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Freakonomics » Your Garbage Questions, Answered →
Last week, we solicited your questions for journalist Edward Humes, who seems to love trash as much as we do. His new book is Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash. The rest over on Freakonomics, but here’s one interesting bit from Humes: Landfills are a waste of valuable resources. The single largest component of trash going into landfills today is packaging and containers —...
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Why You Should Give Stuff To Your Neighbors →
I was quite interested to read — via the link to Atlantic Cities above as well as on Science Daily — about research suggesting that “Freecycle generates feelings of group unity and cohesion [PDF] among the people who participate in it.” Freecycle is the “hey I have this thing if you want it let me know” service that I wrote about some years ago, calling the underlying...
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