Podcasts
What goes in must come out: The prospects of drinking treated wastewater
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Drinking wastewater isn’t as far-fetched as you might think. Question is, just how much of the “waste” part can be removed at the treatment plant?
Waste
The Green Room: Washtenaw County ponders reusable bags
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Barbara Lucas for WEMU’s The Green Room investigates why Michigan’s Washtenaw County is looking into a reusable bag ordinance.
Waste
Passenger’s butt gets driver’s butt in hot water
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Wisconsin high court’s littering decision fell on anniversary of littering incident that inspired Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree.”
Waste
Maps show proposed nuclear waste travels in Great Lakes region
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Anti-nuclear groups mapped the potential travels of nuclear waste in the Great Lakes region if a waste site were approved in Nevada.
Waste
Michigan plan to deregulate chemicals upsets environmentalists
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Tensions between the Michigan legislature and environmentalists have grown after the Department of Environmental Quality proposed deregulating 500 chemicals. Regulators say the move benefits public health by targeting the most serious chemicals threats.
Waste
Mr. Great Lakes on microbead alternatives, fish passage, recycling rates
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Mr. Great Lakes discusses discusses alternatives to microbeads, Frankenmuth fish passage and Michigan’s recycling rate.
Recreation
Kiteboarder and swimsuit designer celebrates Halloween.
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Kiteboarding tricks are treats.
Waste
Asbestos probe leads to jail term in Ohio
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Company president gets 30 days in jail, 240 days community service and must pay restitution.
Waste
Documentary searches for hope in nuclear waste
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The film explores the science and controversy of Canada’s search for a Great Lakes-area underground storage site for spent nuclear fuel that could take 250,000 years to safely decay.
Waste
Great Lakes states are in ecological debt
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The nation hit Ecological Deficit Day recently, thanks in part to the Great Lakes states that use more resources than they regenerate.