Most everyone views their trips to the dump as a once-or-twice a year chore. It’s in, out and home again with hardly a thought given to the place you just dumped your old couch or leftovers from your kitchen renovation. But landfills are quickly becoming centres of innovation when it comes to turning what we throw away into energy. Edmonton has had a landfill gas operation since 1992 and it was the first in Western Canada to turn old garbage into a new resource. Learn how it’s done this week at http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/epis…

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Tracking your plastic: Exposing recycling myths (Marketplace)
Investigative journalists go undercover overseas, posing as recycling brokers, to uncover the hidden truths of the global plastic recycling trade. Their findings expose Malaysian companies