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Compared to the rest of the world, the waste and recycling stats in the U.S. just cant compete. Although the U.S. is just 4 percent of the worlds total population, the country produces 12 percent of the total solid waste of 2.1 billion tons per year. When res…

A separate survey by YouGov on behalf of Keep Britain Tidy and Brita UK, also found that just half of businesses are offering recycling services in the workplace, while four in 10 are doing nothing to reduce plastic waste, a new survey has found. The study o…

Share to facebookShare to twitterShare to linkedin The next generation of social entrepreneurs   Getty For years, it seemed that people who wanted to do good in the world thought they needed to create a non-prof…

The world has a trash problem, and a new report out Tuesday reminds us just how much Americans contribute. Turns out that while we create the most waste in the world, were one of the worst countries at recycling it. The reportpublished by Verisk Maplecroft, …

A man from just outside the Hudson Valley was bitten by an insect that spreads a potentially fatal virus. On Tuesday, the New Jersey Department of Health confirmed the states first human case of West Nile Virus in a Hunterdon County man in his 70s. On June …

I didnt learn to drive until I was 27. I grew up in cities, so there wasnt a great need, and more importantly I was stone cold terrified: when I tried to drive my then-boyfriends car at age 18, I screamed bloody murder every time I braked and shut my…

Apple’s latest “That's iPhone” ads are out, highlighting the superior security features of iOS devices as well as Apple’s dedication to protecting the environment. The first two clips highlight the App Store approval process for each app as well as iMessage’s…

Plastics is totally my comfort zone. That confessiona decidedly minority sentiment in 2019came from Paola Antonelli, a senior curator of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art. She was sitting in her office (cluttered but chic, full of colorful o…

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Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Medical and recreational cannabis is projected to be a $13 billion dollar industry in the US in 2019, which has investors and eager entrepreneurs alike clambering to get in on the market. Seeming…