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The largest landfill solar project in North America, a 25.6 megawatt (MW) solar farm in Mount Olive, New Jersey, is online – which means yet another dumpsite has been turned into a revenue-generating, clean energy asset. UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your region for personalized solar estimates. Tesla now offers price matching, so it’s important to shop for the best quotes. Click here to learn more and get your quotes. — *ad. The…

During COP27 we’re posting a high-resolution image of a methane cloud every day to highlight how common releases of the potent greenhouse gas are. Scientists say reducing emissions of methane, which has 84 times the warming power of carbon dioxide during its first two decades in the atmosphere, is one of the fastest and cheapest ways to cool the planet. Throughout COP27, Bloomberg Green will exclusively publish new satellite images of methane releases around the world, in collaboration with emissions monitoring firm…

Electric utility FirstEnergy Corp., which serves most of northern West Virginia, is going to repurpose a former coal ash landfill for a utility-scale solar farm. The Natural Resources Defense Council explains what coal ash is, and notes that it’s the US’s second-largest waste stream behind household trash: Coal ash is a general term – it refers to whatever waste is leftover after coal is combusted, usually in a coal-fired power plant. It contains arsenic, mercury, lead, and many other heavy metals. Coal ash is…

Customer orders multiple items, many of which may be returned. Credit: Maridav/Shutterstock Fashion has a notorious environmental footprint, accounting for up to 10% of global carbon dioxide output. This is exacerbated by a fast fashion business model which encourages the frequent purchase of low-priced and non-durable items.…

Killer robot dogs will soon help crypto enthusiasts to find their lost Bitcoin tokens Since the inception of Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency has evolved and is now recognized as the perfect replacement for traditional assets like gold, real estate, and stocks. In fact, the popularity of Bitcoin grew so much that Bitcoiners started referring to the token as digital gold. But gold is valuable and expensive, be it virtual or physical. Recently, a man named James Howells, made headlines after he accidentally threw away…

Photo: Peter Macdiarmid (Getty Images)You gotta hand it to some people for being impetuous even in the face of extraordinary odds. Imagine looking for a single hard drive amidst a literal heap of trash. Well, that’s been one UK man’s goal for nearly a decade after he accidentally lost the chance of being an early crypto millionaire by chucking the wrong disk drive into the bin.But now he’s got a new plan, and it involves… (checks notes…) robot dogs. Right, I take back any sense of compassion for his plight.Former IT…

Timelapse of plastic degradation. A new enzyme variant can break down plastics that typically take centuries to degrade in just a matter of hours to days.A new enzyme variant can break down environment-throttling plastics that typically take centuries to degrade in just a matter of hours to days. It was  created by chemical engineers and scientists at The University of Texas at AustinThis discovery, published on April 27, 2022, in the journal Nature, could help solve one of the world’s biggest environmental problems: what…

In 2019, the United States sent an average of US$7.2 billion dollars worth of plastic to landfill, according to new estimates from the Department of Energy (DOE).When considering the price of manufacturing, marketing and processing all that trashed material, the costs to the economy are significant. Nor does that consider the environmental price of plastic pollution.  While landfills are often considered the cheapest way to dispose of waste, in many ways that's a shortsighted approach. Setting up a system of recycling …