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Would you like netwrap, twine or plastic with your bale?
2016-06-27 10:00:00| Beef
SPONSORED Your bale packaging material isnt just about bale presentation, its about potential storage losses, herd health, feed value, weight gains, meat/milk production, and fuel and labor costs. read more
Four Tons of Plastic Discovered to Be Smuggled Pangolin Scales
2016-06-26 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Four Tons of "Plastic' Discovered to Be Smuggled Pangolin Scales In this week's crime blotter: prison for an auctioneer, a bird researcher bust, and a suspected ranger turned poacher. Last year Indonesian authorities confiscated these dead pangolins. The animals are poached for their scales and meat. Photograph by Binsar Bakkara, AP Hong Kong officials made one of the largest ever seizures of African pangolin scales on Thursday after discovering 4.4 tons (4,000...
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Netherlands Ocean Cleanup reveals North Sea prototype to clean oceans of plastic
2016-06-24 01:00:00| Ship Technology
The Netherland-based foundation The Ocean Cleanup has unveiled an ocean cleanup system, North Sea prototype test, which will be deployed for first sea trial later this week.
NYC Plastic Bag Fee Postponed Until 2017
2016-06-23 15:42:00| Waste Age
New Yorks City Council has voted to postpone its proposed five-cent fee on plastic bags until February 2017. read more
Whats worse, burning plastic or sending it to a landfill?
2016-06-23 12:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Q. Dear Umbra, What`s worse: burning plastic trash, or letting it sit in a landfill? I`m thinking of not-easily-recyclable plastic packaging especially - are its components perhaps more easily dispersed as gases rather than slowly leaching in a landfill? Signed, Wilburforce A. Dearest Wilburforce, As anyone who has ever witnessed someone toss an errant water bottle or crinkly wrapper into a campfire can attest, burning plastic is a nasty business. It stinks; it spews oddly colored...
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