Recycling

As an online shopper, recycling cardboard boxes is probably the most annoying (but necessary) routines to engage in. Youve got the joy of opening something you just bought from a multi-billion dollar corporation, but the onus is on you, the customer, to clean…

As an online shopper, recycling cardboard boxes is probably the most annoying (but necessary) routines to engage in. Youve got the joy of opening something you just bought from a multi-billion dollar corporation, but the onus is on you, the customer, to clean…

The Case Against Paper Straws Paper straws are still a single-use, disposable consumer item, Annie Lowrey wrote last month —a greener option than plastic, but not a green one. Annie Lowrey’s article on the shortcomings of paper straws provides a nuanced look …

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In 2018, on New Years Day, the world of trash changed forever. Before that fateful morning, the US was sending 4,000 shipping containers full of its recyclable waste to China every dayalmost three-quarters of all the countrys recyclables. And for years, Chin…

The UK Treasury is making £70m available to fund an additional 3,000 rapid charging points for electric vehicles, doubling the UK total to 5,000. The money comes from a £400m fund to improve the UK's charging network. The pot will be managed by "private sect…

China was the recycling mecca of the worldthe country where 70% of the world's plastic waste went to be broken down and reuseduntil early last year, when the government decided to block the import of materials like metal, steel, and plastic, claiming that the…

Jerri-Lynn here. One quibble with this post: It seems to assume that recycling, were it only to be done properly, would solve the worlds plastics problem. Whereas as Ive written here,here, and here, the recycling fairy isnt going to save the day. Instead, the…

If you wanted to really mess with the world's food production, a good place to start would be in Morocco. They don't grow much here, but it is home to mines containing most of the world's known reserves of phosphate rock, the main source of the nutrient phosp…

I have always liked Marina Abramovic, from her earliest works to the latest ones. Many who knew her in the legendary early years of bitter struggle now resent her grand fame and success. They consider her commercialized, cosmopolitan, a celebrity artist recy…