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  • Estero de Binondo stream in the Chinatown area of Manila is covered with itinerant homes. You can no longer see the stream in most areas because it is choked with plastic waste. The stream is actually on the left side of this photos.  These residents will be moved to Bulcan, a settlement in the north. Even though the Pasig was cleaned up with major effort, plastic still flows from these areas into that river which makes Philippines one of the top three countries that pollute the oceans with plastics.
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  • Children play on the shore of Manila Bay which is polluted by household waste, plastics, and other trash.
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  • A Ratha Yatra religious festival in temple town of Puri.
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  • Crowds at the Churchgate Railway Station in Mumbai flow between the trains. By 2030 it is estimated that 60% (4.9 billion) worldwide will live in cities.
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  • Raw timber logs in a lumberyard.
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  • Gray currants are gathered by Tlingit people for subsistence.
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  • Timber is loaded onto barges and taken to a saw mill for processing.
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  • Logs are floated and will be loaded on a ship for export.
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  • A waterfall spills into a rocky karst area of Prince of Wales Island.
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  • A hand holding taro plants.
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  • A student picks up clothing to get dressed for class.
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  • A bottled water plant in Hollis, Maine, has reduced the plastic in its half-liter bottles by 62 percent since 1994.
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  • A bottled water plant in Hollis, Maine, has reduced the plastic in its half-liter bottles by 62 percent since 1994.
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  • A shop that sells plastics.
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  • Plastic recycling in Bangladesh.
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  • In Dhaka, Bangladesh, laborers sort through a huge pile of discarded plastic bottles.
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  • In Dhaka, Bangladesh, laborers sort through a huge pile of discarded plastic bottles.
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  • Plastic sorting in the Philippines.
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  • Plastic bottles fill a recycling facility in Valenzuela, Philippines.
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  • Plastic bottles are shredded at a recycling facility in Valenzuela, Philippines.
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  • Plastic bottles are shredded at a recycling facility in Valenzuela, Philippines.
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  • Estero de Binondo stream in the Chinatown area of Manila is covered with itinerant homes to the degree that the stream is no longer visible. It is choked with plastic waste. Hardly believable, the stream in this photo is on the left side of the frame. Itinerant residents will be relocated to Bulacan, a settlement in the north. Although the Pasig was cleaned up with major effort, plastic still flows from here into the river making the Philippines one of the top three countries the world a contributor to polluting the oceans with plastics.
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  • Plastic collectors in the Philippines.
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  • Trash pickers bring their plastic to Alexander Ocag Junkshop where Baseco Happy Land and Aroma earning 15 pesos a kilo for sorted clean plastic. Twenty-five percent of the waste of the Philippines is produced in Metro Manila.
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  • Piles of trash pollute the Pasig River in the Philippines.
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  • Piles of trash pollute the Pasig River in the Philippines.
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  • A farmer taps down a pile of sorghum before tarps are draped to protect the milo.  The grain elevator is full and excess is piled and covered for the winter.
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  • A field of sunflowers is in full bloom in summer months.Nebraska ranks 6th in the U.S. in sunflower production.
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  • Flamingos in a volcanic crater on Central Island in Lake Turkana.
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  • Crowds at the Churchgate Railway Station in Mumbai.
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  • Estero de Binondo stream in the Chinatown area of Manila is covered with itinerant homes. You can no longer see the stream in most areas because it is choked with plastic waste. The stream is actually on the left side of this photos.  These residents will be moved to Bulcan, a settlement in the north. Even though the Pasig was cleaned up with major effort, plastic still flows from these areas into that river which makes Philippines one of the top three countries that pollute the oceans with plastics.
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  • A recycling plant in San Francisco, California.
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  • A Ratha Yatra religious festival in temple town of Puri.
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  • Ferns in Tongass National Forest.
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  • Moss covered tree that was logged and continued to grow.
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  • Vine maples on forest floor in Tongass National Forest.
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  • Ferns in Tongass National Forest.
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  • Stacked planed wood in a sawmill.
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  • A haul of salmon.
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  • Logs are floated and will be loaded on a ship for export.
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  • A girl and ducks on a small taro farm on Maui.
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  • Taro plants wait to be planted.
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  • Heart-shaped taro plant leaves.
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  • A student picks up clothing to get dressed for class.
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  • Clusters of black eyed susan flowers and purple cone flowers.
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  • A shopping mall courtyard.
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  • A recycling plant in San Francisco, California.
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  • A recycling plant in San Francisco, California.
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  • A conveyor belt carries mixed plastic to an optical sorter.
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  • A San Francisco recycling plant handles 500 to 600 tons daily.
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  • A San Francisco recycling plant handles 500 to 600 tons daily.
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  • A recycling plant in San Francisco, California.
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  • A shop that sells plastics hangs it's wares outside the store.
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  • A woman packages plastic toy cars.
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  • A woman packages plastic toy cars.
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  • Plastic recycling in Bangladesh.
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  • In Dhaka, Bangladesh, laborers sort through a huge pile of discarded plastic bottles.
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  • In Dhaka, Bangladesh, laborers sort through a huge pile of discarded plastic bottles.
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  • Plastic that is sorted in the Dharavi Slums goes to China comes back as colorful artificial flowers in a market outside of Mumbai. This woman is shopping in the Dharavi slum through the rich array of colors for flowers for her wedding.<br />
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The slum was founded in 1882 during the British colonial era, and grew in part because of an expulsion of factories and residents from the peninsular city centre by the colonial government, and from the migration of poor rural Indians into urban Mumbai. For this reason, Dharavi is currently a highly multi-religious, multi-ethnic, and diverse settlement. Dharavi has an active informal economy in which numerous household enterprises employ many of the slum residents leather, textiles and pottery products are among the goods made inside Dharavi. The total annual turnover has been estimated at over US$1 billion.
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  • Plastic sorting in Mumbai's Dharavi slum.
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  • Plastic sorting in the Philippines.
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  • A trash collector on Jacinto-Vitas street in Baseco area.
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  • Piles of trash line the streets in the Philippines.
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  • A trash collector on Jacinto-Vitas street in Baseco area.
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  • Plastic bottles fill a recycling facility in Valenzuela, Philippines.
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  • Plastic bottles are shredded at a recycling facility in Valenzuela, Philippines.
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  • Piles of trash pollute the Estero de Binondo stream in Chinatown area of Manila.
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  • Piles of trash pollute the Estero de Binondo stream in Chinatown area of Manila.
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  • Piles of trash pollute the Estero de Binondo stream in Chinatown area of Manila.
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  • Plastic collectors in the Philippines.
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  • Estero de Binondo stream in the Chinatown area of Manila is covered with itinerant homes. You can no longer see the stream in most areas because it is choked with plastic waste. The stream is actually on the left side of this photos.  These residents will be moved to Bulcan, a settlement in the north. Even though the Pasig was cleaned up with major effort, plastic still flows from these areas into that river which makes Philippines one of the top three countries that pollute the oceans with plastics.
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  • Piles of trash pollute the Pasig River in the Philippines.
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  • In Dhaka, Bangladesh, a man adds to a huge pile of discarded plastic bottles.
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  • A conveyor belt carries mixed plastic to an optical sorter.<br />
Recology recovers 600 million pounds of recyclables each year and is the most advanced recycling plant on the planet. They invested 12 million USD last year for IR scanners and blowers that use puffs of air to separate different materials that are identified by the IR scanners. The USA has a recycling rate of 30 percent and with Recology's outreach and other programs they are at a 70 percent (of overall waste) being recycled. Robert Reed is main contact for Recology and he is a proponent of Zero Waste, which is being done more in Europe than USA. "Recycling," he says, "should be the last ditch effort."
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  • Cattle in a pen at a feedlot near Garden City, Kansas. <br />
The main purpose of feedlots is to help animals reach a certain weight as efficiently as possible. Through providing a steady, high energy diet and managing the cattle, they attempt to minimize health problems and stress. A criticism of feedlots is that they are overcrowded which creates more challenges for healthy animals.
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  • Grackles gather on a center-pivot sprinkler to feed on a newly harvested cotton field.<br />
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A half mile long center pivot has a well head at the center and rotates in a circle. Pivots were developed after WWII and allowed this area to recover from the dust bowl.
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  • Flamingos on Lake Turkana.
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  • Tens of thousand of flamingos feed on algae in a crater lake formed on Central Island, in Lake Turkana.
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  • Tens of thousand of flamingos feed on algae in a crater lake formed on Central Island, in Lake Turkana.
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  • Tens of thousand of flamingos feed on algae in a crater lake formed on Central Island, in Lake Turkana.
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  • Flamingos soar above Lake Turkana.
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  • These plastic flowers from China are in a street market in Mumbai. Plastic from the Dharavi slums goes to China as pellets and comes back as flowers.<br />
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The Dharavi slum was founded in 1882 during the British colonial era, and grew in part because of an expulsion of factories and residents from the peninsular city centre by the colonial government, and from the migration of poor rural Indians into urban Mumbai.<br />
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Dharavi has an active informal economy in which numerous household enterprises employ many of the residents.
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  • Plastic bottle caps are shredded at a recycling facility in Valenzuela, Philippines.
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  • Timber is stacked to be processed and loaded onto ships for export.
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  • Ferns carpet the forest floor in the Tongass National Forest.
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  • A man and woman package plastic toys.
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  • Bundles of plastic for recycling.
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  • A trash collector on Jacinto-Vitas street in Baseco area.
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  • Plastic bottle caps are shredded at a recycling facility in Valenzuela, Philippines.
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  • Plastic collectors in the Philippines.
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  • Piles of trash pollute the Pasig River in the Philippines.
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  • Piles of trash pollute the Pasig River in the Philippines.
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  • Plastic bottles move down the conveyer belt at Poland Spring where between 345 and 425 employees working at the Hollis, Maine site oversee an array of computers and the water bottle production line. The 838,000 square-foot facility is the largest bottled water plant in the world, turning out about 80 million cases of water every year. Some of the machines fill 1,200 bottles per minute. The plant has reduced the plastic in its half-liter bottles by 62 percent since 1994.
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  • Flamingos in a volcanic crater on Central Island in Lake Turkana.
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  • Tens of thousand of flamingos feed on algae in a crater lake formed on Central Island, in Lake Turkana.
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  • This settlement was built on top of the Estero de Binondo stream in the Chinatown area of Manila. These itinerant residents will be moved to a settlement in the north. There was a major effort to clean up the Pasig river, but the plastic still flows from these areas into that river which makes Philippines in the top three countries polluting the oceans with plastics. The Pasig is the second biggest source of plastic waste in the world. It puts 32,100 tons of plastic into the ocean per year.
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  • Men and boys dress in white sheep's fur costumes to celebrate Slovenia's traditional version of Carnival. In Ptuj, the oldest town in the Slovenia, they parade ringing bells to scare off evil spirits and chase away winter believed to bring spring and abundance to the land. Kurent is a mythological god of joy and wine and sometimes a creature with a magical instrument who persuades people to dance.
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  • Fur-costumed revelers at a spring festival surround a woman during their parade through the streets.  Men dressed in white sheep's fur don tall hats to celebrate Slovenia's version of Carnival. In Ptuj, the oldest town in the Slovenia, they ring bells to scare off evil spirits and to chase away winter which brings spring and abundance to the land. Kurent is a mythological god of joy and wine and sometimes a creature with a magical instrument who persuades people to dance.
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  • The Taku River flows out of the Coastal Range in British Columbia to 100 miles northeast of Juneau, Alaska. <br />
A world-class wilderness, the Taku River watershed contains some of the richest wildlife habitat in North America and is teeming with grizzlies, wolves, Stone’s sheep, moose, woodland caribou, migratory birds, and abundant populations of salmon.  The Taku is southeast Alaska’s top salmon-producing river with nearly 2 million wild salmon returning to the river annually.
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  • A steer is coaxed into its pen at a feedlot near Garden City, Kansas. <br />
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Sparse population, a semiarid climate, and abundant groundwater turned the southern High Plains into the world’s feedlot capital. A single quarter-pound hamburger requires about 460 gallons of water to raise and process the beef.<br />
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In the High Plains, water is about corn and corn is about beef. Feedlots will exist after the water dwindles then grain will be brought in from outside areas. Texas ranks first with the highest number of cattle on feed followed by Kansas and Nebraska. In rough terms–there’s a 1000 feet of water left under Nebraska, 200 feet under Kansas, and about 30 feet under Texas. If all the cows are put on one side of a scale and humans on another, there are 2.5 times more cattle than people. <br />
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Beef compared to other meats:  Five times the global warming contribution per calorie, 11 times more water, and 28 times as much land. Eating a pound of beef has more climatic impact than a gallon of gas. “When you add it all up, it comes up to about 14.5 percent of greenhouse gas comes from the animal agriculture sector. That’s bigger than all transportation combined,”  James Cameron
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