1,000,000 pounds of trash pulled from California's waterways – including a grand piano!


	1,000,000 pounds of trash pulled from California's waterways – including a grand piano!

Lexica

9-21-2009 2:49 PM

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california, environment, sustainability, pollution, activism

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9-21-2009 5:08 PM

aklimento

I getting pleasure to separate my garbage for paper, plastic, metal and glass. Actually, not much left to trow, and even this stuff can be utilized as compost (that is my plans

). Not sure how carefully it is recycled, but that is already somewhere beyond me.

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