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So-called waste-to-energy plants are the waste management industry’s way of describing toxic incinerators that burn trash and leave extremely toxic ash containing dioxin, mercury, arsenic and more. The Covanta incinerator in Chester, Pennsylvania, is the largest one of its kind in the U.S. Chester is a low-income community near Philadelphia, with a population of 33,000 […]
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US Spending $1.2 Billion on Merck’s COVID-19 Treatment Is a ‘Waste of Taxpayers’ Money’: Doctor
June 17th, 2021 
Awake Goy A critical care doctor has said it’s a waste of taxpayers’ money for the U.S. government to purchase drug company Merck’s anti-viral treatment for COVID-19, if it’s approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Dr. Pierre Kory, president and chief medical officer of the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC), said there’s no […]
E-waste effigies near G7 venue mimic leaders attending weekend summit
June 11th, 2021 Awake Goy Leaders of the G7 countries visiting Cornwall for this week’s summit have been immortalised in a sculpture of recycled electronic waste. Dubbed ‘Mount Recyclemore’, the piece is based on Mount Rushmore in the US, but instead depicts the seven politicians including UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, US President Joe Biden and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. […]
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No Comments »The local initiatives in France taking on the problem of plastic waste
June 4th, 2021 Awake Goy For the duration of euronews’ Green Week, our magazine and news teams are exploring stories and solutions for a better planet from across Europe. Every year, 600 000 tonnes of plastic end up in the Mediterranean Sea. France is the largest producer of plastic waste in the region and has a lower recycling rate than […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: France, initiatives, local, plastic, problem, taking, waste No Comments »20 companies are responsible for producing over half of all single-use plastic waste
May 21st, 2021 Awake Goy In the first ever “Plastic Waste Makers Index” report published Tuesday, researchers revealed 20 companies are responsible for producing over 55 percent of all single-use plastic waste in the world. The 20 global businesses are both state-owned and multinational corporations, consisting mainly of energy and chemical giants, and are responsible for a plastic waste footprint […]
Woolworths, Coles Pledge to Radically Reduce Plastic Waste in Ambitious Pact
May 18th, 2021 Awake Goy Leading supermarket giants Woolworths and Coles are committing to ambitious goals to fight plastic waste through a vision of ensuring all plastic packaging are recyclable, reusable or compostable by 2025. The two supermarket groups have joined 60 groups—including ALDI and Nestle—across the supply chain that have signed up to the ‘Australia, New Zealand and Pacific […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: Coles, plastic, pledge, radically, reduce, waste, Woolworths No Comments »Where does all the radioactive fracking waste go?
April 25th, 2021 Awake Goy Image Credit: George Etheredge/Rolling Stone On May 8, 2017, a drum of radioactive oilfield waste from Australia arrived at a remote West Texas disposal site operated by local oil and gas environmental services company, Lotus LLC. This drum of waste entered the United States aboard a Singapore Airlines cargo jet, appropriately packaged in a steel […]
$23m allocated to waste management in coastal provinces
April 23rd, 2021 Awake Goy TEHRAN – A total of 1 trillion rials (nearly $23 million at the official rate of 42,000 rials) has been earmarked to tackle the issue of waste management in northern coastal provinces, deputy head of Iran’s municipalities and village administrators said. Highlighting that solving the waste problem in the country requires the participation of the […]
‘Forever’ Battery Made from Nuclear Waste Takes 28,000 Years to Run Out of Charge
March 29th, 2021 Awake Goy California startup Nano Diamond Battery (NDB) says it has designed a battery made from nuclear waste that will take up to 28,000 years to run out of charge. Image source: RT News YouTube.com The “forever” diamond battery was developed for use in deep space and other niche applications, but a consumer-facing prototype is also in […]
10 Examples of Kickbacks & Waste in New ‘COVID’ Bill Showing It’s Not About COVID at All
February 24th, 2021 Awake Goy (FEE) President Biden has proposed $1.9 trillion in additional COVID-19 spending. He’s asking Congress to authorize another round of checks, more expanded unemployment benefits, a $15 minimum wage, and much, much more. Over the weekend, House Democrats finally released the text of the 600-page bill meant to make Biden’s broad COVID proposals a legislative reality. Critics and economists have […]
Newborn baby girl found alive in underground waste container near Amsterdam
February 23rd, 2021 Awake Goy Police in the Netherlands have found a newborn baby girl alive in an underground waste container. The baby was discovered by the authorities late on Sunday evening at a residential area in Meernhof, southeast of the capital, Amsterdam. She is in a stable condition in hospital, police said. “At around 22.40, the police incident room […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: alive, Amsterdam, container, found, newborn, underground, waste No Comments »Japan to waste millions of doses of Pfizer vaccine because of syringe mixup
February 10th, 2021 Awake Goy A shortage of specialist syringes in Japan means millions of people will not receive the Pfizer covid-19 vaccine. Standard syringes cannot extract the sixth and final dose from each vial manufactured by the US drugmaker. Without the specialist syringes, the final dose will be discarded. Japan has secured 144 million shots of the Pfizer vaccine, […]
Overpopulation, food waste and climate change
February 9th, 2021 Awake Goy In 1960 there were around 3 billion people on Earth, by December 2020 the number had leapt to 7.8 billion. The world is wildly overpopulated: with every day that passes the numbers grow, and the collective human impact on the environment intensifies. If the current rate of growth continues the UN estimates that by 2050 […]
“Your Question Is A Waste Of Time” Pelosi Snaps At Reporter
February 9th, 2021 Awake Goy During her weekly news briefing on Capital Hill last week, Nancy Pelosi lashed out at a reporter who raised an impeachment question The journalist first asked the House Speaker what her opinion was on reports that Lindsey Graham had threatened to call in the FBI for Trump’s impeachment trial. “Your question is a waste of […]
Fracked waste spews from unused gas well in Ohio entering waterways and harming fish
February 7th, 2021 Awake Goy Credit: Sarah Craig/Faces of Fracking, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 On Thursday, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources confirmed a fracked gas well in Noble County, Ohio had spilled toxic radioactive oil and gas for more than a week. The fluid, referred to as “produced brine” entered waterways contaminating ground water and harming fish in the Crooked […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: entering, fracked, harming, spews, unused, waste, waterways No Comments »Heavy rain helps bring Western Balkans’ waste problem into view
January 23rd, 2021 Awake Goy Recent heavy rain has helped highlight the Western Balkans’ rubbish problem. Earlier in January, islands of waste formed on the Drina River near Visegrad in Bosnia and Herzegovina. They were caused by swollen winter waters surged over landfill sites near the river banks. There was also a build-up of rubbish at Potpecko Lake near Priboj […]
This week in pictures: Trump supporters in Capitol, snow record in Spain, waste islands in Bosnia
January 9th, 2021 Awake Goy This week five people died after a mob broke into the US Capitol building while Congress met to certify Joe Biden’s win. While in Europe, Spain recorded its coldest ever temperature ever at -35.8°C, floating waste was shown clogging a river in Bosnia, and the EU admitted a sharp rise in illegal sea crossings (with […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: capitol, pictures, record, Spain, supporters, Trump, waste No Comments »Bali battles mounting plastic waste as rainy season causes build-up
January 9th, 2021 Awake Goy An army of volunteers helps clean up a massive haul of plastic polluting Bali’s famous Kuta beach. The annual rainy season brings plastic bottles, cups and rubbish to the archipelago’s turquoise water beaches, underscoring its place as the world’s second-biggest marine polluter behind China.
Rand Paul Releases ‘Festivus’ List of Grievances Detailing $54B in Government Waste
December 24th, 2020 Awake Goy Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) released his annual report this week detailing government waste in honor of the parody holiday “Festivus,” highlighting over $54 billion in taxpayer dollars spent on items including a study examining eating ground-up bugs, spraying alcoholic rats with bobcat urine, and walking lizards on a treadmill. “Good morning and Happy #Festivus. Today we will […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: detailing, festivus, government, grievances, releases, waste No Comments »‘No time to waste’: Biden introduces his climate team
December 20th, 2020 Awake Goy US President-elect Joe Biden introduced his climate team on Saturday which will be tasked with moving the country toward more action to combat the climate crisis. “We literally have no time to waste,” Biden told reporters as he introduced his choices, comparing the need for a climate response to the COVID-19 pandemic. “Folks, we’re in […]
10 Ways to Reduce Your Waste This Holiday Season
December 7th, 2020 Awake Goy December 7th, 2020 By Jane Marsh Guest Writer for Wake Up World The holiday season is a significant contributor to waste. Americans produce 25 million tons of garbage between Thanksgiving and New Year’s. Fortunately, you can do your part to reduce your impact. A few tricks will ensure you have a waste-free holiday season. Here […]
“Mind-boggling” waste revealed in the record rise in weapons spending – Michael West
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Why COVID-19 Testing Is a Tragic Waste
November 27th, 2020 Awake Goy Why COVID-19 Testing Is a Tragic Waste Prepare For Change / Derek Knauss From Dr. Joseph Mercola’s website: Story at-a-glance PCR tests are not designed to be used as a diagnostic tool as they cannot distinguish between inactive viruses and “live” or reproductive ones Amplification over 35 cycles is considered unreliable and scientifically unjustified, yet […]
The Amazing UNESCO Site Going to Waste in Israel
November 24th, 2020 Awake Goy Download App© Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, and analysis from Israel and the Middle East © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved
EPA Approves Radioactive Waste Product in Road Construction
October 30th, 2020 Awake Goy By ManaSota-88, Inc. a 501.c3 Public Health and Environmental Organization Hazardous Waste Being Mixed into Roads If you live next to a road, will you be living next to a hazardous waste site? Unfortunately, this may be a reality for many, especially in Florida. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced they will approve the […]
Amount of e-waste explodes, world lags behind, with much reaching pirate sites
October 16th, 2020 Awake Goy Download App© Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, and analysis from Israel and the Middle East © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved
‘Zero waste car’ made by Dutch team with bio-based tech of Israeli startup UBQ
October 13th, 2020 Awake Goy A team of students from the Eindhoven University of Technology in The Netherlands has designed a zero-waste car made out of bio-based material developed by Israeli startup UBQ Materials. The Israeli firm has patented a process to convert household trash, organic, paper and plastic, including banana peels, dirty diapers, used yogurt containers and cardboard — […]
“I’m not going to waste my time on a virtual debate,” says Trump after format changed to prevent spread of Covid-19
October 9th, 2020 Awake Goy Update: President Donald Trump said Thursday morning that he’s “not gonna do a virtual debate” shortly after the Commission on Presidential Debates announced that next week’s town hall-style event will take place remotely to prevent the spread of Covid-19, which the president was diagnosed with just last week. “I’m not going to waste my time […]
Germany’s search for permanent nuclear waste sites
September 30th, 2020 Awake Goy Germany is on the hunt for a place to store its nuclear waste, and an interim report has pinpointed 90 potential sites. As the country decommissions its atomic energy facilities, the arguments over where the waste should be buried are heating up. Bavaria has already declared no waste will be stored there. “We have found […]
Solar panels generate mountains of waste
September 20th, 2020 Awake Goy Iowa Climate Science Education Isn’t sunshine a free fuel? “Harnessing sunshine (and wind) to serve humanity is not free – or clean, green, renewable or sustainable,”Duggan Flanakin points out. ______________ “Duggan Flanakin has written another important, perceptive article,” writes Paul Driessen. “This one examines the enormous amounts of plastic, metallic and dangerous chemical wastes that […]
