He had transformed Waste Management from a two garbage truck company into a multi-billion dollar business, and after leaving Waste Management in 1984, he was looking around for another opportunity.
In a different answer to rising sea levels, Dutch studio Whim Architects produced plans for floating, self-sustaining homes made from plastic waste from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Much of the pollution that exists in the garbage patches is plastic waste that gradually breaks down into short lengths of polymer which absorb other pollutants and accelerate their uptake into the marine food-chain.
It holds up to five times the volume of conventional waste receptacles, dramatically reducing the need for garbage pickups.
After all, as businesses, we can choose to run them however we wish, and forcing people to be who they, in fact, are in real life may clean up the nagging annoyance of garbage comments that contribute nothing and waste everybody's time.
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Garbage of the world consists chiefly of kitchen waste, textile waste and paper which can be converted into fuel for homes and industries.
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With its strong cash position Waste Management has bought back shares and is looking to acquire smaller garbage haulers.
Billionaire Wayne Huizenga built his first fortune from garbage truck he operated in South Florida that evolved into Waste Management.
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Michigan's Department of Environmental Quality insists the issue is a tempest in a garbage bag, pointing out that 80% of solid waste going into landfills last year was Michigan's own and that total waste fell by 5% last year.
En route to Australia, Plastiki will sail through the infamous North Pacific Gyre, now home to "The Great Garbage Patch, " named due to the high levels of waste that have been drawn there by ocean currents.
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