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05/02/2017 / By Vicki Batts

Sri Lanka’s massive garbage piles now collapsing in deadly avalanches like a scene ripped right out of Idiocracy

If you’ve ever seen Idiocracy, you’re probably familiar with the “Great Garbage Avalanche of 2505.” Unfortunately for the real world, garbage avalanches have already started. It seems we’ve got a 500-year head start on making the dystopian world depicted in the film a reality. If we’re actually honest with ourselves, it’s obvious that the would-be joke […]

04/20/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield

Has Mount Everest become the world’s tallest garbage dump?

As a popular tourist trekking destination, abandoned garbage has become a problem for the world’s highest peak. Discarded cooking and oxygen cylinders, food packets, and tents are just some of the items that continue to litter the face of the mountain. As OurWorld.unu.enu notes, there is still no method of efficiently managing solid waste during […]

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