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☆ Recycling wind turbine blades is nearly impossible. Veolia North America thinks it can keep them out of landfills.
  + stars: | 2023-02-17 | by ( Elizabeth Mccauley | Katie Nixdorf | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: 1 min
But most of the cement industry's emissions come from heating limestone in kilns, so this process probably won't make much of a dent. A furnace used in industrial cement production. Artur Osypian/Getty ImagesCement factories burn the turbine blades for fuel — replacing some of the coal the factories usually use. Veolia says its product burns cleaner.
☆ Filling Cambodian lakes with sand creates pricey new land. It also displaces families.
  + stars: | 2023-02-03 | by ( Katie Nixdorf | Noah Lewis | Andy Ball | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +1 min
Sand is the most exploited natural resource on Earth, after water. The Cambodian government is using sand dredged from the Mekong to fill in lakes around Phnom Penh. One community is fighting to save their homes on the city's largest natural lake. In Cambodia, the government is using sand to fill in lakes around its capital, Phnom Penh, to create prime real estate for villas and shopping malls. Now, one community is fighting to save their homes on the city's largest natural lake.
☆ A woman who mistakenly visited an anti-abortion crisis pregnancy center said she was met with pushback for seeking an abortion: 'I just was not ready, and words can't make you ready for that'
  + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Hannah Getahun | Isabella Zavarise | Katie Nixdorf | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +12 min
Crisis pregnancy centers outnumber abortion clinics in the US. When she got to The Keim Center in Virginia Beach, it didn't look or smell like a medical clinic — it was too nice, too inviting. Unbeknownst to her, Estefanía had walked into one of the 2,000 crisis pregnancy centers, or CPCs, in the US. "Most of the folks that work in crisis pregnancy centers are people that are on a mission to end abortion." Researchers from Middlebury College have estimated that the extinction of national abortion rights means the number of people living closer to CPCs than abortion clinics will double, and CPCs will outnumber abortion clinics 1-to-5.
☆ Meet the Amazon warehouse workers paying the price for fast, free shipping
  + stars: | 2022-12-05 | by ( Katie Nixdorf | Noah Lewis | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +1 min
The serious injury rate at Amazon warehouses was double that of other distribution centers in 2021. Workers suffer musculoskeletal disorders, or MSDs, which are caused by repetitive movements. Amazon spent $300 million on safety initiatives to try and become "Earth's safest place to work." Loading Something is loading. We accessed rare video footage from inside one of the most dangerous Amazon warehouses in the US and spoke to former employees to understand the true cost of Amazon's push for speed.
☆ How anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers target women looking for abortions
  + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Katie Nixdorf | Noah Lewis | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +1 min
There are more than three crisis pregnancy centers for every abortion clinic in the US. CPCs don't offer abortions, but many show up in searches related to abortion services. Doctors say these centers cause confusion and elevate people's mistrust of the medical system. Anti-abortion activists say these centers will help women facing unplanned pregnancies in places where abortion is now illegal. But some women who have visited a CPC thinking it was an abortion clinic say they feel misled by the center's online advertising.
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