A Barge Full of Garbage Helped to Fuel a Recycling Movement| Retro Report on PBS
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- In the 1980s, rising public awareness about waste was fueled by a bizarre news story about a meandering New York City garbage barge. Today, Americans recycle about 68 million tons of trash. Educators, check out our environmental collection: bit.ly/RR-Enviro
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The GarBarge™
Likeable and interesting guy, this business man behind the Mobro. Wish him the best for South America!
He's charming and dreams big!
a true entrepreneur
I recently read my kids a children’s book about this situation. Perhaps from vague memory, I just knew it had to be a true story…
I watched this in school from my teacher
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Six million pounds of garbage is two and a half days in NYC.
Very enlightening
Every single factory should have to recycle their own garbage or at least make products that can be easy recycled. The same thing should go for air pollution, and pollutints of any type. Not just flushing them into the ocean or a fresh water source, these factories don't own the ocean, air, and land they destroy yet they're not forced by any standard to fix what they destroy.
My science wants to me watch this video and I like it I learn a lot from it
Great to hear! It's one of our favorites.
So at the end, his idea 💡 didn’t yield positively. He had to switch to Iron ore importation🤦🏽♂️🙂
This is a repost, I liked the original better.
Part of our mission as a nonprofit is to keep updating stories as new information arises. This is one of those updates, while other recent stories are completely new.
1st comment!
PLEASE STOP REPUBLISHING OLD NEWS AS NEW!
This story is part of a show we are doing with PBS called "Retro Report on PBS." It is made up of new stories and older stories that we have updated. Part of our mission as a nonprofit is to update stories as news changes. This is one of those updates.
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