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episode 25: Garbage
Trash, rubbish, waste, refuse...we have a lot of words for the gunk that goes on the truck, because whether we like it or not, humans make a lot of garbage. Get comfy with some grossness as we root around in garbage's past, present, and future. We're all on a path, you guys!
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Garbage
[The Scientific Definition]
Neptune balls
Laser broom
Wishcycling
[Trivia Question]
Eugene Poubelle garbage can ordinance in France
https://www.connexionfrance.com/article/Mag/French-Facts/Dustbins-are-named-after-French-recycling-innovator
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/poubelle
https://doodles.google/doodle/eugene-poubelles-190th-birthday/
[Fact Off]
Sulfur-crested cockatoos opening garbage cans because of social learning
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abe7808
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/963482
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(22)01285-4
Hermit crabs are using plastic trash as shells
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969723075885
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/hermit-crabs-using-trash-as-shells-across-the-world-scientists-find-180983701/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Waste-to-energy methods: power plants/incineration, gasification, landfill gas, anaerobic digestion
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652617317316?via%3Dihub
https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/biomass/waste-to-energy-in-depth.php
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780857090119500090
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5530419
https://www.epa.gov/lmop/basic-information-about-landfill-gas
https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate2804
https://www.epa.gov/agstar/how-does-anaerobic-digestion-work
[Butt One More Thing]
Poop composition of gull flocks that eat garbage from landfills
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004313541730489X?via%3Dihub
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/558545