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Trained Falcons Keep Birds Out of the Trash
Post date:Landfills are required by law to scare birds away which is why they hire falconers like Joe Suffredini. Raptors work better than mechanical bird abatement techniques.
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earth day
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Why Sorting Your Trash Into Blue Bins Isn't Recycling
Post date:You might be tempted, gazing out on a nation awash in blue bins, to conclude that recycling has won that environmental revolution that started 25 years ago. You'd be wrong.
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Obama Administration Finally Seeing the Light on Disturbed Land Solar?
Post date:Obama administration policy on development of renewable energy for the last six years has often been marked by intransigence against siting big solar and wind facilities on disturbed land rather than intact wildlife habitat. But a relatively obscure cl...
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Environmental Protection Agency
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EPA Wants Your Feedback On Landfill Solar
Post date:The EPA wants your feedback on guidelines for promoting landfill solar projects.
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Energy
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Running Cars On Compost? California Makes a Move.
Post date:Anaerobic decomposition in landfills has long been tapped as a source of electrical power, but using the resulting gas to power vehicles hasn't yet been tried.
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1st and Spring
L.A.'s Plastic and Paper Bag Ban is Built on Past Mistakes
Post date:As far as environmental topics go, plastic bags are among the top targets. But paper has baggage, too, and Los Angeles is poised to take on both with the strictest bag ban ordinance in the country.