Recycling

I sometimes think that if you could look in the safe behind Jeff Bezos desk, instead of the sports almanac from Back to the Future youd find an Encyclopedia of Retail, written in maybe 1985. There would be Post-It notes on every page, and every one of those n…

Cities and towns aren't quite sure what to do with your plastic bags and shrink wrap. These items, like many forms of plastic, often can't be recycled because they don't fetch a decent price or contain chemical properties that make them difficult to repurp…

"I want to thank JB for his fundamental role in creating and building Tesla," Musk said during the call. "If we hadn't had lunch in 2003, Tesla wouldn't exist, basically," Musk added. Straubel described his time at Tesla as an adventurous 16 years. "I'm not d…

Last fall, at New York Fashion Week, tie-dye was absolutely everywhere: Everyone from Prada to Stella McCartney to Proenza Schouler sent models down the catwalk in hippie-inspired gowns and T-shirts. But for those of us who can’t afford to drop $2,000 on embr…

Sri Lanka has ordered the return of hundreds of tons of trash to Britain, the latest move in Southeast Asia's campaign to end its role as a dumping ground for garbage made in the West. According to Sri Lankan officials, the stinking containers include moun…

Natasha Franck, cofounder and CEO of fashion technology company EON, believes we will one day be able to throw our old shirts in the recycling bin along with our plastic bottles and glass jars. At the recycling center, those textiles will be sent to a machine…

Natasha Franck, cofounder and CEO of fashion technology company EON, believes we will one day be able to throw our old shirts in the recycling bin along with our plastic bottles and glass jars. At the recycling center, those textiles will be sent to a machine…

Sherwood Forest Recycling has been passed on to the next generation, and the business has been given a new name. Cole Sherwood took ownership of the newly renamed Sherwood Recycling Inc. July 1 from his grandfather and business founder, Robert Sherwood. Col…

The inaugural Heavy Metal Knitting World Championship were an unqualified success, with competitors from the US, Russia, Japan and beyond converging on Joensuu, Finland to thrash and knit: competitors such as Woolfumes, Bunny Bandit and 9" Needles thrashed to…

Back in 2017, The Nation ran a superb, in-depth story on "heirs' property," a legalized form of property theft that allows primarily rich white developers to expropriate land owned by the descendants' of Black slaves. Last month, Paul Hansmeier was sentenced…