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Fenceline (or frontline) communities are residential areas that sit next to high polluting facilities that emit pollutants like noise, light, odours, chemicals, and even traffic.
Lynn Jacobs explains that less than a kilometer from her home and across from the KahnawŠ:ke Survival (High) School are waste management facilities, including one that recycles plastic battery casings.
“In the summer, we smell plastic burning odours because the process of the recycling is, it gets shredd…

Sacrifice Zones: Life along the fenceline between the land and industry
Lynn Jacobs opens a gate to the backyard of her small homestead, taking slow strides

"Hungry bugs and disappearing bioplastics hold key to ending plastic waste crisis, say scientists"
#Plastic #Plastics #Environment

Hungry bugs and disappearing bioplastics hold key to ending plastic waste crisis, say scientists
Scientists are working with microbes found in Australia's unique ecosystem to create bioplastics which break down in land, soil and water. The research aims to tackle one of the most pressing global issues—single-use plastic food packaging: a significant feature of the plastic waste crisis and a special focus for Plastic Free July.

While the rare earth market is dominated by China, Canada also has some of the largest reserves in the world.
But new rare earth mining projects have to balance the need for these materials with the environmental impacts that mining has on the land. 
Instead of starting from scratch, the University of Alberta and Calgary-based CVW CleanTech are trying to mine these valuable substances from tailings, a waste product of open-pit oilsands mining.
Previously known as Titanium …

New-age prospectors finding rare earth elements in tailings from Alberta oilsands | CBC News
Rare earth elements are a key part of the transition to a green economy. From magnets in wind turbines to batteries in electric vehicles, they’re needed for technology that is increasingly in demand.

#Federal charges against key participants involved in #Oakland #Waste processing proposal at old #Army base not helping progress of project amidst detrit…

California Waste Solutions — key player in Oakland FBI case — loses land deal at former Army Base
City officials say California Waste Solutions blew deadlines to build a new facility at the former Oakland Army Base. Environmental advocates say this is bad for West Oakland residents.