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Environmental activism grow in Newbury Park
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Introduction It is all around us all the time, it has always been here, it is always changing and we only have one of it. This is not a riddle; it is our environment. While the majority of the waste thrown into the garbage bin ends up in a landfill, a portion of the…
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RePlanet needs to RePlan it
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RePlanet was California’s biggest recycling center chain, making up one-fifth of all centers, including Newbury Park, before its August shutdown. The lack of government attention towards environmental preservation has led to unsustainable recycling in the U.S. In turn, this has left recycling centers and the communities they affect devastated. Without dependable recycling returns to…
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Hands on Earth educates the community with staggering trash and recycling research
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“It’s estimated that the average individual creates around 4 pounds of trash per day, which adds up to nearly 1,500 pounds of trash per year,” according to recyclenation.com. On Oct. 20, the Hands on Earth club met at the high school in order to kick off their trash audit event. Katie Rose, senior, attended…
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Recycling policies remain unclear
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Our campus is filled with blue recycling bins in nearly every classroom; however, there is no guarantee the waste in these bins will be recycled. James Wei, head of maintenance, explains that if items are marked in a recycling container, his staff has been instructed to not touch it. “With the creation of the…