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  2. List of environmental dates - Wikipedia

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    International Day of Forests: March 21 World Planting Day [29] [30] [31] March 21 World Wood Day [32] March 21 World Water Day: March 22 International Seal Day [33] March 22 World Meteorological Day: March 23 International Day of Zero Waste [34] March 30 World Aquatic Animal Day [35] April 3 World Rat Day [36] [37] [38] April 4 International ...

  3. World Cleanup Day - Wikipedia

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    World Cleanup Day includes litter cleanup and waste mapping activities spanning every time zone. Environmental cleanup events are held in nearly every country until concluding near the international date line in Hawaii and American Samoa. From 2024, World Cleanup Day has been declared an official UN holiday, and added to the official UN ...

  4. International Waste Working Group - Wikipedia

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    The International Waste Working Group (IWWG) is a registered not-for-profit international waste organisation established in 2002 to serve as a forum for the scientific and professional community, aiming to provide an intellectual platform to encourage and support integrated and sustainable waste management and to promote practical scientific development in the field.

  5. Waste picker - Wikipedia

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    Waste picker incomes vary vastly by location, form of work, and gender. Some waste pickers live in extreme poverty, but many others earn multiple times their country's minimum wage. Recent studies indicate that waste pickers in Belgrade, Serbia, earn approximately US$3 per day, [11] while waste pickers in Cambodia typically earn $1 per day. [12]

  6. 'American Pickers' came to Peoria for a recent episode. Here ...

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    A Peoria homestead will be featured in an episode of "American Pickers" airing at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 28, on the History Channel. All told, the pickers drove away with over 20 items at a price ...

  7. International waste - Wikipedia

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    Along with autoclaving and incineration, Canada also allows international waste to be buried in a landfill, however the landfill must be approved the waste must be buried. The landfill must be 0.5 km from any livestock, precautions must be taken to prevent animals from entering, and the waste must be buried under 1.8 km of non-international waste.

  8. International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste

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    The main aim of the day is to raise awareness to the importance of food loss and waste related problems and their possible solutions at all levels, and also to promote global efforts and collective action towards meeting the Sustainable Development Goal Target 12.3, which targets to halve per capita food waste at the retail and consumer level ...

  9. Informal waste collection - Wikipedia

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    The income of waste pickers is paradoxically often above the poverty threshold of US$1/day and may even exceed the country's minimum income: In Romania, a teenager earned an average of 125-300 euros per month when the minimum wage was $70; in Dar es Salaam, an adult scavenger earned an average of US$55 per month in 2004 when the minimum wage ...