Topic: Recycling
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Urban Wonk
Inside the Surprisingly Lucrative World of Cardboard Theft
With the help of a rental truck, you too can cash in on the multimillion-dollar cardboard-rustling business.
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Videos
Recycling Cars Is Actually Kind of Bad-Ass
There's fun and profit in having giant shredding rotors tear the flesh off deceased vehicles.
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The Suburban Ripple Effect of Sustainable Cities
When major cities embrace climate and energy initiatives, the communities around them inevitably follow.
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Freaky Furniture of the Day: Human Hair Chairs
Thanks to Swedish designer Ola Giertz, the stuff that sprouts from your head now can be a place to rest your butt.
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Turning Old Beer Bottles Into Garden Mulch
Is there anything high-speed flexible impactors can't flail into gold?
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Why This Chicago Non-Profit Wants Your Trash
They train the disadvantaged to transform garbage into beautiful furniture.
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Democracy in America
This Week in Bans: Florida City Outlaws Scary Ex-Employee
Also, a U.K. town takes care of a snowball-throwing teenager, and California cities ban mobile billboards and force medical-marijuana growers indoors.
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The Big Fix
Can Hong Kong Solve its Garbage Crisis?
The cramped city-state is only years away from running out of landfill space.
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Keeping an Eye On (and In) Recycling Bins
A Florida town tests a monitoring system that makes sure its residents are recycling properly.
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Urban Wonk
How New Orleans Got Its Recycling Back
Why it took six years for the city to solve its waste problem
