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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), phthalates, 40–41, 45
14–16, 21, 24–26, 32–33, 34–39, plankton, 73–74
42–44, 63 plastics, 5–6, 15–17, 19, 21, 29, 58–60,
e-Trash Transparency Project, 68 63–65, 83, 90
history of, 10, 12
Feeding the 5000, 52–55
food waste, 6, 17, 46–55, 56, 57, 59, 61 incineration of, 12, 64
fossil fuels, 26, 52 in landfills, 22, 61
fracking, 43 in oceans, 4–5, 70–81
toxins associated with, 14, 35–36, 38,
garbologists, 19 40–42, 44–45
global hunger, 48, 55 polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), 38–39,
Gold King Mine, 32–33 43, 76
Great Pacific Garbage Patch, 71–73, 75, 79–80 polymers, 74, 76
greenhouse gases, 26 polyvinyl chloride (PVC), 12, 40–42, 45
hard rock mining, 33–34 Puente Hills Landfill, 27–29
heavy metals, 15, 22 radioactive waste. See nuclear waste
Henry the Fish, 75 recycling, 5–6, 8–9, 14–16, 18–19, 22, 29–30,
herbicides, 35, 38, 52 59–61, 63–69, 75, 79, 81, 90
Hungry Harvest, 55–56 Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
hydrocarbons, 38 (RCRA), 15
incinerators, 6–7, 11–12, 13, 14–15, 29, 30, sanitary landfills, 11, 15, 21, 23
36–37, 44, 47, 59, 61 See also landfills
industrialization, 8–9 sanitation, 11, 21, 59
infographics, 23, 72 satellites, 82–90
International Space Station, 85–86 Silent Spring (Carson), 15
Kessler syndrome, 84 Slat, Boyan, 78–80
Solid Waste Disposal Act, 15
Landfill Methane Outreach Program, 26–28 space junk, 82–86, 88–89
landfills, 6, 11–12, 13–15, 21–29, 31, 38–39, cleanup proposals, 86–88
42–44, 47, 48, 51, 57, 59–61, 71–72, Superfund, 16–17
75, 90
leachate, 22, 24–25, 43 Tittabawassee River, 37–38
Los Angeles, 4–5, 70 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI), 35–36
and air pollution, 13, 27–29 toxic waste, 16–18, 24, 32–35, 38, 40, 42–44,
59, 63, 68, 82
materials recovery facilities (MRFs), 29
Meatless Monday, 53 United States, 9, 27, 33–35, 37–38, 59, 76,
methane, 23, 24, 26–28, 31, 48, 52 80, 82, 85–86
middens, 8 and food waste, 47–52, 55, 57
Moore, Charles J., 70–71, 73–74 and garbage, 5, 6, 11, 16–17, 20–21, 24,
Mr. Trash Wheel, 80 28, 30–31
and toxic waste, 15–16, 40–43, 63–64,
North Pacific Gyre. See Great Pacific Garbage 67–69
Patch
nuclear waste, 41, 68, 90 water pollution, 4–5, 15, 18, 22, 32–33,
nurdles, 73–74, 76 37–38, 44, 70–81
wildlife, 31, 33, 35, 43, 52, 91
ocean, garbage in, 4–5, 17, 70–81 and plastic pollution, 74–78
Ocean Cleanup Array, 78–79
Zero Percent, 56–57
pesticides, 12, 15, 34, 35–36, 45, 52, 76
petrochemicals, 12 zombie satellites, 84, 87

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