast, but the legacy it leaves, iswith us for centuries:
Commentary – Reducing Backyard Waste
With Spring upon us, the weather has allowed us to spend some time planting in the garden and cleaning up the yard. But did you know that yard waste accounts for about fifteen percent of total household trash? Great Lakes Radio Consortium Commentator Bob Lilienfeld tells us how to reduce organic waste coming from our lawns:
One Man’s Quest for a Clean Shoreline
In 1997, an Illinois man single-handedly cleaned fifty-miles of Mississippi River shoreline. This summer he’s aiming for more than four-hundred miles. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s Herb Trix reports:
Commentary – Cutting Paper Waste
Remember the paperless society? As we all know, it never really happened. Great Lakes Radio Consortium commentator Bob Lilienfeld knows why, and has some suggestions on ways to cut back on the ever-increasing avalanche of paper used and thrown away:
Commentary – Disposable Pride
Modern inventions are designed to make our lives easier. But as Great Lakes Radio Consortium commentator Suzanne Elston points out, sometimes easier isn’t always better:
Commentary – Breast Feeding
Formula feeding babies sends thousands of tons of garbage to the dumps every year, but as Great Lakes Radio Consortium commentator Suzanne Elston has discovered, waste is just one of it’s many ecological impacts: