Recycling

Apple sues an Ontario recycling partner, Excel may have caused the loss of 16,000 COVID-19 tests in England, and Spotify has a new feature.It’s all the tech news that’s popular right now. Welcome to Hashtag Trending! It’s Tuesday, October 6, and I’m your host Baneet Braich.=====Apple is suing an Ontario…

Apple in January sued the Canadian arm of Global Electric Electronic Processing (GEEP) for allegedly reselling roughly 100,000 iPhones, iPads, and Apple Watches that were supposed to be broken up and recycled. The lawsuit, first reported last week by The Logic, a paywalled Canadian tech publication, reportedly prompted a countersuit…

Forty-nine percent of West Virginians are “worried” about global warming, and 64 percent think citizens should be doing more to address it. That’s in the state that’s least worried about climate change—everywhere else, the numbers are higher still. Getting people to care about climate change isn’t the primary problem anymore (although…

Business Newsday Thursday 1 October 2020In this file photo, Lesley Bernard and her daughter, Kaitlyn tend to their crops. organic food production and more efficient ways of getting produce to consumers are among green business trends. - Antony ScullyGreen Consumer Day is commemorated annually on September 28. The concept of…

Tory rebels denounce Johnson’s ‘big brother’ restrictions Tory MPs have accused Boris Johnson of enacting “big brother” measures as part of recent coronavirus legislation. A string of new offences, which were not subject to consultation, include penalties of £4,000 for refusal to self-isolate and a ban on pubs playing loud…

Australia could almost double the amount of soft plastics recycled if two major road projects in each state used 1.5 per cent plastic content.Australian Council of Recycling chief Pete Shmigel says more must be done to ensure governments buy more recycled materials, and wants roads agencies to line up projects…

This article was created in partnership with the National Geographic Society. In December 2018, Great Britain's Royal Statistical Society named the core fact in this story—that only about nine percent of all plastic ever made has likely been recycled— its statistic of the year. Mass production of plastics, which began…

As prescription drug costs skyrocket in the US, thousands of people are forced to forgo lifesaving medications -- all while manufacturers and health care facilities systematically destroy perfectly good, surplus pills. Kiah Williams shares how SIRUM -- a nonprofit that delivers unused medications to families who need them most --…

OECD countries have agreed to update rules on the export of hazardous plastic waste for recycling in line with international changes so that advance consent from destination countries will be required ahead of shipping. However, they did not reach consensus on updated arrangements for the export of non-hazardous plastic waste.…

This post has been updated with a correction. It turns out that the reason there’s so much plastic shit in the ocean isn’t that you haven’t bought a metal straw yet (me either). NPR and PBS Frontline published a bombshell investigation on Friday about how oil and gas executives knowingly…