Garbage | SciShow Tangents Podcast

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Trash, rubbish, waste, refuse...we have a lot of words for the gunk that goes on the truck, because whether we like it or not, humans make a lot of garbage. Get comfy with some grossness as we root around in garbage's past, present, and future. We're all on a path, you guys!

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Garbage

[The Scientific Definition]

Neptune balls

Laser broom

Wishcycling

[Trivia Question]

Eugene Poubelle garbage can ordinance in France
https://www.connexionfrance.com/artic...
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/poubelle
https://doodles.google/doodle/eugene-...

[Fact Off]

Sulfur-crested cockatoos opening garbage cans because of social learning
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s...
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-relea...
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/...

Hermit crabs are using plastic trash as shells
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-...

[Ask the Science Couch]

Waste-to-energy methods: power plants/incineration, gasification, landfill gas, anaerobic digestion
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/b...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/...
https://www.epa.gov/lmop/basic-inform...
https://www.nature.com/articles/nclim...
https://www.epa.gov/agstar/how-does-a...

[Butt One More Thing]

Poop composition of gull flocks that eat garbage from landfills
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-relea...


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