Households must separate recyclables from trash, hence the shortage and the need to import around 800,000 tons of garbage from other European countries. Now contrast this with the USA, where the EPA says that Americans recycled only 34% of their waste in 2010.This means that more than half of US household waste ended up in landfills in 2010, which makes a total of 136 million tons of garbage.The New York Times says that trash-burning facilities in the US only handle a small portion of garbage, and most of the burned trash ends up in landfills.On top of this, according to a recent study by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Americans throw away nearly half of their food, at a cost of roughly $165 billion per year.According toA mosquito-borne virus that caused a scare in Connecticut forced Saturday’s game between the Connecticut Huskies and the South Florida Bulls to be moved to the afternoon.

Eastern equine encephalitis has claimed the lives of at least two people in Connecticut this year and the mosquitos that carry the virus are most active from dusk until dawn.

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The scare forced the college football game between the Huskies and the Bulls to move from 7 p.m. ET to noon.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) virus is a “rare cause of brain infections. Only a few cases are reported in the United States each year. Most occur in eastern or Gulf Coast